She's in ABC Family's forthcoming "Elixer" musical. Fans of TNT's "Franklin & Bash" comedic legal procedural show can expect her to return as the mother of Bash (Mark-Paul Gosselaar) in the summer show. Quinn, Medicine Woman, is busy with myriad other projects. Meanwhile, the actress, who'll forever be known to many as Dr. Says Jane, "Hallmark saw it, loved it, picked it up - and now it's going to be a Mother's Day movie on Hallmark Movie Channel." Ben Savage, Sean Patrick Flanery and Casper Van Dien are also in the cast - and real Smith Moutain Lake habitues appear as extras in the movie. Zima is the daughter who stayed at the lake, which, local legend has it, is inhabited by some sort of Loch Ness-style creature. The plot has Thompson as Jane's estranged daughter, who returns to the family home at Smith Mountain Lake after her father's sudden death. It was like, 'Let's make a movie!'" she says of the mother-daughter drama in which she stars with Scottie Thompson and Madeline Zima. They funded it and donated their time and money - and their houses and food. The people had never made a movie before. "It was made in West Virginia, in very unique circumstances. Jane Seymour reports that her upcoming "Lake Effects" telefilm had a production such as she'd never previously experienced. Someone such as Randall Park could be perfect, especially given Waititi’s fondness for the creatively absurd – this is the film-maker who triumphantly recast Marvel’s stony-faced monster Korg as as a squeaky-voiced Kiwi in Thor: Ragnarok.If you can't get someone else to make your movie - make it yourself. On the other hand, a live-action approach would allow the hiring of an ethnically appropriate actor. Animation, with its ability to create convincing imaginary worlds, is a far safer option, and who could argue with a shift that would allow stalwarts of the 1980 film (such as Brian Blessed) to reprise their roles? Live-action fantasy movies can easily become a source of ridicule, as Andrew Stanton’s criminally underrated John Carter discovered to its cost ( around $200m of it) in 2012. Thanks to the wonders of animation (and a complicated plot about alternate universes) the studio didn’t have to worry about choosing between Peter Parker or Miles Morales – it just included both.Īs an approach, it makes sense, even if it’s essentially a cop out. With it, Sony was able to make the first decent Spider-Man film in more than a decade. Photograph: Snap Stills/Rex/Shutterstockįox/Disney’s great plan to reimagine Flash Gordon seems to boil down to this: animation! As the makers of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse know well, animation can be a great problem solver. Of course Max von Sydow’s towering performance in the campy 1980 film really doesn’t help here, even if those costumes and makeup on a Swedish actor now seems pretty repugnant.Įric Johnson and Karen Cliche in the 2007 TV adaptation. Ridding the villain of his unwieldy east Asian inspiration, as the awful 2007 TV adaptation attempted, makes his inclusion pointless. Removing him would be like deleting Darth Vader from Star Wars, or Voldemort from Harry Potter. The problem for Taika Waititi, who has reportedly been hired to direct a new Flash Gordon movie for the newly assembled Fox/Disney studio, is that Ming is also the most interesting thing about the property. Ming, along with Fu Manchu and the later Mandarin comic book supervillain, are classic examples of “ yellow peril” xenophobia, then at its height in the US and large parts of western Europe. When the scariest thing you can imagine invading the Earth is an ornately dressed gentleman of apparent east Asian extraction, it’s clear you’re not really frightened of aliens at all. It is not hard to pinpoint the mindset that inspired the creation of Flash Gordon’s extraterrestrial nemesis, Ming the Merciless, back in 1934.
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