Matthew Vaughn In Talks to Direct FLASH GORDON
Matthew Vaughn, the director of films such as Kick-Ass, X-Men: First Class, and Kingsman: The Secret Service, is currently in negotiations to direct the Flash Gordon reboot! If anyone can make a badass Flash Gordon movie, it's Vaughn. I really enjoy his directing and storytelling style. It's very unique, and bringing that uniqueness to the Flash Gordon universe would be amazing.
20th Century Fox picked up the rights to the classic comic about a year ago with the help of producer John Davis, who spent more than a year trying to get the rights from the Hearst Corporation. Seeing that Vaughn has a solid relationship with the studio, I'm pretty sure this will end up being a done deal.
Flash Gordon was created in 1934 by artist Alex Raymond, and the sci-fi adventurer follows the title character who ends up on a planet called Mongo with Dale Arden and a mad scientist named Hans Zasrkov. While there, they battle the planet's tyrannical ruler, Ming the Merciless.
The script for the film was written by J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay (Star Trek 3). It was recently reported that the movie might end up being a sequel to the classic 1980 movie, but that has yet to be confirmed. I'd rather them just start from scratch, but we'll see how it plays out. What do you all think of the possibility of Vaughn helming this project?
Source: THR