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The CLASH OF THE TITANS Remake Has A Director...
Merrick here...
We've heard many names swirling around this title for quite a while, but now comes word that someone in officially on-board.
It's Steve Norrington. So says THIS ARTICLE in Variety.
Norrington directed the first BLADE movie (which, to me, was far better than it could've been...neither of its sequels came close to matching it in my opinion). He also directed THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMAN - a tremendously cool concept whose pacing was way off & whose heart never quite found a pulse.
An unexpected choice, but also an interesting one that makes sense in a weird sort of way. LXG sorely missed spirit...and to some extent so did the original CLASH. Hopefully they'll inject some spunk into this one; it could be a blast.
Sounds like the project will rumble to life early next year.
Talkbackers...COMMENCE CASTING!!!
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sounds badass
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...Firsts!
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Hope they dont fuck it up.
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I like my Clash of the Titans with extra cheese.
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Most remakes are made solely because they think they can tell the same story with better FX and make a better film. The original was all about the FX and really nothing else. Harryhausen's stop motion was great but CGIis a different approach so it could be interesting.
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Was there even any point to the mechanical owl`s presence in the original? And were there mechanical owls in Greek mythology?
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For the love of god! Hollywood, showing signs of implosion for quite some time, has finally lost all sense of originality. There is a remake for everything now!!! Good Lord. They're going to start remaking mid-90s movies soon. How about remaking Gladiator. That should win another oscar for ya!!!
Even Cloverfield seems ot be a re-imagining of monster movies. Not to bash Cloverfield since none of us know what it is truly about, but come on!!!!
I DARE Hollywood to make original movies.
And yes, I am a hypocrit, cause I will be in line to see Clash of the Titans, and Escape From New York, and all the other remakes out there. But if cinema is my drug, I have to shoot up with whatever is out there. Even if it is bad -
come on, people. Just come up w/ a new story that mish-mashes stories and characters from mythology.
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Blade was a good movie. LXG was a strange misfire. Not really sure why they're remaking this movie since Clash of the Titans was kind of its own unique popcorn take on Greek mythology, but I'll probably end up seeing it.
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Heh.
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not to sure about this one. i'm a big fan of the original, and i pray this isn't one long demo reel showcasing the cg rather than actually having a story. oh well.
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One Ugly.
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...you found Blade 2 to be inferior to the original? Really? I'm actually interested in your thinking behind that, because I find the sequel to be more watchable and have a greater depth than the first one. While I can't knock the excellent groundwork done by Norrington, his crew and the cast I though del Toro really knocked Blade 2 out of the park. Care to share?
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Always bet on black
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Clash was a personal fave of my pre-pubescent years but is definitely not untouchable in terms of quality. I hope they keep the gods moving the humans like game pieces. The only real shame is the Mickey won't be there to encourage the young Perseus, who should of course be played by everyone's go to 6 pack, Gerard Butler!
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Freddie Muniz for Bubo.
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I feel like is a good pick to direct this unneeded remake. Because Yeah it was made a million years ago pre digital effects. The whole movie seemed kind of cheesy and bland but entertaining non the less. Norrington has proven himself at making entertaining movies with no real heart or depth. I've heard some weird stories about him as a director, does any one know if he really is just some crazy asshole?
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eww merrick, just eww
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I'm interested.
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Come on, he's in EVERY OTHER big hollywood movie right now.... Let him speak in his normal Welsh accent... Or
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I could see that as well. That dude can act and is about to be a big star.. Could be the launching pad for him...
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Gerard Butler for the win! and yes, bring back the owl! hoot hoot
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The Hamlin attack is back!
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Mother's Day is coming up.
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That dude can boring. Like I didn't realize he was the pan creature in Narnia, now that I do, I've realized why I thought that character was fucking horrible. Him becoming a big action star is just not cool. At least Christian Bale looks the part and looks like a big dude. Fuck even Tom Cruise looks like a big dude in his movies? But James McAvoy always looks like an irritating little brother half my size.
