Clash Of The Titans remake in the works
 

In another round of remake mania at Warner Bros. they've taken the next step in their redux of CLASH OF THE TITANS. They announced a while ago they wanted to remake the flick and now they've hired Travis Beacham to script the thing. Beacham's an up and comer whose original script KILLING ON CARNIVAL ROAD is in the works with Guillermo del Toro directing.

http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=23178

Raph's Girl note: Altho Im very pissed that they're remaking one of my fave movies, Im just imagining all the CGI that it's gonna have. Particularly for Medusa, the Kraken, Pegasus, the talking head of the statue of Hera, Dioskilos could easily be Cerebrus now...It should be interesting what all they do with it. But Im still mad that they would even think of making a remake. :ohwell:

Why not remake it? The movie was simply an adaptation of the famous myth of Perseus. The basic stories from ancient myths have and will continue to be re-presented and re-adapted as audiences age and change. Plus, anything that educates and informs people who may not have known otherwise gets a thumbs up from me.

Though I would like to see someone try honouring Ray Harryhausen in this movie by going with stop motion instead of CGI when it came to the monsters. That'd be pretty kick ass if they could swing that. I think Guillermo del Toro has the sort of direction that would lend well to an epic story like this, but I don't expect it to become the next LOTR.

Troy has left a very bad taste in my mouth and I can already see the CGI from here. Still, it's a cool concept and if done right it could be an awesome movie.

I really don't see what was so bad about Troy.

I agree w/ you Peanut. I think troy was seriously underrated.

You don't see what was so bad about Troy? Ok let me point out the things wrong with it.

1: No Cassandra. Helloo! Important character in the story missing here! Whoohoo? Where is she?

2: Aeneas reduced to one friken scene in the end of the movie. A major character in the story, a relative (a cousin) of Priam, ancestor of Caesar himself, leader of one of the armies fighting for troy, reduced to one scene where Achiles gives him the sword. I mean come on.. Aeneas is majorly important. Ever read the Aenid? :P
http://www.pantheon.org/articles/a/aeneas.html

3: The Sword of Troy? Who thought that stupid thing up?!

Ok I can handle there not being any gods. Altho they might have slipped one in. Note how Achilles mom (a water goddess in the myth) is only shown in the water.

And I love the subtle thing they did with the Achille's heal thing. But reducing a major character like Aeneas and not even having Cassandra at all in the story just ticks me off to no end. Plus in the movie the war only lasted for like 4 weeks. :roll:

Introducing things like the sword of Troy and the female cousin priestess gal who got it on with Achilles was just lame.

Ok. You're basing your arguement on the fact that you know quite a bit about the mythology. You're just being like the LotR and Harry Potter fans who complain about stuff being changed, added/taken out of the book. Not that there's anything wrong with that. As I did it for The Goblet of Fire.

But I believe, as a movie, without having to think about interpretations from another form, it was good.

So do you have any reasons to not like the film, besides changes to the basic story? You're not really knocking the movie, as much as you're knocking the process of turning a story from a different form into film. Really, I think that's what happens to all movies that are picked up from somewhere else. You're never going to get the exact same story once it's translated to film.

I didn't like the movie because in my opinion it had poor acting, strained dialogue, a disjointed plot, cliched action sequences, characters that kept changing personalities between scenes, a director that couldn't choose between realism and mythology, and an overall sense of crappiness. Not familiar with the source material, so I don't care about that.

Didn't really want to get into that, but since you asked. :ohwell:

Well that's a much better answer.