Taiki Waititi's animated Flash Gordon movie will now be a live-action feature.
According to its producer John Davis, Waititi is scripting the movie at the moment, which will be entirely live-action.
"Taika is writing it. It was a movie that was a huge influence on him growing up," Davis told Collider. "It is one of his favorite movies. He initially said to me, 'Let's do it animated.' I said, 'Okay.' Then we got into it and started developing it and he said, 'No, let's do it live-action.' I said, 'Even better.'"
The Thor: Love and Thunder filmmaker signed on to write a new version of the comic book character back in 2019, and according to Davis, he has "the most fantastically interesting vision for this movie…. this movie embraces everything that's special about Taika, and his vision. It harkens in a very interesting way to the original conception from the comics."
Davis seems unfazed about any of those prior commitments. "Well, he's writing it. So when somebody writes a script that they're going to direct, they're obviously going to really like the script, right? So you get a big leg up, right? A lot of times, you go to a huge director with somebody else's script and he's got to reinvent it. They've got to make it their own. They've got to... whatever. This is going to be Taika-ready."
