Flash Gordon was the King of the Impossible and the Ridiculous!
4 min readAug 21, 2022
“Flash Gordon” was a movie that nobody wanted and the movie viewing public in 1980 proved it. George Lucas opted out of directing it to make “STAR WARS” instead. Good call, George. The lead actor, Sam J. Jones, walked off the project while the film was still in production over a mysterious fight with the producer, Dino De Laurentis. Dino then secretly hired another actor to dub…
