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Flash Gordon (2007 TV series)
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flash Gordon[1] is an American science fiction television series that will première in the United States in August 2007.[2] The series will begin filming in Vancouver, Canada in May.[2] The show's first two episodes will be written by Peter Hume.[3]
* Flash Gordon — Eric Johnson[3]
* Dale Arden — Gina Holden
* Dr. Hans Zarkov — Jody Racicot
* Ming the Merciless — John Ralston
* Baylin — Karen Cliché
* Joe — Giles Panton
* Nick — Panou
* Rankol — Jonathan Walker
* Norah — Jill Teed
* Jolie — Carmen Moore
* Princess Aura — Anna van Hoft
* Vestra - Carrie Genzel[4]
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Flash Gordon is a Sci Fi Channel series scheduled to premiere on August 10, 2007. The 22-episode series is currently filming in Vancouver.
In the series, Flash Gordon is a marathon winner whose scientist father disappeared through a wormhole 13 years ago. As the series opens, something comes back to Earth through the wormhole, looking for Flash -- which drags him unwillingly into a science-fiction adventure on the planet Mongo. Dale Arden, a reporter for a local newspaper, also gets mixed up in Flash's adventures. Dale, Flash's ex-girlfriend, is now dating a detective. The uneasy relationship between the two is made even more complicated by the romantic attentions of Aura, the daughter of the ruler of Mongo.
Having Flash travel to Mongo through a wormhole, and not in a rocketship created by Dr. Zarkov is a significant change to the Flash Gordon story. Flash won't be trapped on another planet, as in previous versions of the story -- he'll be able to travel back and forth between Earth and Mongo. At a press launch, Eric Johnson (the new Flash) explained the change:
"Well, I don't want to give away the hook of the show. What they've done is they've updated it. Space travel back in the 1930s and back in the 1950s was this fantastic possibility and there was a belief that anything was possible at that time. As we know now from the space program, it takes a long time to get to another planet.
"So they've somewhat done away with the spaceship itself and have done the rip in space-time/wormhole scenario, which not only makes it easier and more plausible and realistic, it also allows for Flash to get back home. So he's not just relegated to the planet of Mongo. But it opens the door for his enemies from Mongo -- that, I think, is the biggest change in the update, but I think it broadens the series in a way that no other Flash Gordon franchise has had the opportunity to do." [1]
Unusually, the Sci Fi Channel ordered a full set of episodes without seeing a pilot first.
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