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McT for everything! Charlie's Angels rulz 4 eva!
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Says Glen Close or Myral Streep will play Medusa? They've both being working up to that role their entire careers. Or would Medusa have to be young? That chick from Star Trek VI should be Medusa then.
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Period.
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after her head gets lopped off?
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Of course.
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Dude, he was the balls in "Last King of Scottland." I remember him the most from the film. If Tobey Mcguire can hit the juice and put on 30 pounds for spiderman, James McAvoy, who is naturally physically fit, but small yes, can put on size for this.. 3 months of training and a MLB strength trainer and he'll be alright.
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A: the original is great, in a sucky kind of way where no one is that attached to what happened because they basically trod all over the real mythology. B: the effects suck and Harry Hamlin... is well... Harry Hamlin. I hope its better than Gentlemen though.
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Was some of the coolest vampire stuff onscreen in the last decade. The rest of the movie was pretty good, too. LXG, however, was one of the worst movies I've seen in the last decade. Hopefully Norrington pulls his career out of a nosedive with this one. He can make an entertaining film.
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You just stated that Harryhausen's effects suck. For that, may you burn in Hell.
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Blade is an incredibly good comic book movie. It opened a lot of eyes in Hollywood.
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Wheeeee! Jesus I am tired of remakes.
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Bad idea. Just a bad idea. As has been said earlier, they should just make a new original movie about some other Greek myth. There are plenty out there! Why no Bellerophon movie? How about Hesiod's Theogeny? That would be badassssssssss.
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Blades 1 and 2 kicked ass. We can credit the first one with every comic book movie since then.
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watching Andromeda get out of the tub was the most awesome cinematic experience of my life up to that point. This was a good movie, and Harryhousen was the man, but the time of stop motion animation has passed. However, CGI does not a movie make. I love mythology, so I could have done withouta lot of the aspects of this movie, but try cramming Greek mythology into two hours, and I suppose it worked well. Burgess Meredith was awesome as always. RIP Mickey and Larry.
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Do a GOOD remake, and focus on the wonderful mythology which has survived for millenia, but leave the mechanical owl out. Medusa as a snake centaur was a damn awesome idea if not mythologically accurate.
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I'm Kraken up over this...
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...he isn't what I would consider a great director. I mean 'Death Machine' was fun and I give 'Blade' credit for doing Matrix-stuff BEFORE Matrix was made and yes, I kinda like LXG, but I'm not sure if he is the right diretor for this!
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...maybe he finally makes a fantasy movie that doesn't try to rip off LOTR in terms of visual style.
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Wasn't a huge fan of the original, although I know some people really love it. The great part about the original are the effects for the time. I stress "for the time" because, while still fun to watch, are dated by today's standards. A remake is a great idea.
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She's a hag. Skin crawling yet still blecch.
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Dec 14, 2007 1:06:52 PM CST
I will probably lose the 1,7% credibility that I have here, but.
by derlanghaarige
...I liked the LXG movie much more than the comic!
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Heard he was out for good after LXG. I actually rewatched LXG a few months back, much better than I remember. Some of the scenes/sequences were extremely well done. Unfortunately the rest of the thing weighs down anything that's decent. Always funny that Sean Connery past up The Matrix, Lord of the Rings, but did this - and then slept through his entire part. Anyway, Norr's a fantastic director despite LXG and can't wait to see what he does with this.
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...that caused Sean Connery to permanently retire from making movies?
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It's gotten to the point that bitching about remakes getting old is, itself, getting old. Keep Clash pure.
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and... why are they doing this, again?
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Let it go, dude. Hollywood ain't gonna take your dare. Demanding an end to remakes is entirely futile.
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Yeah yeah yeah, Harryhausen is a genius and all that, but seriously, if they were to pass off that kind of effect nowadays this site and its TBers would eat them alive. I love the original, I love the effects "for the time", but come on. Its like how that girl you were porking in High School was hot "for the time" but then you got older, wiser, and better looking and realized you could do a lot better.
