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1980 pic by Mike Hodges

Flash Gordon
Flash gordon movie poster.jpg

Theatrical release poster by Richard Amsel
Directed past Mike Hodges
Screenplay past Lorenzo Semple Jr.
Adaptation by
  • Michael Allin
Based on Characters
by Alex Raymond
Produced by Dino De Laurentiis
Starring
  • Sam J. Jones
  • Tune Anderson
  • Ornella Muti
  • Max von Sydow
  • Topol
  • Timothy Dalton
  • Mariangela Melato
  • Brian Blest
  • Peter Wyngarde
Cinematography Gilbert Taylor
Edited past Malcolm Cooke
Music by
  • Queen
  • Howard Blake
Color process Technicolor

Product
companies
  • Starling Productions
  • Famous Films
Distributed by
  • Columbia–EMI–Warner Distributors (United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland)
  • Universal Pictures (Usa)

Release dates
  • 5 December 1980 (1980-12-05) (United states)
  • eleven Dec 1980 (1980-12-11) (Uk)

Running time

 114 minutes[one]
Countries
  • Great britain
  • United states[2]
Language English
Budget $20–27 million[3] [iv]
Box function $46.5 million (United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland & US) [5]

Flash Gordon is a 1980 space opera film directed past Mike Hodges, based on the Male monarch Features comic strip of the same name created past Alex Raymond. The film stars Sam J. Jones, Tune Anderson, Ornella Muti, Max von Sydow and Topol, with Timothy Dalton, Mariangela Melato, Brian Blessed and Peter Wyngarde in supporting roles. The film follows star quarterback Flash Gordon (Jones) and his allies Dale Arden (Anderson) and Hans Zarkov (Topol) every bit they unite the warring factions of the planet Mongo against the oppression of Ming the Merciless (von Sydow), who is intent on destroying Earth.

Producer Dino De Laurentiis, who had previously overseen 2 other comic book adaptations, Danger: Diabolik and Barbarella (both 1968), had held an involvement in making a Flash Gordon film since the 1960s.[half-dozen] After a directorial offering from George Lucas was declined (resulting in the creation of Star Wars) and a version that was to exist directed past Federico Fellini did non enter production, De Laurentiis hired director Nicolas Roeg and Enter the Dragon writer Michael Allin to lead development on the film in 1977, but replaced them with Hodges and Lorenzo Semple Jr., who had scripted De Laurentiis' remake of King Kong, due to his dissatisfaction with Roeg's vision for the film.

Wink Gordon was primarily filmed in Britain, including on several soundstages at Elstree and Shepperton Studios, and uses a army camp style similar to the 1960s Telly series Batman (which Semple adult).[7] Due to a dispute with De Laurentiis, Jones left the motion-picture show prior to the end of principal photography, resulting in much of his dialogue being dubbed by histrion Peter Marinker;[8] the circumstances of Jones' divergence from the project and his career in the aftermath of its release serve as the key subjects of the documentary Life Afterward Flash.[ix] The film is notable for its musical score by the rock ring Queen, featuring orchestral sections by Howard Blake.

Although a box function success in both the United Kingdom and Italy, Flash Gordon performed poorly in other markets.[10] Critical reception during and since the motion-picture show'south initial release has been mostly favorable,[7] and it has since gained a meaning cult following.[10]

Plot [edit]

To relieve his boredom, Emperor Ming the Merciless of the planet Mongo declares that he will play with and destroy Earth by remotely causing natural disasters. On Earth, New York Jets football star Gregory "Flash" Gordon boards a small plane, where he meets travel agent Dale Arden. Mid-flight, the cockpit is hit by a meteor and the pilots are lost. Flash takes control and manages to crash land into a greenhouse endemic by Dr. Hans Zarkov. Zarkov believes that the disasters are existence acquired by an extraterrestrial source pushing the moon towards Earth, and has secretly constructed a spacecraft that he plans to use to investigate. Zarkov's assistant refuses to go, so Zarkov lures Flash and Dale aboard. The rocket launches, taking them to Mongo, where they are captured past Ming'south troops.

