From AICN, Apparently SciFi launched last weekend a 10-second teaser promoting its new “Flash Gordon” series, which bows in August. No footage from the show was utilized, but something rather cooler was.One can hear a tiny yet unmistakable snippet of Queen’s “Flash Gordon” theme, for my money the best part of the 1980 Sam Jones movie. (It kinda sounded like a cover version, but I’ll leave that to the experts to debate.)
Of course, just because they use it in the promos doesn’t mean it’ll actually serve as a component of the series itself. Remember how UPN used The Calling’s “Wherever You Will Go” in all its first-season “Enterprise” promos, only to bait-and-switch into Diane Warren’s supershitty “Where My Heart Will Take Me” as the show’s actual title theme?
The Queen-y promo is now online. Want to sit through a 30-second Listerine or Esurance commercial to hear all 10 seconds of the promo for yourself? Click here!!
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Yeah! Who knows what the series will be like, but that music does resonate. Mmmmm.
You know, I love that movie. We talk a lot around here about how annoying camp is, and Flash Gordon is probably in the top ten campiest movies ever made. But it's possessed of a fair amount of sincerity, too. Whatever its mission, it's mostly about getting what was in the daily strip onto the screen. Which means the costumes and general production design are pretty damn good.
Flash! Ah-aaaaaahhhh!
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