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How about 25 C.G.I. Rosie O'Donnells as the snakes on Medusa's head?
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That would be Perseus' battle cry.
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Helen Mirren as Hera, Alessandra Ambrosio as Aphrodite, Shia Leboof as Medusa.
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I thought it was fairly decent. Very good effects and Connery was fine. So what the fuck?
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Yes! Hasselhoff as Perseus. If your gonna remake this lets do it right! I'd hire you on the spot as casting director...if I could.
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The problem is people see films as a strictly auteur eyes. It's a story. No one complains when someone does a play again. "Oh god they're doing Hamlet at the local theater!!! Been there, done that!" No one says, "Hey Sinatra! Didn't Dean already sing that song?" Remakes, sequels, adaptations are all part of the art. Get used to it. Without all those things there would be no Godfather, Scarface, West Side Story, Sutherland Body Snatchers, 300, Batman, the list goes on. People have been telling the same stories since the dawn of time, its just how well you do it each time that matters.
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...I don't care if Norrington ever makes another film. I was heartbroken when I witnessed his wreck of an adaptation of LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN. I loved Alan Moore's original comic book and thought that surely it would make for an amazing film. It's a shame how Moore's outstanding work in comics has continually been adapted into cinematic crap, again and again. I still have high hopes for WATCHMEN, but then again I had high hopes for FROM HELL before I saw how poorly adapted that one turned out.
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... will suck balls, then. Nice to know.
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Yes, i wonder who will be pumping the protein into the Clash Of The Titans remake..........wtf ?
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Tee-hee.
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Dec 14, 2007 2:07:32 PM CST
jimmy rabbitte, good idea, but it wouldn't work
by grammaton cleric binks
Sure that is scary enough to turn you into stone, but she wouldn't be able to lift her head off the ground.
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...He sucked alot less with Death Machine and Blade then he did with Leauge, which I wouldn't blame on him. I thought he quit though? Guess he needs to put in some new carpets or buy a car for his missus.
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Dec 14, 2007 2:10:59 PM CST
Steve Norrington has chosen to release the Kraken and here's why
by det. john kimble
Like many other talkbackers, "Release the Kraken!" is as important to my lexicon of phraseology as anything from The Big Lebowski. I salute all those above me who have released their krakens.
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It was a terrible story, one that had NOTHING to do with the source material and it was fucking boring and non-sensical. My favorite part of that shit-fest? When Quartermain says "We saved Venice." And half of the city is in ruins. Good job, heroes! And why was the story such shit? Because Sean Connery's ego got in the way. He couldn't stand the fact that in the comic version, Quartermain is a heroin-addicted old sot and the leader of the group is Mina Harker, so he had it changed to reflect his "star stature". Don't even get me started on the addition of Tom Sawyer to the group...so fucking stupid!
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If you haven't read the original comic of THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN, chances are you may enjoy the film, find it a mildly charming time-waster. Only those who are familiar with the original source material, only they can understand just how horribly adapted that film is - much the same way that people who are familiar with Tom Wolfe's novel THE BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES know just how bad De Palma's movie version was. I've known people who quite liked De Palma's VANITIES, but they are people who never read the book. THE BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES should have been a truly Great American film.
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So far off the mark, and feel of the comic it wasn't funny. For starters, Mr. Hyde never raped the Invisible Man in the movie. And as a side note, SPOILER, The invisible man's blood reappearing all over Hyde at the dinner table as he died in the other room was amazing in the comic.
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The studio is doing so due to NAME RECOGNITION. It will automaticall draw a certain percentage of box office due to that...as evidenced by the TBers here. COTT is a classic. It is what it is. Its not flawed. Its cinematic history. But hey, it may be fun. Looking foward to some cameos and huge props to Harryhousen.
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Dec 14, 2007 2:41:05 PM CST
5 bucks says Gerard Butler either stars or is rumored..
by reel american hero
to star in this at some point.
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...everyone who's ever worked with him says he's extremely difficult. Maybe the whole LXG debacle taught him something and he's now less full of himself and egomanical. We'll see. For now I welcome him back to the world of filmmaking.
