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Flash Gordon – Filmed in Canada – not available on Canadian TV August 29, 2007

Posted by showmescifi in Flash Gordon, flashgordon, kurt russell, lucas arts, psp, sandworms of dune, Sci Fi, science fiction, scifi, secret apprentice, space, space network, spacecast, star trek tng, starwars.
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Flash Gordon is filmed in British Columbia thanks in part to grants from the Government of Canada.

Yet if you live in Canada – it’s not all that easy to find Flash Gordon on the tube (legally that is). Canada’s Space Network (spacecast.com) which is the Canadian home to Battlestar Galactica and Stargate Atlantis among other first run SciFi shows IS NOT running Flash Gordon.

There is no official word on why that is.

Then again considering how bad Flash Gordon is – Canadians aren’t missing all that much are they?

Escape from New York set for remake – Kurt Russell isn’t happy March 26, 2007

Posted by showmescifi in escape from new york, john carpenter, kurt russell, scifi, snake plissken.
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Another SciFi classic is set for a remake – though some might argue whether or not John Carpenter’s 1981 Escape from New York is classic.

One this is for sure – Kurt Russel’s performance as Snake Plissken makes the movie.

None other than 300’s lead Spartan Gerard Butler is set to take the role of Snake in the remake set for a 2009 release.

Apparently that hasn’t left poor Kurt Russell very happy. In fact multiple news outlets are reporting that he’s quite peeved.

Asked if he’d do a cameo in the new version, he said: “F–k that! I am Snake Plissken! It’s like Sean Connery always watching someone else do their version of Bond.”

Russell isn’t the only one that isn’t happy about the remake, there is already a petition online to Stop The Escape From New York remake.

Just in case you missed it 26 years ago…here’s the 1981 trailer…(trailers sure did suck back then).