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First Photos from the set of CLASH OF THE TITANS in the Canary Islands!
Hey folks, Harry here... I don't know about you, but I've kinda had my fill for now of the traditional ancient warfare movies. There's only so many times you can see Armies of hundreds of thousands of computer controlled characters running into each other. And even if somehow it was the great battles of yore and they managed to employ 100,000 crazy fucks slicing each other up - I'm kinda glad to see Hollywood revisiting the mythological times of yore. With creatures, gods and beasts of all sorts. When the problem ceases to be man against man, man against nature or even man against technology - but instead becomes MAN AGAINST GODS.
It's looking like the first one out of the gates of hell will be Louis Lettier's CLASH OF THE TITANS reboot, which seems to be very different from Harryhausen's - but I'm not sure if that's a bad thing. I love CLASH OF THE TITANS, but I read one draft of this script that was damn compelling and very different from Ray's. Not sure if that draft I read a year ago is close at all to what they're shooting in the Canary Islands at the moment, but I'm excited to see what Louis comes up with. I loved his INCREDIBLE HULK - and after we see this film - we'll be getting more mythology brought to life!
These pics came from Las Horas Perdidas.com where the project is known as De Furia De Titanes. The film is currently shooting and building sets in Tenerife, which you can find in the Spanish Canary Islands! Below are my two fave images from the mix you'll find at the above link!
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Maybe I'll get my wish.
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some cool news
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And first?
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The images seem to be from the 70's...got that retro quality to them..funny
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I am so in.
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Once we find that four-toed statue all will be well.
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Like fuck she did.
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The original was so pitch-perfect awful/wonderful. It would be like remaking Road House.
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And Calabos and Bu-Bo the owl better be faithful to the original
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...but it sure smells good!
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Good job Ain't Cold News.
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Louis Lettier... still in the air with. I think he has good sense, i just thought the cgi in the incredible hulk was dull, this needs the very best effects to work.
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Kracken was here.
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whenever I unzip my pants...
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Those statues seem rather Babylonian to me
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I thought it was going to be Anubis... damn...
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Just as shitty as the original. Now thats how you keep continuity!!
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They actually built a set? No green screen? Is there hope?
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And how much was rewritten? Or better question: How much was true to the original movie?
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Was it Beacham's or a rewrite?
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They fucking built giant practical statues instead of CGIng them or greenscreening models? No fucking way. Are these real?
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Sure, have all the gods and mythical creatures in there, just get Kratos to kill them. And shag some slave wenches. Marvellous.
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looks like its all made out of paper mache, like a cheap star trek set look.
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I read the Lawrence Kasdan draft
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yes, they built statues - which is how photos taken from far away can get online and have the actual statues in them.
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Place your bets!
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i want to go back to yore for some yore and whore.
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The God of War movie... in development hell alongside Bioshock and Halo...
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its in a different, much worse type of hell, where kittens are strangled and kids starve. its being directed by brett ratner.
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It was taken from far away? Maybe the rocks are really tiny:-).
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Nicholas Cage is McKraken! No wait, that's just silly.
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That's exactly how I'd make it! Want a Giant God Dude in your picture? Make a tiny statue, stick it next to some tiny rocks & get a normal guy with sandals to walk around. And add some fraggles just for kicks.
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This tells me that they're going for CG only when necessary. A big step in the right direction, especially a movie with loads of CG.
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Well, you don't want it to be *too* Greek-style. Just imagine if 300 had everyone with their junk hanging out like the comic.
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do it any favors either. He thinks he's so above everything when it comes to current day movie making. He wants to be in the same category as Deniro, Pacino, Beatty, Brando, etc. But those guys came up at different times when you didn't have to do massive publicity. And it will costs him in the long run. Look at what Downey Jr. did and how much better Iron Man did at the box office compared to Hulk. It wasn't even close. And some of it has to go on Norton himself refusing to promote like Jr. did. And I also don't like the director too. He has to prove me wrong.
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That one was lacking on so many fronts come on! Just totally uninteresting and bland. The only got thing about it was Tim Roth, but that's only a compliment to him and his ability to elevate even incoherent drivel (which Incredible Hulk wasn't - it was just bland). Not exited in the slightest for this one.
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and it's FURIA DE TITANES, not 'de furia de titanes.' and screw this shit. Clash of the Titans doesn't need a motherfucking remake
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Sorry, couldn't resist.
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and Harryhausen will add the stop motion creature in later.
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Frank Darabont said you'd see more of this motherfucker, you just wait and see and I am seeing, Frank! She is in this movie, Frank.
Cuz it would be shame if somebody said someone was going places and they never did. -
Make something original! Make PAVLOV'S HOUSE! (caruso_stalker will know what I mean).
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Who gets devoured by Stygian cockroaches off-screen before the prologue. He'd be perfect!
