The FLASH GORDON Movie Will Be Helmed By OVERLORD Director Julius Avery

20th Century Fox is moving forward with their Flash Gordon movie and they hired Overlord director Julius Avery to helm it! Obviously the studio likes what he did with Overlord, which has yet to be released in theaters, but it looks bat-shit crazy!

At one point Kingsman director Matthew Vaughn was looking to direct the Flash Gordon movie, but it looks like he’s just going to produce it now. With all of the Kingsman films that he’s got in development, I guess he just doesn’t have the time.

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.

I'm a huge fan of Flash Gordon, and I'm pretty excited about what how this new film turns out, especially with the visual effects tech that filmmakers have to work with these days. I really hope that they capture the amazing tone and style of Alex Raymond.

Thor screenwriter Mark Protosevich was hired to write the script and it has been said that “this will not be like any version of Flash Gordon we've seen on film before."

I have no idea if Avery is the right filmmaker for the job. Before Overlord he directed a film called Son of a Gun, which was ok. Deadline says that Avery “grew up in Australia loving the Flash Gordon comic. He pitched his take and the studio sparked to it and set him.”

We’ll I’ll be looking forward to seeing what his vision of Flash Gordon is and I hope that he gives the fans something that they’ll love and appreciate.