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The original was an abortion of mythology combined with an over the top Lucas style cheesinesses in that asinine owl. Can you believe my kids actually had to watch that movie as part of mythology studies.
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... Not for Sean Connery... he just busted him one in the chops. Wish I was there on the LXG set that day... beaten up by an 80 year old man... hilarious!
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...Where Mr. Hyde cracks open a Martian tripod machine... and slurps down the mollusk-like Martian inside like an oyster on the halfshell!
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I don't see this as having a whole hell of a lot of name recognition. You people tend to not look outside the geek circle. But the fact does remain that COTT used a lot of characters and creatures from Greek mythology and shoved them into a (relatively) new story. So if anyone ever wanted to do the same thing, someone somewhere would inevitably cry that it was a COTT ripoff. So it was probably just easier to remake the original and make whatever changes they wanted. Again, this is one remake I don't have a problem with.
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Dec 14, 2007 3:02:16 PM CST
Gerard Butler as Christian Bale, Christian Bale as Gerard Butler
by sledge hammer
...and then the circle will finally be complete. It's the only way, you know this to be true...
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Oh, it's been done already?
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entertained me a lot more than most action films today - a lot more than Crank or Shoot 'Em Up, for example. It wasn't great, and maybe not good, but the actors were allowed to enjoy themselves, and the audience was given permission to have fun. It's one of only a few action films of late that isn't too cool for school, and I'm grateful. Is it an Alan Moore comic brought to life? No. But I'm not a hundred percent sure I want to see that, anyhow. So far, I've had fun at the theater every time Steve Norrington has got up to bat, and I can't really imagine the studio execs are going to make him get all boring with content like Clash of the Titans. I don't expect to be "wowed," but I expect to have a really good evening out, and to leave the theater feeling good about life. I'm all in. Terry Gilliam will never do an Alan Moore comic - he has too many ideas as it is, so why wait around for the movie he would have made? LXG wasn't even the worst movie that summer, and I liked it a helluva lot more than Bruce Almighty! It had Paul Bettany in suit! It had a zeppelin armada! It was daffy as a treacle crotchwarmer with twice the snap! And of all the Harryhausen fantasies, Jason and the Argonauts is the classic - and none of them were much more than vehicles to hang the stop-motion on. From a directorial standpoint, there's nowhere to go but up! I'm not too cool for school, Steve Norrington! I'll even buy you a beer if you can track me down.
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then slices his face off. Calibos, yes, a vital figure in Greek mythology.
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"It was a nightmare. The director should never have been given $185 million.
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Is he still alive? Is still working?
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Worthy heir to Ursula Andress.
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Perfect bit of casting. Uncanny even.
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Even Blade the Series was better than Blade 3.
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Who better to play Queen of the gods?
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Just because I figure Keira Knightley is probably tired of these types of roles.
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Part of the charm of the original was the stop motion effects, but it'll be interesting to see it with modern effects. This is one remake I'm fairly excited about. It'll be cheesy as hell, but a good fun romp.
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Norrington is absolutely the right guy for this one. Excellent.
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The camp and cheese won't be there. Hollywood doesn't do camp and cheese...at least not very well.
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Natch.
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And how about Jenna Jameson as Charon. Have you seen that skeletal bitch lately?
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I mean, yeah, the Kraken and Medusa were cool but the screenplay was a wash, Mount Olympus looked like a Montgomery Ward's 4th of July sale and what the fuck was Bubo all about? (a surrogate R2-D2?). Jesus, why not remake Robert Altman's POPEYE and get it over with.
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...honestly scared me as a kid. One was Poltergeist. The other was Clash of the Titans. That scene in the catacombs while Medusa's creeping around? I think my pants are still stained from the shit I pressed into them during that scene. The 2008/9 remake? It'll be a CGI shitfest. Guaranteed.
