New Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers Movies

With the biggest summer of comic book related movies to hit the big screen. What can be concluded with the cache of four color related movies. One, it is about time. Two, people can’t read anymore and comics is the best way to get a visual of your movie and within an hour (being generous) you can read a comic and you have a perfect idea what a movie will look like. Who needs to read a book? Comics is the way to go. Now the comic industry is getting wiser and making comics that will translate better into movies. From Indy to major publishers this is the pinnacle for the industry to get character recognition that will generate more revue for the publisher. It would be conclusive that the publishers want a bigger piece of the pie with the rights to the property. So what is a movie studio to do? Go out and get rights of characters that are either close to public domain or where most of the work is already in public domain.

 

Classic case are both Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon that were acquired by movie studios for big treatments and re-visioning the characters. Nu Image/Millennium Films got the rights to Buck Rogers and Sony Pictures won the bidding rights to Flash Gordon. Here are two characters that ruled the early part of the 20th Century in newspapers and serial movies. They got outdone by real science that made their pulp rooted stories seem childish at best. These pillars of illustrated sci-fi grandpas will once grace the screens with new stories. They never seem to get it right with these two. I think the best thing for them is if they could get them both in the same movie and battle it out for the sci-fi retirement home in the sky.