Post by The Ultimate Nullifier on Dec 24, 2013 17:05:22 GMT -6
If you enjoyed the 2010 remake of Clash of the Titans or its 2012 sequel Wrath of the Titans, we have some bad news for you: There won’t be a third film in the fantasy franchise in the near future.
“In terms of Clash of the Titans 3, it’s one of those situations where we’ve seen it a million times; a movie will kind of float away and then come back when it’s supposed to come back,” Producer Iwanyk told IGN.com. “You’d think that there was three and a half, four years of nonstop Clash of the Titans activity, and I think it is, ‘OK, what’s the new idea? How do you make it fresh?’ You know, a lot of movies have come out in that world, including Immortals and 300. So there will be a time and place where someone will come up with a great idea for it and how to make it feel different and fresh from the previous ones. Then we’ll hopefully move forward on that.”
The move doesn’t come as a huge surprise considering Wrath made $305.2 million worldwide while its predecessor Clash — a remake of the 1981 classic — earned $493.2 million. Iwanyk says they do have plans to explore the mythology of Egypt on the big screen with the Alex Proyas-directed Gods of Egypt.
“The simplest way to say it, because it’s the Egyptians myths, is the world is a lot more through the eyes of Alex Proyas, so it’s a lot more fantastical,” Iwanyk said. “We call it ‘Planet Egypt.’ We’re shooting the entire thing on green screen in Sydney. But it’ll be photo-real green screen, not stylized like 300. People will wonder, like, ‘Where the hell did you shoot that?’ And it’s a lot more of an adventure movie, like The Thief of Bagdad, those old movies. Clash was a very serious movie. Gods of Egypt I think is a lot more Raiders and Pirates than it is those movies. But it’s an incredible world. So yeah, that goes on March 23rd.”
“In terms of Clash of the Titans 3, it’s one of those situations where we’ve seen it a million times; a movie will kind of float away and then come back when it’s supposed to come back,” Producer Iwanyk told IGN.com. “You’d think that there was three and a half, four years of nonstop Clash of the Titans activity, and I think it is, ‘OK, what’s the new idea? How do you make it fresh?’ You know, a lot of movies have come out in that world, including Immortals and 300. So there will be a time and place where someone will come up with a great idea for it and how to make it feel different and fresh from the previous ones. Then we’ll hopefully move forward on that.”
The move doesn’t come as a huge surprise considering Wrath made $305.2 million worldwide while its predecessor Clash — a remake of the 1981 classic — earned $493.2 million. Iwanyk says they do have plans to explore the mythology of Egypt on the big screen with the Alex Proyas-directed Gods of Egypt.
“The simplest way to say it, because it’s the Egyptians myths, is the world is a lot more through the eyes of Alex Proyas, so it’s a lot more fantastical,” Iwanyk said. “We call it ‘Planet Egypt.’ We’re shooting the entire thing on green screen in Sydney. But it’ll be photo-real green screen, not stylized like 300. People will wonder, like, ‘Where the hell did you shoot that?’ And it’s a lot more of an adventure movie, like The Thief of Bagdad, those old movies. Clash was a very serious movie. Gods of Egypt I think is a lot more Raiders and Pirates than it is those movies. But it’s an incredible world. So yeah, that goes on March 23rd.”