Deadline:

Fox/Disney has attached Thor: Ragnarok director Taika Waititi to “crack" Flash Gordon, as an animated feature film. John Davis is producing.

I had heard that the inventive filmmaker Waititi was signing on to write and direct, but his camp indicates it’s too early to gauge exactly what his role would be. The director is in post on Jojo Rabbit, his scripted adaptation of the Christine Leunens novel, a satire in which a young boy in Hitler’s army discovers that his mother is hiding a Jewish girl from the Nazis. Despite the ruthless nationalism in the air, the youth is torn and one of the voices guiding him is his idiot imaginary friend Adolf Hitler (Waititi plays him).

SO DOPE!

With as imaginative as Thor: Ragnarok was, I can’t wait to see what Taika can do with the untethered nature of animation.