Sony Pictures has won a heated bidding war over the rights to make another live-action film based on the 1930s comic strip Flash GordonAccording to Variety the deal being negotiated is in the high six-figure range Breck Eisner Sahara is attached to direct and Neal Moritz will produceThe comic strip created by Alex Raymond followed a polo player who is kidnapped and taken to Planet Mongo where he battles Ming the Merciless The strip was adapted in a 1980 film starring Sam Jones and has seen several incarnations on television most recently in Sci Fis 2007 series starring Eric Johnson Adam Bryantread more