The trio is brought before Ming, who orders Dale be prepared for his pleasure. Flash tries to resist, but is overpowered. Ming orders Zarkov be reprogrammed and Flash executed. Ming's beautiful daughter, Princess Aura, seduces Ming's surgeon into saving Flash, with whom she fell in love at first sight. As they escape, Flash sees Zarkov beingness brainwashed by Klytus, the metal-faced head of the cloak-and-dagger police. Aureola and Wink flee to Arboria, kingdom of Prince Barin. En route, Aura teaches Flash to apply a telepathic communicator to contact Dale. He lets her know he is live, while Aureola starts kissing him. Dale is locked in Ming'south bedchamber merely, encouraged by Wink, she escapes. Klytus sends Zarkov to intercept Dale, who tells him and Klytus that Flash is alive. Zarkov and so reveals he resisted the brainwashing, and escapes Mingo Urban center with Dale. They are quickly captured past Prince Vultan's hawkmen and taken to Sky City.

Aura and Flash arrive at Arboria. Aura asks the Prince to go on Wink safe. A distrustful Barin, in love with Aura, agrees not to kill Flash, but so forces him to perform a deadly ritual. Barin and Flash take turns sticking their hands into a hollow stump with a giant scorpion-like wood beast inside. When Flash has to accept an extra plow, he pretends to be stung as a lark and escapes. Barin follows, but they are both captured by the hawkmen.

Klytus informs Ming that Gordon is alive and is given authority to notice the responsible party. Aureola returns and is taken prisoner and tortured by Klytus and General Kala. They force her to confess and Ming orders her banished to the ice moon Frigia once his wedding ceremony to Dale has taken identify. Meanwhile, Flash and Barin are taken to Sky City, where Flash and Dale are briefly reunited. Flash is forced to fight Barin in a death match, but Flash instead saves Barin's life, causing Barin to bring together him. Klytus arrives, and Wink and Barin kill him. Knowing this will bring retribution, Vultan orders the hawkmen to evacuate, leaving Barin, Flash, Dale and Zarkov behind. Ming's ship arrives and he orders Barin, Zarkov and Dale to be taken aboard. Ming is impressed with Flash and offers him lordship over Earth in exchange for loyalty. Flash refuses and Ming gives the order to destroy Vultan's kingdom along with Flash. Wink finds a rocket cycle and escapes earlier Sky City is destroyed.

Flash contacts Vultan, who is hiding on Arboria, and they plot an assault on Mingo City. Flash pretends to attack Mingo City lonely on his rocket bike. Full general Kala dispatches the war rocket Ajax to kill Flash, but the hawkmen deadfall and seize the rocket. Meanwhile, Princess Aura overpowers her baby-sit and frees Barin and Zarkov from the execution chamber. Flash and the hawkmen attack Mingo City in Ajax and Kala activates the defenses equally Ming'due south and Dale's wedding begins. Mingo Urban center's lightning field tin can only exist penetrated past flying Ajax into it at a suicidal speed. Flash volunteers to stay at the helm to ensure success and enable the hawkmen to invade the city.

Barin and Zarkov enter the control room and confront Kala, who refuses to cooperate. She attempts to kill Zarkov, but Barin shoots and kills her. Barin tells Zarkov to hold the fort while he heads to Sector Alpha 9 to deactivate the lightning field. Zarkov tries, just is unable to deactivate the shield from Kala's control room.

Barin fights through Ming'south guards and gets to Sector Alpha nine and deactivates the lightning field before Ajax hits it. Flash flies the rocket send into the urban center's wedding hall and the ship's bow impales Ming. He drags himself off the rocket olfactory organ, seriously wounded, and Flash offers to spare his life if he will stop the attack on Earth. Ming refuses and attempts to use his power ring on Flash, but his power falters and cipher happens. He then aims the ring at himself and is seemingly vaporized by its remaining power, seconds before the counter to the destruction of the Earth reaches zero. A huge victory celebration ensues.

