SCI-FI: SG-1 is out, Flash Gordon is in

[Ranger REG]

Source: http://www.geekmonthly.com/news/2007/01/06/new-flash-gordon-scifiseries/

Just please don't give me that "Flash Gordon, Quarterback, New York Jets" crap again.

 

[trancejeremy]

Well, I imagine if they tried that these days, the NFL would want $100 million. He might be an XFL player this time...

Pretty cool new - I love the movie. I hope they don't try to turn it into a soap opera like BSG though. Or change up the gender roles.

 

[Tonguez]

Pretty cool new - I love the movie. I hope they don't try to turn it into a soap opera like BSG though. Or change up the gender roles.

I dunno maybe they could add in a love triangle between Flash, Dale and Dr. Hannah Zarkov

 

[sckeener]

from the article

Despite critical acclaim, SciFi’s stellar Battlestar Galactica re-imagination has had continued ratings erosion which network honchos believe may be attributable to the show’s dark tone. It has been known for awhile that SciFi has been looking to develop “lighter” properties in the vein of their Stargate series, although it is expected that Flash Gordon will have a far more serious tone than the campy 1980 film starring Sam Jones, Melody Anderson, Timothy Dalton, Max Van Sydow and Topol.​

BSG ratings have fallen? that sucks. I love the dark themes...

how light are they going to make Flash Gordon? SG1 runs the gamut on light to dark...

 

[trancejeremy]

I just hope it has a lot of spandex. For the women, anyway.

 

[jaerdaph]

Just please don't give me that "Flash Gordon, Quarterback, New York Jets" crap again.

Chad Pennington is no Flash Gordon, that's for sure.

 

[Storm Raven]

BSG ratings have fallen? that sucks. I love the dark themes...

Perhaps if they stopped with so much of the mediocre soap opera and got on to more actual science fiction, the ratings wouldn't fall. Its not the dark themse that are sapping the show's vitality, it is the now pervasive "Starbuck and Apollo as star-crossed lovers" thing.

 

[Ranger REG]

I dunno maybe they could add in a love triangle between Flash, Dale and Dr. Hannah Zarkov

"Hannah"?

More like a love trois than a love triangle.

 

[Ranger REG]

Pretty cool new - I love the movie. I hope they don't try to turn it into a soap opera like BSG though. Or change up the gender roles.

Nah, they should try to modernize the 1930's film serial rather than remake the 1980's film.

 

[horacethegrey]

For this series to succeed, it must use the Queen theme in some form, end of story.

Kidding aside, reports of this new series has me interested, though I do have some reservations. I hope they don't make it all grim n' dark like Battlestar Galactica, even though I am a fan of the aformentioned show, I see no need to reimagine Flash Gordon like that. I also hope that Stephen Sommers is not associated with this in any form, as he was attached to make a Flash movie at one point. I've quite had enough with his brand of crap.

But I wonder what final form this show will take. Will it be a retro scifi cliffhanger tv serial? Or will it be a modern interpretation, much in the way Star Wars was in the 70's?