Taika Waititi is Going To Help Develop an Animated FLASH GORDON Film For Fox/Disney!

I’ve got some super exciting Flash Gordon movie news to share with you! Thor: Ragnarok director Taika Waititi is said to be taking “a crack” at a Flash Gordon animated film!

Deadline says that Waititi is signing on to write and direct the film, but at this point his reps are saying that “it’s too early to gauge exactly what his role would be.” But, this is a project that he is helping develop and I would love it if he actually came on board to write and direct it!

I’ve always thought that Flash Gordon would make for an awesome sci-fi fantasy animated film, so the fact that this is the direction that Fox/Disney is looking to take the project is exciting! The film has been in development for years and Kingsman director Matthew Vaughn and Overlord director Julius Avery have been the most recent filmmakers to be attached to it.

Flash Gordon was created in 1934 by iconic artist Alex Raymond, and the story follows Dale Arden and the mad scientist Hans Zasrkov, as they end up on the planet Mongo fighting a tyrannical ruler named Ming the Merciless.

It’ll be really interesting to see what comes of this project now that Waititi is involved with developing it as an animated feature. I could see it being something super cool and radically epic!

If you want to watch an awesome animated Flash Gordon fan film, click here.