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A lot of Harryhausen´s movies were shot in The Canary Islands.
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Just pick another story from Greek myth. Oh, and Letterier is terrible, in the English sense of the word.
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This looks a bit too Ray Harryhausen.If these are stills from the life sizeset.They've somehow managed to make it look ten inches high and on Rays tabletop.These really have a dodgy seventies production design feel to them , In this post LOTG age and with stuff like Gods of War as a guide...I was expecting something a bit less cheesy.
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Man, I hope they do justice to this. The original COTT, and all the other Harryhausen masterworks, are some of my favourite movies ever.
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"loved" his Incredible Hulk movie. Any positive reviews were just critics seeing Iron Man's glow on it. It had kind of a cool story destroyed by a really bad script and hackneyed direction. The fight was cool. South America was cool. That was all.
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May 06, 2009 4:53:06 AM CDT
If you don't know what lies in the shadow of those statues..
by malificus
..then you got no business on that island.
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This looks suspiciously like a clone of an ancient site in Turkey. Check out:
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if it's going to look like a bad matte painting?
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You just reinvented forced perspective...with fraggles. Way to go.
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All statues must have at least four toes for me to acknowledge them.
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That would make for an awesome movie.
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Multi-ethnic gods this time?
Morgan Freeman as Zeus, Kris Kristofferson as Poseidon, and Salma Hayek as Aphrodite.
Yeah, Ogre, and Amy Winehouse as Medusa - that shit'd be scary.
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But it looks so much like Ancient Greece.
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It just didn't deliver the action, and the story and characters weren't compelling. Nice try, though.
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Kalish is right.These things are a rip-off of a Turkish site...check out this image and compare to one of the heds on the statues..http://www.flickr.com/photos/zen quest/626382935/
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Hmmmmm,
Well we can't judge a movie just from seeing what looks to be part of a "Real World/Non-CG" set.
I loved the original "Clash of The Titans" even though it is totally cheesy..but hey, it is a Ray Harryhausen flick! (I once met Ray Harryhausen as a kid at a Sci Fi Conventions and he was a total mean Old Man prick to me too when I came up and asked for his autograph..hated him for it, but still love his old movies)
Who knows? Hopefully this re-make/re-envisioning will actually be pretty damn good?
I am going to keep an open mind, wait to see some future on the set set pics and trailers of the movie once it gets closer to release.
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Great land. It has a Volcano in the middle of the island that you can drive/tram up.
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...insanely Harryhausen-esque! Might this remake actually be cool, Harry?
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For using practical sets. Keep it up.
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I know they're real statues, but something about those photos makes them look like CGI.
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Is for my money still the best special effect on screen. I know it's just a clay model, and yet everytime I see it, the sequence still makes me squirm. Lettier most likely has written a better script --Andromeda was a washout last time--but man o man are the special effects guys going to have to sweat blood on this one.
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why?
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Do the women scream in terror too?
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I think a remake COULD be awesome. It could be a fucking travesty, let's just hope it's not.
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People loved the TV show with a real human actor in green paint, and everyone seems to hate both attempts at a movie with a horrible CGI creation. The audience doesn't relate with this fake CGI beast. I see the trailers and instead of getting pumped up, I say "meh" because it looks fucking terrible. You need a real human Hulk who is massive, and then use LotR techniques and camera angles to film him to appear even larger.
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Guard well this shield, for one day it will guard your life.
Give us back The Eye!
The stars will never fade. They will burn till the end of the time.
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Don't you worry. FOX will get in there and put their stink all over this and we'll all be let down in 2 years. Poor Louis.
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I prefer the Ang Lee one.
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for this. I really hope it doesn't skimp on the huge monsters. I also hope it doesn't become a cartoon. It's a tricky balance to strike.
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I mean damn.
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Was it this guy or Corey Yuen? It's going to be the Poltergeist of our time.
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Dont' say things like "EVERYONE seems to hate both attempts at a movie with a horrible CGI creation." A lot of people seem to like each for different reasons. I lean toward the last one but try to leave the rest of the human race out of the equation to explain YOUR personal taste(s). Having a real person and using different techniques to make the hulk is a good idea but the 70's show was far from what I would want to see in a modern hulk movie. Saying the Audience doesn't relate to a CG character means no one related to a character like Gollum??? They obviously can if it's done correctly.
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May 06, 2009 11:05:28 AM CDT
Does the remake have Andromeda walking out of the bathing pool?
by me_m
That, and Sheena's bathing scene, were very interesting for PG movies. Only matched by the G rated Sinbad movie that had Power and Seymour lounging without clothing.
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what now?
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The movie didn't deliver any action? Maybe you got Hulk and Iron Man confused. Iron Man didn't deliver the action, just witty dialogue and two cool action scenes. The Incredible Hulk didn't let down with the action the entire time. I had so much fun with that film. This movie will be bad ass. I agree, it's not a necessary remake, but it will be bad ass. Mark my words.