Barin and Aureola become the new leaders in Ming's place. Barin names Vultan the full general of their armies. Flash, Dale and Zarkov discuss returning to Earth. Zarkov says he does non know how they will get back, but they will try. Barin tells them all they are welcome to stay, just Dale says she is a New York City girl, and information technology is now too placidity effectually Mongo.

The terminal frame shows Ming's ring existence picked upwardly by the hand of an unseen person. Ming's evil express mirth echoes as the ending credits roll. Following the credits, the text "The End" is shown on the screen earlier a question mark (?) is appended.

Cast [edit]

  • Sam J. Jones equally Flash Gordon
  • Tune Anderson as Dale Arden
  • Max von Sydow as Emperor Ming the Merciless
  • Topol as Hans Zarkov
  • Ornella Muti every bit Princess Aura
  • Timothy Dalton as Prince Barin
  • Brian Blessed as Prince Vultan
  • Peter Wyngarde every bit Full general Klytus
  • Mariangela Melato as Full general Kala
  • Richard O'Brien every bit Fico
  • John Osborne as Arborian Priest
  • Philip Stone as Zogi the Loftier Priest
  • John Hallam as General Luro
  • Suzanne Danielle as Serving Girl
  • John Morton equally Airline pilot
  • William Hootkins as Munson, Dr. Zarkov's banana
  • Robbie Coltrane as Man at Airfield[11]
  • Peter Duncan as Young Treeman
  • John Hollis as Klytus Observer No. two
  • Leon Greene as Colonel of Battle Control Room
  • Tony Scannell as Ming'southward officer
  • Bogdan Kominowski equally a lieutenant of Ming's Air Strength
  • George Harris as Prince Thun
  • Deep Roy as Fellini, Princess Aura's pet
  • Bob Goody as Azurian Man
  • Kenny Baker equally Dwarf
  • Malcolm Dixon as Dwarf

Product [edit]

Development [edit]

Since the 1960s, producer De Laurentiis, having produced Danger: Diabolik and Barbarella, became interested in making a film based on Flash Gordon. Initially, De Laurentiis wanted Italian director Federico Fellini to direct the flick; although Fellini optioned the Wink Gordon rights from De Laurentiis, he never made the film.[12] George Lucas attempted to make a Flash Gordon film in the 1970s; unable to acquire the rights from De Laurentiis, Lucas decided to create Star Wars instead.[12] [13] De Laurentiis and then hired Nicolas Roeg to make the moving-picture show. Roeg, an admirer of the original Alex Raymond comic strips, spent a year in pre-production work.[xiii] [fourteen] However, De Laurentiis was unhappy with Roeg's treatment of Flash Gordon, and Roeg left the project.[thirteen] De Laurentiis also considered hiring Sergio Leone to direct the Flash Gordon film; Leone refused, because he believed the script was not true-blue to the original Raymond comic strips.[14] [15] De Laurentiis and then hired Mike Hodges to direct.[xiii] The lavish sets and costumes were designed by Danilo Donati.[ commendation needed ]

Lorenzo Semple, Jr. wrote the script. He later recalled:

Dino wanted to make Wink Gordon humorous. At the time, I thought that was a possible way to go, simply, in hindsight, I realize it was a terrible mistake. We kept fiddling around with the script, trying to decide whether to be funny or realistic. That was a catastrophic thing to do, with so much money involved... I never idea the character of Flash in the script was particularly good. But in that location was no pressure level to make it any improve. Dino had a vision of a comic-strip character treated in a comic style. That was silly, considering Wink Gordon was never intended to be funny. The entire film got way out of control.[16]

Filming [edit]

