Flash Gordon (film)/Trivia

• Beam Me Up, Scotty: Ming never actually says "Pathetic earthlings, who will save you now?" Except in the trailer.
  • Ming does say "Pathetic earthlings", a lot (i.e. "Pathetic earthlings, hurling yourself out into the void...").
• Doing It for the Art: Playing Vultan was Brian Blessed's lifelong dream.
• Hey, It's That Guy!: Yes, it's an All-Star Cast (including Brian Blessed), but Deep Roy is Aura's valet and Riff-Raff is Barin's dragon Fico.
  • Also Porkins!
  • And Light as one of Vultan's guys!
  • Kingsley Shacklebolt as Prince Thun, who can offer nothing this year but his loyalty.
• Promoted Fanboy: Brian Blessed has admitted in interviews that when he and his brother used to play a game based on the TV series he always wanted to be Vultan. Decades later he got to play the same childhood game on the big screen.
• Stillborn Franchise: The actors signed up for a trilogy of films a la Star Wars, and there was a spinoff children's TV show.
• Throw It In: Flash jumping into the camera screaming "YEAH!" was an improvisation by Sam Jones, as nobody could figure out how to end the movie.
• Vindicated by Cable
• What Could Have Been:
  • The first draft of the script had, among other things, no Kala, Klytus being psychic, a Tiger Man aiding Flash, Ming having a group of Amazon warriors, and a proper swordfight between Flash and Ming.
  • Directors considered for this film included Federico Fellini and Nicholas Roeg.
  • All actors were signed for three movies, but problems with star Sam J. Jones during post-production (which lead to Same Language Dub) pretty much killed the trilogy.