Exclusive: Clash Of The Titans Pics And more from the cast and crew
Yesterday we brought you the new Empire cover with Sam Worthington's Perseus; today we can bring you a whole pantheon of new stills from Clash of the Titans. Two things should immediately become clear: this is not the Titans you remember, and this Perseus is not the sort of person who sports long, floaty locks and then goes off to become a lawyer.
"What I wanted to do was just tell a very human story," says director Louis Leterrier. "Yes, I was really interested in doing the big monster fight at the end of that, but what was really interesting for me was the human side of it. Perseus is a conflicted hero, he hates it, which is so much better than a 'real' hero. The original Perseus is embracing it and takes the weapons Zeus gives him."
"He's just your golden hero that you're meant to follow," says Worthington of the old Perseus. "I feel when my Perseus starts out, he should be this bombastic tank. The gods have killed his family. He's Charles Bronson! He's gonna go for revenge, and the best way to achieve that is to kill the Kraken. Well, to kill the Kraken you gotta kill Medusa. To get to Medusa, you gotta take on the witches. Then once he kills the Kraken, he's gonna kill fuckin' Hades and Zeus and everybody else! But along the way he needs to learn to calm down, ask for help. And out of that comes the true hero. A hero isn't someone who leads men; a hero is someone that's in the trench with the men."
Worthington also assured us that "we're not in fuckin' Harryhausen mode anymore", which we're choosing to see as an affirmation of the film's "grittiness" rather than a slight to the stop-motion legend.
Click the image above for a larger version plus an exclusive sneak preview inside the new issue of Empire
For more on filming and to find out who had the best Greek accent in the cast, pick up the November issue, out now. Yes, we know we're saying that a lot recently, but there's a lot of news to talk about in this issue.
Great! So not only do they diss the classic Harryhausen version by turning it into a revenge flick (maybe it should be called "Kill Zeus, Vol 1), but also rip the plot off from the video game trilogy, God of War, which is being turned into a film in the near future. ... Read More
This seems atmospheric and sets look really good but they have it all wrong for male lead? Gael Garcia would have been better!!! The Original won't be beaten know!! ... Read More
I LOVE the original, along with Jason &...it was always a school holiday fave! It'd be a shame if it's all very po faced though and they suck all the fun from it.
And, personally, I'm of the opinion that Mr Hamlin looked WAY cooler and more fitting to the setting that this potty mouthed Worthington fellow! :)
Next big thing? Hmmm, time will tell... ... Read More
pardon the pun, but from what Worthington is saying about the plot, it sounds like a rip-off of the GOD OF WAR games for PS2. Isn't GOD OF WAR getting its own film? It would make sense, what with the arrival of Prince of Persia! ... Read More
If he fucks it up he fucks it up, nowt we can do about it. Then everyone's gonna be going crazy about this new CLOTT being the best 'action' film ever..................doesn't anyone read anymore?! ... Read More
Got to agree with the majority of comments - don't diss the hause! For someone who was brought up on on the likes of Clash of the Titans, Jason and the Argonauts , the Sinbad films etc those types of comments don't give me the feeling that this could be a great fun film.
And why oh why does every remake or reboot or whatever now have to come with the obligatory "this is gonna be darker, "grittier" "more realistic" B.S. I for one didn't realise how much I missed good old fashioned fun f... Read More
