why wy?

Just read the latest in movie news and this caught my eye: "Van Helsing" writer-director Stephen Sommers has landed the rights to Flash Gordon.

I really, really liked Flash Gordon as a kid, before I realised how cheesy it was and then I redeveloped a kitschy love for it again. It's a pretty lame plot, football player (or astronaut) gets marooned on strange planet, saves villain's daughter and blows stuff up. But the sets! The rockets made of tin foil! Ming the Merciless! And the music of Queen! Damn, it was good cheese. Like Barbarella.

And Ralph Fiennes is playing Voldermort in the next Harry Potter. Almost every other famous British actor is in the series, you could start a new game, three degrees of Harry Potter and come up with some interesting links. The next instalment will be directed by Mike Newell, who is famous for Mona Lisa Smile (bad), Donnie Darko (good) and Four Weddings and a Funeral (Erm). Hopefully, the new film will be dark and funny, and without Hugh Grant and Julia Roberts (who did a movie together - see, this three degrees of Harry Potter thing really works).