Does anyone in Marvel ever say anything as winning as “Flash, Flash, I love you, but we only have 14 hours to save the Earth!” Does Wonder Woman or Batman ever fly blind on a rocket cycle? No, because these things only happen in the greatest superhero movie ever made: Flash Gordon. A Flash Gordon comic bookThe result was Flash Gordon, a dashing polo player and Yale graduate who teams up with love interest Dale Arden and scientist Dr Hans Zarkov in order to prevent Earth from colliding with the sinister planet Mongo. Flash Gordon is not very bright”In the meantime, De Laurentiis drafted in Lorenzo Semple Jr, the writer behind Batman, the kitsch hit 1960s TV series starring Adam West, and set out to find his Flash Gordon. It also meant there was no Flash Gordon to promote Flash Gordon.

Source: The Irish Times August 01, 2020 03:56 UTC