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...that Blade I was better than Blade II. No way, no how. First of all the 2nd one didn't have that douche Stephen Dorff in it. Second, Del Toro was able to make the fight scenes exciting AND scary. C'mon remember that vampire doing the reverse spider walk up the wall after Donnie Yen stuck him with his katana? Priceless!
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I thought it was pretty good, and Blade II is waaaay better than Blade.
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Even if it wasn't RHH's best. It still stands head and shoulders over a lot of the garbage that stands out today.
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if they ditch that stupid windup owl...
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Dec 14, 2007 5:23:17 PM CST
does anyone remember what means 'make new stories'?
by the merciless adriano
What an idiocy.
Guess it will more 'edgy' to be more like to make it like beowulf and see if there is money audience for it.
I will let this one pass. Best moment of my life was seeing Ray harryhausen personally with the Medusa sculpture.
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Maybe we can get Gerard Butler a part...
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Complete with Harry Hamlin's voice and everything. Making it cannon. He tried use that invisible helmet shit on Kratos hehe. Kratos kicked his ass! http://tinyurl.com/2jp7db
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He's really an underrated director. Let's hope he'll be more lucky this thime...
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love Titans is getting attention, but don't want it to be lamed up. Ambivalent as hell...
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This is what happens when people want the 'good ole days' back. I respect proper homages but c'mon hollywood. When you have a buncha people showing up with scripts look for something that's a little different and not with the remake (as a fangoria would call it-- a ripoff).
As for Titans, it was divinely sweet. It had everything. Action, adventure, and good qualiry nude sclupting I'd say that Tim Burton would touch this masterpiece if he was called. Oh, and LXG was underated. *gets off soap box.* -
Dec 14, 2007 6:22:09 PM CST
Remake SuperFuzz with Jean Claude Van Dam. Boxoffice Gold!
by orionsangels
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all of his directorial attempts... are just that, attempts. this movie will be a failure.
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O'Toole is not only working he apparently has 5 movies lined up for next year. The mechanical owl was a 1980s R2-D2 clone, so how about a CG "live" owl this time?
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God fucking dammit, a project with such awesome fucking potential and the biggest dick-picking moron of a filmmaker wannabe gets involved. I had some seriously high hopes which have now been lost. Hope a sandbag falls on his head during the shooting. Prick.
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Terrance Stamp as Zeus! Helen Mirren as Hera! Cate Blanchet as Athena! Daniel Craig as Aries! Meg Ryan as Medusa (and save money on CGI)!
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Perseus: Hugh Jackman (make him a real pompous ass, "Beowulf" style, but has a character change by the end of the movie; ie, make him more interesting than Harry Hamlin)
Andromeda: Natalie Portman
Zeus: Peter O'Toole
Athena: Rachel Weisz (give the back story about Athena and Medusa)
Aphrodite: Angelina Jolie (of course, always flirting with Ares)
And now, the "villains":
Medusa: Scarlet Johansen (give her back story, fucking Poseidon in Athena's temple; a tragic character, mostly)
Calibos: Gerard Butler (against-type; make him the villain instead of the hero)
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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!
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I don't think any other actor has the same powerful voice and gravitas that Stamp could bring to Zeus like Olivier did back in the day. Just imagine him doing Zod but instead as Zeus and you have a jealous and vengeful god, the way Zeus was written to be. I think they should also cast Frank Langella somewhere as well, maybe as Poseidon.
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Do you read, Merrick? The "concept" is Alan Moore's graphic novel. Plenty of pictures in it, so you should do fine. Credit where credit is due, please.
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Norrington is fucking horrible. FUCKING HORRIBLE. Blade was shitola compared with Del Toro's Blade 2 and League was the fuck up to end all fuck ups. I don't particularly care if they're remaking this film but the fact that Norrington is even allowed near a film set suggests to me that this turkey has buttfucked his way back to the directing seat (or, at least - he's swallowed litre upon litre of man glue to achieve that goal). I hope Norrington trips on a cock, falls flat on his face and snaps his neck - I really do. Why? Because I care - I care about audiences and this man should never be allowed to produce another second of soul raping shit ever again. Norrington be gone! The power of Christ compels you! The Power of Christ Compels YOU! THE POWER OF CHRIST COMPELS YOU!
