Taika Waititi’s upcoming Flash Gordon adaptation, which was originally set to be animated, will now be a live-action film.According to producer John Davis, who has been attached to the project for some time, Waititi is currently in the process of penning his version of the space opera, based on the King Features comic strip created by Alex Raymond.“Taika is writing it,” Davis told Collider in a new interview. “It was a movie that was a huge influence on him growing up.