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FLASH GORDON Reboot?

Johnny Rico

Johnny Rico

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I heard rumors a while back that a Flash Gordon reboot film was in the works. If so, I thought I'd throw out my Casting Wish List...(and this is my attempt at using current actors to mimic the cast from the 1980 film.

OK, here goes:

Flash Gordon: Chris Hemsworth (Yes, I know, he's in everything now, but so what...looks enough like Sam Jones to me.)

Dr. Hans Zarkov: A full-bearded Ben Afleck. (Hey, why not?)

Dale Arden: Megan Fox

Ming the Merciless: Ben Kingsley or Tom Hardy

Princess Aura: Mila Kunis

Prince Vultan: Gerald Butler

Prince Barin: Clive Owen

Klytus: William Dafoe

Prince of Ardentia: (minor roll) Peter Mensah (messenger in '300')

Kala: Lena Headey

Vultan's right hand man: Charlie Hunnam


What do you all think?
 
sojourner said:
Johnny Rico said:
Mr. Laser Beam said:
Zarkov: Edward James Olmos
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I can see that, but he's too old now, isn't he? He's 67 now, plus he really doesn't look the part.
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Coming from the guy that suggested Affleck.

Flash: Chris Evans
Dale: :shrug:
Zarkov: Eddie Izzard
Ming: Liam Neeson
Prince Baron: Michael Fassbender (my "go to" actor for any fantasy casting right now)
Vultan: Nicholas Cage
Aura: Olivia Wilde
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aside from Cage that would be a great cast. not sure who i would pick for Dale either. certainly not Megan Fox.
 
Are you kidding? Nic Cage is perfect for such an over the top part. He's one of the few people I can see pulling off, "Hawkmen! DIIIIVE!!!!"
 
My reboot would be much like the Alex Ross comic Zeitgeist - mixing the best elements of the 1980 film with the original 1930's comics, adding a huge fx budget (hence a not-quite-all-star cast) and keeping at least the Queen theme to go with the epic Howard Shore score (who better? After all, the LOTR composer did it with Queen the first time)...

Flash Gordon: Channing Tatum
Dale Arden: Lizzy Caplan
Hans Zarkov: Alex Veadov
Ming the Merciless: John Turturro
Princess Aura: Renee Olstead
Prince Barin of the Treemen: Luke Evans
Prince Vultan of the Hawkmen: Gerard Butler
Prince Thun of the Lionmen: Daniel Bryan
King Kala of the Sharkmen: John Cena
Queen Fria of Frigia: Sarah Gadon
Klytus: Guy Pearce
General Ziva (Kala in the 1980 movie): Noomi Rapace
 
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Thank you, Nightowl1701, for including Thun....my favorite from the 80's cartoon & the movie serials.

i'd like to see a few thigns switched up...like maybe having either Dale or even Flash not be white.

With Ming...i hate to go back to ethnic stereotype...but Byron Mann pulled off a great charismatic leader in Man with The Iron Fists...so he'd be good as Ming, i think.

isn;t there a queen of Frigia? It'd be funny/interesting if someone ethnic did whiteface fo rit. (But i guess no one might care...Jesse Rath's been doing it on Defiance).
 
You people are way overthinking this.

Just cast Eddie Murphy. Have him play all the parts. Or split 'em up between him and Jack Black. BOOM. Done.
 
This was kind of hard, especially since I watch more movies from the 1930s than I do from the 21st century. It was hard for me to think of a blond heroic kind of actor. The guy who plays Jason on True Blood is hot and blond, but his character is such an idiot that it's tough to imagine him as Flash. Same with Chris Pine. The obvious choice is Chris Evans, but he's already played two heroic types. So for Flash I had to give a dark-haired actor a dye job. Zarkov and Ming were also tough, because they also require very specific ethnic types. So here's what I got:

Flash - Jensen Ackles
Dale - Seychelle Gabriel
Zarkov - Saul Rubinek (or maybe Christopher Heyerdahl)
Ming - Daniel Dae Kim (or maybe Naveen Andrews)
Aura - Anna Silk
Barin - Sam Witwer
Vultan - John Rhys-Davies
 
I think the idea of rebooting FLASH GORDON ... is cool. It lends itself very easily to even more of the kind of fun and excitement the STAR TREK reboots have given us.
 
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