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Wishing for the man's death is a little harsh though! And Merrick, you have no fucking integrity left at AICN. Which is no surprise considering AICN lost its integrity years ago... Thank the gods for CHUD and Dark Horizons and other decent movie news sites....
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Now that'd be my kind of movie!!!
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"Blade" was good. "League" sucked. But, Norrington showed in "Blade" that he can direct cool, good films. He just needs the right script/story. Clash of the Titans is one of my favorite monster films. The brilliant stop-motion Harryhausen effects of the original were so full of "life", so to speak. While I hate the idea of another remake, I'm interested to the creatures, with today's technology. I have doubts the CGI won't be "lively" and have enough "character" as the original's, unless they get WETA. PLEASE GET WETA to do the CGI!!
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Wouldn't it be awesome if they kept stop motion effects in it and brought in either Nick Park or Henry Sellick.
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CRAP
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Er... What are you still doing here then?
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even with stop motion animation. which this movie deserves. not cgi crap. grossly unnecessary.
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...are satanist paedophiles who enjoy torturing small animals and retarded children and eating turducken. They also fart in the tub and bite the bubbles.
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Please!!
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Butt Ugly Bionic Owl
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probably said above, but I'll echo it if not. Although Clash could be good with a big enough budget for good CGI.
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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen was utter SHIT, in the worse possible way. The comics are BRILLIANT. The pacing is not the issue, Merrick you are way way way off.
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Genius!
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Ray Harryhausen's final feature work, simply amazing, very inspiring.
Casting was great, music was upbeat, Bubo was Clash's answer to R2D2, in a time when Star Wars influenced movies & TV. Ursula the goddess cast as a goddess, how appropriate. The great Olivier as Zeus, good choice.
The bad guys were unbelievably great, like Calibos, Medusa and the awesome Krakken. The babe was a beautiful girl, worth rescuing! I loved the end narration, with he constellations, made the epilogue demonstrate the enduring lore of heroism. This was a gem of a movie, the last of the old Hollywood stop motion adventure movies.
New Hollywood producers: take a cue from movies like these. Don’t keep producing downbeat shit movies. Produce something good like Clash of the Titans! I hope to see a collector’s DVD sometime. -
Jack Colby for even suggesting bringing back Bubo. While we're at it let's make a Scrappy Doo movie, and have Jar Jar Binks star in the Star Wars prequel TV show.
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then they would make comparisons to Troy
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For Perseus.
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a better choice for a remake. The fact that Clash of the Titans feels dated and is an imperfect film makes it a better choice because there's room for improvement. If you're going to remake a movie then remake a flawed one with a great premise, not an already great film.
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When I was little, I thought that dude on my dad's morrisson hotel album was the same dude from my fave flick, Clash of the Titans,I have no interest in this remake at all. Next well remake Casablanca...."we will always have Baghdad"
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Great choice for the remake, got real visual flair and the potential to make something really special. Death Machine and Blade showed real promise, gunning for him on this one.
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...we get to see Andromeda's ass. That's one of the things that helped me into puberty growing up. I'll seee this but the original will always be best.
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for tv, and it was exactly as you'd predict it to be: shit plain and simple. a bleak dark look, air-space actors, effects don't even have a charm let alone realistic (hint:CGI).
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Or "unexpected." He's a boring hack of a director who will churn out another forgettable action flick (we hope since LXG was memorable for all the wrong reasons), and another generation will continue to think mediocre crap+CGI is what cool movies are all about. At least the original had Harryhausen's creatures and a few great cast members.
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Oh dear! 1st Blade stunked of shit + it had that Simpleton baddy League of Extraordinary excrement was worse! Just coz you can chuck CG around in a random fashion doesn't mean your movies are any good and as for the original Clash of the Titans lacking Spirit I think you is nuts!?
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"And the sucking of Satan's cock continues..."
by moondoggy2u
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It's gonna OWN.