According to a 2012 interview in Proverb, Sam J. Jones had disagreements with De Laurentiis of some kind and departed prior to mail service-production, which resulted in a substantial portion of his dialogue being dubbed past professional vocalism and dramatic player, Peter Marinker; whose identity was long considered unknown, even to Jones.[17] A sequel was proposed, but the departure of Jones effectively ended whatever such prospects.[eighteen] The airfield scene at the starting time of the film, although prepare in the U.S., was shot at the Broadford Airfield in Skye, Scotland.[11]

Soundtrack [edit]

The film's soundtrack was composed and performed by the rock band Queen. Wink Gordon was one of the earliest high-budget feature films to utilise a score primarily equanimous and performed by a stone band (an earlier example is The Who's Tommy, 1975). Additional orchestral score pieces were composed by Howard Blake. Blake's pieces from the film have been released on CD, alongside his score from Amityville three-D.

Release [edit]

The film was originally released in Northward America via Universal Studios. Universal has retained the domestic theatrical and dwelling video rights, while the international rights passed on through different distributors, somewhen residing with StudioCanal. However, the motion-picture show's U.k. distributor, Thorn EMI, controlled U.S TV rights. Although StudioCanal currently holds those rights due to ownership of the EMI film library, they licensed them to MGM for U.S syndication.

Reception [edit]

Box office [edit]

Wink Gordon opened on 825 screens in the Usa and Canada and grossed $3,934,030 in its opening weekend, finishing meridian of the US box function.[19] [20] [21] The following weekend, the film did less well, with a drop of 50% in grosses.[22] In its 3rd weekend, its average grosses fell a farther 20% but grossed $2,394,000 from 1,400 screens.[23] By the fourth weekend it was being pulled from major markets and had grossed $xiv.3 million in its first 24 days.[24] It went on to gross $27,107,960 in the United States and Canada. It had a very potent showing in the United Kingdom, grossing nearly £14 meg.[ commendation needed ] Additionally, the film performed well in Italian republic, due to the two Italian actors prominent in the credits.

Critical reception [edit]

The film received overall positive reviews, holding an 83% approval rating at the film review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, based on 47 reviews.[three] [25] [26] The motion picture ranked No. 88 on the Rotten Tomatoes Journey Through Sci-Fi List (100 Best-Reviewed Sci-Fi Movies).[27]

The picture show found appreciation with some film critics, such as The New Yorker 'due south Pauline Kael. Kael described Flash Gordon as having "some of the knowing, pleasurable giddiness of the fast-moving Bonds...The director, Mike Hodges, gets right into comic-strip sensibility and pacing".[28] Roger Ebert also praised Flash Gordon, stating "Flash Gordon is played for laughs, and wisely and then...This is space opera, a genre invented by Edgar Rice Burroughs and Hugo Gernsback and other men of unlimited imagination harnessed to definitely limited skills. Information technology'south fun to run across information technology done with energy and love and without the pseudo-meaningful apparatus of the Strength and Trekkie Ability... Is it fun? Yeah, sort of, it is."[29]

In contrast, Leslie Halliwell wrote in 1981 that the moving picture was "another addition to the increasing numbers of such things being restaged at enormous expense l years after their prime".[thirty] Richard Combs in the Monthly Film Message called it "an expensively irrelevant gloss on its sources."[30] Godfrey Fitzsimmons of The Irish Times said "Flash Gordon is a hodge-podge...the humour is not very funny and much of the "serious" element is hilarious, which makes for an unsatisfying movie."[31] Von Sydow (Ming) received a good bargain of praise for his performance, but Jones (Gordon) was nominated for a Gold Raspberry Award for Worst Actor. Before the film'southward run in theaters, a sequel was considered and according to Brian Blessed on the Region ii DVD commentary for Flash Gordon – Silver Anniversary Edition, the sequel was going to be set on Mars, every bit a possible update of the Buster Crabbe serials.

