In 1977 American Graffitti director, George Lucas, unveiled to the world his new space-opera film, smashing box office records everywhere, and creating a new word – blockbuster! And that film was … Flash Gordon!
……or that’s what the headlines could have read if George had been successful in his attempt to buy the rights to Flash from producer Dino De Laurentiis. Instead he went on to make his own little original movie, which found some moderate success at the cinema(!).
And it was the success of Star Wars, that led to Laurentiis finally producing the one that got away from George, Flash Gordon, releasing it in 1980, (40 years ago!), directed by Mike Hodges (Get Carter).
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