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Middle Statue looks early Egyptian, and the one on the right looks somewhat Sumerian/Assyrian. The one on the left looks like some asshole in a smurf hat.
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You lose credibility not proofreading, and I doubt directors (or anyone) like to see their names spelled incorrectly.
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They look like they came from the original and I LOVE that! I hope they do as many "physical" special effects as possible and keep the visual effects at minimum to none.
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they managed to still give them a miniature forced perception look to them. The first pic with the pure blue sky and craggy rockside looks like a vintage Harryhausen set up. I remember years ago when Rob Cohen had announced a Keanu Reeves Sinbad movie with Harryhausen's participation. I think it blew up for budget concerns. Is Harryhausen a consultant or exec producer on this?
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would be Sean Connery as Zeus. C'mon, its a couple days shooting sitting in a throne. With some disco blue laser lighting behind you...I love..LOVE, Harryhausen's '50s and '60s work, and have a fondness for Titans although a lot of it is cheesy as hell. Always loved seeing the Kraken shot in the opening credits of Malcolm In The Middle
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name right ffs...this is a film site
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One, it's a re-make, re-imagining, re-whatever. I'm against them on principle. Considering the original was memorable only for camp value - and one would assume they're ditching that - it could be argued a serious film based on Greek mythology should have a different title, anyway.
Two, directed by the HO-HUM HULK guy? Fool me once, shame on me, um, fool me twice, then, um, you shouldn't try to fool me, hehehe. -
I think you're right. Nic Cage is Phil McKracken!!!
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I've met Ray as well.He came into the Forbidden Planet Movie shop in New oxford st ,London.(to look at he various kits based on his creatures} And he was a tad on the miserable side ,to say the least!But Hey , he created some classic movie moments and is an FX legend!
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These statues aren't cutting it for me. There's something "off" about them.
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---well I think so anyways. I liked the original but a reboot is okay by me. Hulk last year was okay too--
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Must be the 8th wonder of the ancient world.
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Danny Houston, Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Sam Worthington (busy guy), Jason Flemyng (just caught Ben Button last night), Mads Mikkelson...OK, this just got a lot more interesting. I'm generally against remakes, but Titans is not an untouchable "classic", despite some groundbreaking Harryhausen work.Sorry to hear he's such a grumpy old man in public. Does he and Bradbury sit on the front porch, yelling at the kids on the lawn?
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Isn't the story supposed to take place long before the existence of classical Greek architecture?
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I have no faith in remakes, even though I finally agree (much UNLIKE Halloween), this one is actually ripe for a remake.
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this is reboot/remake/whatever is kind of iffy to me. It can go either way. Nothing much right now to actually start making any kind of judgement. But original is a classic for a reason. But there is room to add more of the mythology to it. But again this can go either way right now. I'm hoping that it does justice to the original while adding to it. Let's hope(yet again) that Hollywood doesn't fuck up another classic movie.
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There is just no pleasing some people I guess. How about we bash it when we see what it looks like on film?
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That's what you call a stoner-boner. Ruined the whole reference to the hilarious rumor that Cage was going to play Submariner.
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And he actually turns to stone at the end! He's that good!
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Hopefully this'll be somewhat entertaining. At least the original is a fun, but not really "classic" movie.
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AND I BRING YOU BOOBIES(BIG ONES)
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I agree, Fa. CLASH was campy, ridiculous fun--nothing more. Remake away, I says. No one's treading on sacred ground here.
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Is because these statues are a copy of what can be found at Mt Nemrut in central Turkey. They were made by the Kommagene Dynasty which was crushed by the Roman Empire. Seach for it, they are identical, just the real ones have the heads nocked off after some achaeologist thought dynamite would be a good way to look for treasures behind the statues.
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based on these pics... not impressed yet - but I'll reserve judgement coz I quite liked the original and I'd like to believe this will at least... not suck
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...tok me five whole minutes to get that mental picture out of my head. Wow.
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'took', obviously. D'oh!
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I mean, for the sake of authenticity they DID have an army of slaves (preferably Hittite though you could get away with Neo-Hittite) assemble those statues by means of rope and pulley right? It matters in the overall feel of the thing even if the audience doesn't notice. And yes, they definitely raped my precious memories of Nemrut Dagi, the wonderful 1st-century Greco-Persian hierothesion in southeast Anatolia. The bastards.
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http:// millionmonkeytheater . com/ClashoftheTitans.html. Hilarious blow-by-blow examination of the film with plenty of screen caps. While he notes the Malcolm in the Middle connection, he does not fully explain just what a Norse monster like the Kraken is doing in a film about ancient Greek mythology. Some things are meant to be mysteries.
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