Taika Waititi’s Flash Gordon Film Might Be Live-Action Now

Filmmaker Taika Waititi is concerned with so many issues it’s very straightforward to overlook one or two. For instance, you most likely bear in mind he’s making Thor: Love and Thunder, and he’s imagined to do a Star Wars film. You could even know he’s a nasty man within the new Ryan Reynolds film Free Guy and produces What We Do within the Shadows, which is returning for season three. But did you keep in mind that again in the summertime of 2019 information broke that he was engaged on a Flash Gordon animated movie? Well, it did, and in the present day there’s an replace.

Collider spoke with producer John Davis, who’s engaged on the challenge with Waititi, and he mentioned the filmmaker’s imaginative and prescient for the movie is now not animated. “Taika is writing it,” the producer mentioned. “It was a movie that was a huge influence on him growing up. It is one of his favorite movies. He initially said to me, ‘Let’s do it animated.’ I said, ‘Okay.’ Then we got into it and started developing it and he said, ‘No, let’s do it live-action.’ I said, ‘Even better.’”

It’s one factor to say that, it’s one other to search out just a few years to do it, particularly with a filmmaker as busy and in demand as Waititi. But Davis believes he has an ace up his sleeve within the wrestle to get him to direct. “Well, he’s writing it. So when somebody writes a script that they’re going to direct, they’re obviously going to really like the script, right? So you get a big leg up, right?” Davis mentioned. “A lot of times, you go to a huge director with somebody else’s script and he’s got to reinvent it. They’ve got to make it their own. They’ve got to… whatever. This is going to be Taika-ready.”

What does that imply precisely? How will Taika’s model be totally different and distinctive from the 1980 basic movie, which itself tailored a Nineteen Thirties serial that influenced virtually everybody in sci-fi together with George Lucas? “He has the most fantastically interesting vision for this movie,” Davis mentioned. “It harkens in a very interesting way to the original conception from the comics.”

io9 reached out to a consultant for Waititi who wasn’t conscious of the information and no additional remark or clarification was obtainable as of publication. We’ll be sure you replace if we hear extra. But for now, know that within the coming years, not solely could we get a Taika Waititi Star Wars film, we would get his model of the factor that influenced that too. Cue the Queen song.

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