Christopher John reviewed Flash Gordon in Ares Magazine #vi and commented that "Wink Gordon could have been a good flick, but the inexpensive shots, uneven acting, and too familiar story have destroyed what could have been a new classic."[32]

Reviewing the film for The Encyclopedia of Fantasy, John Grant stated the motion picture was "Rather heavy-handed in its attempts at Parody" and that it used "stark garishness to compensate for appalling spfx"; he ended that Flash Gordon "is a gaudy cliché whose charm should not be underestimated".[33] John Clute gave Wink Gordon a mixed review, saying "the special effects are bully" and praising the action sequences. Yet Clute expressed dislike for Flash Gordon's humorous, self-aware tone, adding the actors "are all just playing, and we know it".[34] Peter Nicholls in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction gave a negative verdict on Flash Gordon: "Autonomously from the fetishistic costumes...there is picayune of interest in this tongue-in-cheek, pulp fantasy, which tries to brand a Comic-strip virtue of wooden acting."[35] The Aurum Film Encyclopedia also gave the picture show an adverse review, claiming it was impossible to suspend disbelief in the film: "Hodges puts a knowingness and literalness that works completely confronting the sense of pulp poetry so essential if we are to believe in Flash". Information technology also described Semple'southward script as "similarly bland, its occasional witticisms notwithstanding".[36] Reviewing Flash Gordon for The Dissolve website, Keith Phipps stated, "Wink Gordon is, like Batman, entertaining for kids and a unlike sort of entertaining for grown-ups, who pick up on the goofiness...But in that location'south more than a whiff of condescension to it, likewise, as if information technology's ridiculous to even consider Raymond's vision of ambivalent heroes and villains as annihilation just comedy provender."[ten]

Cult following [edit]

Flash Gordon has since become a cult classic with fans of science fiction and fantasy. Information technology is a favourite of director Edgar Wright, who used the film as one of the visual influences for Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. Acclaimed comic volume artist Alex Ross names the motion-picture show equally his favorite film of all time. He painted the cover of the motion picture's 2007 "Saviour of the Universe Edition" DVD release, and starred in a featurette to talk extensively about his amore for the film.[37] In Seth MacFarlane's 2012 comedy Ted, the characters of Ted (MacFarlane) and John (Marking Wahlberg) are fans of Wink Gordon, and it is referenced several times throughout the motion-picture show. Jones (playing himself) also appears in the film during a manic party sequence and in the moving-picture show's conclusion.[17] He also appears in the sequel Ted 2.[38] Horror punk musician Wednesday 13 based the song "Hail Ming" on his album The Dixie Dead (2013) on the picture show.

Blessed'southward functioning equally Prince Vultan lodged the veteran stage and screen actor into the Britain'due south commonage consciousness for the utterance of a single line – "Gordon's alive?!" – which, twoscore years later, remains the most repeated, reused, and recycled quotation from both the flick and Blessed's career.[39] [xl] [41]

The Dynamite Entertainment comic Wink Gordon: Zeitgeist drew on several elements of the 1980 film, including the reappearance of the villain Klytus (who does non appear in the original comic strips).[42] In this accommodation, Klytus once more serves equally Ming'due south main henchman.[42] The 2014 Dynamite Flash Gordon comic also contained several allusions to the film, including having Vultan speak the line "Gordon'due south alive?!".[43]

In 2018, Life After Flash, a feature-length documentary directed by Lisa Downs and produced by Ashley Pugh, had its earth premiere at Chattanooga Moving-picture show Festival,[44] followed by the European Premiere at the 72nd Edinburgh International Film Festival.[45] Life After Wink not only celebrates the 1980 classic featuring interviews with bandage, coiffure and fans including Melody Anderson, Brian Blessed, Peter Wyngarde, Mark Millar, Robert Rodriguez, Stan Lee and Brian May, simply also explores the aftermath of when star Sam J. Jones went up against one of the near powerful producers in Hollywood: Dino De Laurentiis. Information technology was released worldwide in 2019.[ix]

In other media [edit]

A comic book adaptation, written past Bruce Jones and illustrated by archetype Flash Gordon artist Al Williamson (himself non a fan of the movie due to its overall campy nature, numerous script changes and resulting alterations to his artwork[46]), was released by Western Publishing to coincide with the motion picture'southward release. It was serialised in three problems of the Wink Gordon comic volume (#31–33) and released in a single large format softcover and hardcover editions.

