Ashley over at MovieHole got a chance to talk to soon-to-be-star Sam Worthington over the weekend at a junket for his upcoming film Terminator Salvation, in which he stars opposite Christian Bale. In addition to fielding questions about the film he is out there to promote, Worthington was also pelted with questions about upcoming projects, including whether or not he’s still got his finger on the pulse of the title role in Green Lantern.
On Lantern, Worthington said that he’s still waiting on a script, but made no comments that would disqualify his candidacy:
‘’I've been talking to (director) Martin Campbell about it”, Worthington says. ‘’It’s one of those things where they’re still doing the script. I said, “Give me a script. Let me have a look at it.” I like Martin a lot. I met him on the Bond stuff, and I like his work, but the second step is, “Is it a movie that I’d go and see?”
As you may note, Worthington appears to be on a short list of candidates for the lead role in Lantern, right up there with the recently rumored Bradley Cooper and with the press junket for Cooper’s latest film The Hangover looming next weekend and press continuing for Terminator, I have a feeling that we may get spun around a few more times on this situation before any definite casting announcement is made.
Worthington, the star of James Cameron’s upcoming sci-fi opus Avatar, also talked about a project that he’s already begun filming, Louis Leterrier’s Clash of the Titans remake. Speaking briefly, he expanded on some of the film’s size as well as his own feelings about wearing a toga:
“We’ve been filming it for two weeks now and I’m more bruised and battered than I was on Terminator. We’ve taken on Medusa, we’ve taken on the witches, and then we just kill everything else. It’s a bit more brutal. There’s no togas, or there’s very little togas. I said, “I’m not wearing a toga. Bugger that!” You can’t look manly in a toga, I’m sorry. I couldn’t do it. Louis is a very good action director, so it’s going to be exciting and big, and my job is to bring the heart.”
“Clash of the Titans” remake? Really? To me that feels like they are, again, trying to cash in on my childhood memories.
Couldn’t they have just made a whole new movie based off of Greek Myth?
While we tend to agree with the sentiment ‘Cashing in on my childhood’ as Hollywood seems to do that so often lately. On the other side.. with advances in effects and with a more formidable cast that can truly act, we feel that a Titans remake is long overdue and may give it more credibility than the now hokey original.
Yeah, but the original was done by Ray Harryhausen! The story is a cheese rip off of the Perseus myth anyway, one of the reasons that I love the original was because of its almost B movie status, kind of a B+ or A- movie.
I mean there are so many Greek myths that they could turn into a decent movie now a days, taking a movie that (to me anyways) was cool because of its borderline status and trying to make it more seems like your playing with fire. Don’t you think that in order to make it more credibility their going to almost have to completely rebuild the story? If you are going to have to do that then you might as well take the leap and make something brand new.
Just my 2 yen. :D
That’s absolutely a fair point, it’s B movie status has always been a part of it’s charm and since this will most likely be virtually new, maybe they should rename it.
Unfortunately, knowing the studios if they heard the outcry to change the name it would end up being ‘Clash of the Titans: Reloaded’ or something stupid like that.
We will see, it may end up being a great homage to the original while standing on it’s own.. stranger things have happened.
We always appreciate your 2 yen, Thanks!