Guardians of the Galaxymay have unwittingly put Matthew Vaughn’sFlash Gordonremake on hold . TheFlash Gordoncomic striptease , created by famed cartoonist Alex Raymond in 1934 , is one of the oldest and most influential blank space opera house cartoon strip in account , which is why it has been adapt in numerous medium forms over the years . Most of late , twentieth Century Fox has been attempt to reboot the place on the bounteous covert , with theKingsmanandX - Men : First Classdirector at the helm - but things have n’t progressed as well as either political party had hope .

James Gunn’sGuardians of the Galaxytook the   Marvel Cinematic Universe in a newfangled direction , and its sequel , Guardians of the Galaxy Vol . 2 , set the phase forfuture MCU sequels beyond its current Phase 3 . Both picture show have ground outstanding succeeder both critically and commercially , something that most other distance dangerous undertaking films - such asEnder ’s Game , based on Orson Scott Card ’s novel of the same name , andValerian and the City of a Thousand Planets , based on the French sci - fi comics of the same name - have n’t been capable to do , away fromStar Wars . It turns out , in addition to influencing new sci - fi risky venture films , Guardians ' success also put other movies on hold .

Vaughn has been busy promoting the release ofKingsman : The Golden Circle-   and in an interview withCollider , he briefly discussed the position of hisFlash Gordonremake , a project which he reportedly boarded in 2015 :

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“ Yeah , we ’ve been work on it . For me , the only problem with Flash Gordon is Guardians [ of the Galaxy ] kind of stole what I would have liked to have done with it . You ’ve got Star Wars , you ’ve get Guardians , so you ’ve got to have your own space opera , but you have to come up something that can live among these two very , very outstanding dealership . ”

Sci - fi movies are quite common throughout the filmmaking industry , but decent space operas , a branch of the skill fiction literary genre , are rare to line up and even more backbreaking to make . Although infinite franchises have borrowed fromStar Warsover the years , casual moviegoers may assume that any novel sci - fi adventure / space opera house film even remotely exchangeable toGuardianswill charge the film maker and studio of copy the MCU movie . It ’s one of the inauspicious issue of following successful smash hit picture . What many innovative moviegoer may not understand , however , is thatFlash Gordonhas been around longer than superheroes have , and its influence on the sci - fi genre extends beyond traditional sci - fi picture .

At the present moment , Vaughn plans on makingKingsman 3afterThe Golden Circlefinishes its theatrical political campaign , but hopefully , he conform to meter to work hisFlash Gordonreboot into his schedule , while also finding mode to make the remake different fromStar WarsandGuardians of the Galaxy .

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