A novelisation of the movie by Arthur Byron Comprehend was published in 1980.[47]

To coincide and promote the motion-picture show, Bally Manufacturing produced and released a Flash Gordon pinball auto in early 1981.

A video game adaptation for the Atari 2600 was adult by Sirius Software and published past 20th Century Fox Games in 1983.[48] [49]

Titan Books also appear the publication of their book on the making of the picture entitled Flash Gordon: The Official Story of the Film by John Walsh to be published in Oct 2020.[50]

Home media [edit]

The motion-picture show was released in 1981 on VHS, Betamax and MCA DiscoVision, and re-released in 1998 on both Laserdisc and Region 1 DVD via Universal. It was released in Region 2 in 2001 (Japan) and again in 2005 (United kingdom/Europe); with the 2005 release including commentary by Brian Blest winning the "Commentary of the Year" award from Hotdog Magazine for his sense of humour and enthusiasm. On 7 August 2007, Universal Pictures released a "Saviour of the Universe Edition" DVD in North America to coincide with The Sci Fi Channel'southward new television series. This special edition does not include the bandage and crew interviews of the Region 2 release.

In October 2007, a high definition transfer of the motion-picture show premiered on the MGM Hard disk cable/satellite channel.

In November 2007, Sam J. Jones and Melody Anderson together created a new commentary rails for the StudioCanal DVD edition of the flick.[51] [52] Flash Gordon was released on Blu-ray on 15 June 2010.[53]

In 2012, Universal released Wink Gordon in a 4-feature DVD gear up along with Battlestar Galactica: Saga of a Star World, The Last Starfighter and Dune.

On 3 May 2016, Ted vs. Flash Gordon: The Ultimate Collection was released on Blu-ray plus Digital Hard disk drive, featuring this movie and the unrated versions of Ted and Ted 2.[54]

StudioCanal re-released the picture on Blu-Ray and 4K Blu-Ray on 3 August 2020, sourced from a new 4K restoration of the original camera negative, which was approved by Managing director Mike Hodges.[55]

Awards [edit]

  • Saturn Laurels
Nominated: Best Costumes
Nominated: Best Science Fiction Motion-picture show
Nominated: All-time Supporting Actor
  • BAFTA
Nominated: Best Costumes Design
Nominated: All-time Original Film Music
Nominated: Best Art Pattern
  • 1st Golden Raspberry Award
Nominated: Worst Role player (Sam J. Jones)[56]

Reboot [edit]

Since 2015, a new Flash Gordon moving-picture show has been in the works.[57] 20th Century Trick hired JD Payne and Patrick McKay as screenwriters, while Matthew Vaughn was in talks to directly.[58] On fifteen January 2016, Marking Protosevich was hired to rewrite the film's script.[59] In Oct 2018, Overlord director Julius Avery was reportedly recruited as director.[threescore]

An animated moving picture was under development at Disney/Fox with Thor: Ragnarok director Taika Waititi writing and directing.[61] In August 2019, the animated picture show was canceled,[62] however in July 2021, the film was revived with the plan to make it live-activity.[63]

Run into as well [edit]

  • Wink Gordon
  • Flesh Gordon (erotic parody)

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External links [edit]

  • Flash Gordon – Saviour of the Universe Edition Archived 31 May 2010 at the Wayback Motorcar
  • Flash Gordon at IMDb
  • Flash Gordon at the TCM Movie Database
  • Flash Gordon at AllMovie
  • Wink Gordon at the American Film Institute Catalog
  • Flash Gordon at Box Office Mojo
  • Flash Gordon at Rotten Tomatoes

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