Mike Hodges

I think it's Dino De Laurentiis, right? Who did it? I don't know.

Mike Hodges, yeah.

Produced by Dino De Laurentiis.

Oh, yeah.

I can't remember who directed it.

Who directed it? Mike Hodges.

Mike Hodges, dear God.

Flash Gordon, man.

This is the problem with being middle-aged men doing a podcast.

This movie had a lot of issues,

but yeah, it started with Mike Hodges, went to Don Taylor.

Yeah.

Once Don Taylor, you know, it was, it was a bit of a thing.

I don't know why it took three days, but apparently it took three days.

Creative differences.

Mike Hodges leaves the movie.

Don Taylor comes in.

And the producer wanted a big hit and argued with every point until the artist left, and that film didn't happen.

Mike Hodges, director of cold British kitchen sink gangster revenge film Get Carter, born and raised conservative but becoming more left-leaning and thoughtful following his time as a Navy minesweeper, this made him ideal to direct a Star Wars copycat as fast as possible in Dino's eyes, especially one written by Lorenzo Cimpel Jr., best known for his hard-bitten political thrillers of the kind, uh, that Captain America and the Winter Soldier were based on, the parallax view, and specifically Three Days of the Condor, and of course, the absolutely ludicrous weekly camp fair of Adam West's Batman TV show.

You, you want to get the director of Get Carter for that one.

When talking about it 35 to 40 years in retrospect on the Arrow Blu way, Hodges remembers arguing with Dino the whole time.

Actually, one of the reasons why he, uh, he ended up...

The, the reason stated for firing Nicholas Roeg was that the budget ballooned to $27 million.

He ended up making Flash Gordon with Mike Hodges for $27 million.

So well done on getting that budget down there.