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should revise his role. I really don't see anyone else in that role. Actually, Tom Welling would be inspired casting.
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instead of this! Is Harry Hamlin free nowadays? He was for the 2nd GOW.
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Just don't cast a Scottsman as a Greek a la Gerard Butler in 300 unless they can lose the accent.
Since i'm not expecting this film to be high-art i'd suggest Milo Ventimiglia be cast as Perseus. Andromeda should be played by Megan Fox but any nice piece of ass will do. Susan Sarandon should play Cassiopaeia or Hera. Athena should be played by Kate Blanchett. Charon should be played by Keith Richards =D -
Vin diesel as Calibos
Terence Stamp is Zues
Angelina Jolie as aphrodite
Susan Sarandon is a good choice for Hera
Megan Fox or Amy Adams as Andromeda
Rhona Mitra as Athena
Bill Nighy as Poseidon
Evangeline Lily as Medusa
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Let's see that movie.
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That was Steve Norrington's first movie, and it was a demented action movie that felt like a cross between ALIENS and a movie version of all thew coolest stories from 2000AD. The Brits will get where I'm coming from.
Steve Norrington's BLADE was one of the greatest ever comic book movies. Period. BLADE 2 was entertaining, but not in the same league. Let's not talk about BLADE: TRINITY.
LXG actualy made BLADE TRINITY look decent. REALLY, let's NOT talk about LXG. If you've read the books, you're aware of how cool that movie COULD HAVE been, amd I don't blame Norrington. If the studio could've found its balls and backed the director over Sean Connery, who's the real reason for fucking up LXG... but studios don't have balls. Which is why we have a writer's strike, and dross like LXG cluttering up the multiplexes.
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I love how Americans don't think of it as another word for semen.
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The Shat for Zeus. James Spader for Ares.
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If this is a remake of a Greek mythology movie, what sets it apart from just a normal movie? Hollywood should just sink into the ocean.
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as to whether or not League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen (the film) is garbage?!??!
Really? Seriously? Are you people retarded? Learn to read and then pick up the comics, it'll be worth it for you. -
If they can re-hash Batman more times than is necessary, why not Clash of The Titans? Look at the hollywood rims...they're spinning and spinning and spinning...
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You just have to ignore the exploding morons.
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was the producers' fault, who were constantly siding with Connery's 'vision'. Norrington: 'They held me baaaaack!'. LXG was still good fun though even WITH the suits all over its production. If they Norrington just do his thing this time, Clash should be pretty cool - at least be up to the level of Mummy 1/Jedi level entertaiment value, right? Right?
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Hey Elgyn, Yes Athena did have a pet owl in the original Greek myth. It is possible that Haphestus could have made a mechanical one. There was no mechanical owl in the original myth, but its creation was possible.
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Honestly I think a "sequel" is a better idea. A "Clash of the Titans" series of movies based on different myths. I don't like the idea of a just a re-make. It's just one more nail in the coffin of Hollywood. I would love to see some movies based on the old myths. Movies based on the original source materials with minimal changes. Not the same crap we always get, but some of the more lesser known ones. Clash of the Titans was a total mish mash of myths thrown together. It was Bellerophon that tamed Pegasus not Perseus, etc. I still loved the original and I would hate to see a CGI butchering of that story. It would fail because I am going to constantly be comparing the two. This is why remakes fail. Halloween failed because people were comparing it against the original. Same with Dawn of the Dead, it failed bcause it was competing against the original. Sequels are one thing, but remakes almost always suck. If you are going with a remake, do one that totally failed initially, like Dune. Dune is crying for a theatrical remake, not Clash of the Titans.
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Yep. Mr. Snipes just enlightened the press that BLADE 3 flopped because the public is racist (no, I'm not kidding). He also blames his pending court case (failure to pay taxes) on--ready for this?--racism. What a tool. I suspect his subsequent films will circumvent any sort of theatrical release (will Snipes eclipse Steve Seagal's sovereignty as the direct-to-video "king"?).
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