{"id":8728,"date":"2019-06-24T18:43:23","date_gmt":"2019-06-25T01:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog-proxy.atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/?p=8728"},"modified":"2019-06-24T18:43:23","modified_gmt":"2019-06-25T01:43:23","slug":"taika-waititi-is-working-on-a-flash-gordon-movie-for-fox-and-disney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/taika-waititi-flash-gordon-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"Taika Waititi Is Working On A ‘Flash Gordon’ Movie For Fox And Disney"},"content":{"rendered":"

If there’s anything better than the director of\u00a0Thor: Ragnarok<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>making a new\u00a0Flash Gordon<\/em>\u00a0movie, we don’t wanna know about it.<\/p>\n

Taika Waititi is attached to help “crack” an animated\u00a0Flash Gordon<\/em> movie for Fox\/Disney,\u00a0Deadline<\/em> exclusively reported Monday. The inventive and hilarious filmmaker’s camp says it is too early to tell if he will direct the film, but Waititi is reportedly signing on as both writer and director. He’s currently in post on his much-anticipated\u00a0Jojo Rabbit<\/em>, a satire based on the novel by\u00a0Christine Leunens about a young boy in Hitler\u2019s army that finds out his mother (Scarlett Johansson) is hiding a Jewish girl from the Nazis.<\/p>\n

The last time Flash Gordon was on the big screen was in the 1980 cult-fave starring Sam Jones as the titular hero. But the movie’s big draw was — and still is — that a-mah-zing theme song and soundtrack by Queen. Check it out below:<\/p>\n