Sony Pictures is apparently in a hurry to get their big-screen adaptation of the pulp science-fiction icon on the silver screen after winning a pricey bidding war. So far, writers Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless and director, Breck Eisner, are attached to the project.
Flash Gordon is the creation of Alex Raymond and has had a sordid multi-media career. Perhaps most popular are the 1930's-era serials and the original, vintage comic strips, which appeared in newspapers. Accordingly, Flash Gordon is said to have been created to compete with established pulp sci-fi, comic strip adventurer, Buck Rogers. Raymond is legendary in the sequential art field for his strides in bringing photorealism to the forefront of the form, an approach later cemented by Neal Adams and others. Photorealism is, of course, now de rigeur for the medium.
Currently, independent master of the sequential art form, Dave Sim, uses the technique - as directly inspired by Raymond and many of his contemporaries - to maximum (and satirical) effect in his Glamourpuss.
© C Harris Lynn, 2008
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The Flash Gordon movie has been assigned two writers. It certainly appears things are a go, at this point.
I know it won't happen, but I thought the actor from the short-lived Sci-Fi series made a good Flash and wouldn't mind seeing him in the role.
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