Sam Worthington -vs- Ming??

This hit right before Christmas and kinda glided under most folks' radars. Thought it was worthy of mentioning all the same...

Merrick here...
Sam Worthington may play the title character in a previously announced FLASH GORDON movie.

Sources say Sam is up against the sexy Ryan Reynolds for the leading role in the sci-fi flick. “If he gets the role it would be quite a big deal as Flash is an all-American hero,” dished one Hollywood insider. “Right now it’s between Sam, Ryan Reynolds and one or two others for the lead role should the project actually get off the ground.”

...says HollyScoop HERE. As far as we know, Breck Eisner (SAHARA, THE CRAZIES remake) is still directing this one. The last time we saw Flash on the big screen was in Dino De Laurentiis' 1980 film in which the character was portrayed with beach-bumish "golly gee" ness by Sam J. Jones. Three years after Dino's adaptation, a FLASH GORDON sequence was deleted from A CHRISTMAS STROY - HERE's a piece of script from what was to be a fantasy cutaway featuring Ralphie saving Flash and standing against Ming & his Turbo-Xenon Space Balloon. More recently, Gordon appeared on TV in SyFy's woefully misguided, conceptually retarded, energetically unappealing FLASH GORDON series. I've always had a special love for this iteration... the whole shebang is available HERE.
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