Yesterday producers Mark Canton, Gianni Nunnari and Bernie Goldmann revealed to Collider that they had landed director Tarsem Singh (The Fall, The Cell) to helm War of Gods, a new Greek mythology epic which will be filmed like 300.
Relativity Media paid mid-six against seven figures for the script by Charley and Vlas Parlapanides. The official logline follows: “A purported bastard who retains an allegiance to his mother despite the fact that he longs to join the quest of a king who is battling demons in ancient Greece later embarks on a grail of discovery that has him finding he is the king’s son and also fated to become his country’s [...]

The list of the directors rumored to be involved with the remake of Clash of the Titans has included Sam Raimi (Spider-Man) and Robert Rodriguez (Sin City). The screenplay was penned by screenwriting legend Lawrence Kasdan, you know, the guy who wrote Empire Strikes Back and Raiders of the Lost Ark. And finally tonight, Warner Bros has announced the big name director attached to the project:
Steve Norrington.
Wait, Who?!??
You know, the guy who directed the horrible 2003 adaptation of Alan Moore’s The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Yeah, I had no idea either. He also directed the original comic book adaptation of Blade, which was good (but not great).
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In the story of big budget remake of Barbarella, Universal and Robert Rodriguez split over budget issues or his refusal to cast anyone other than his girlfriend Rose McGowan in the lead role (depending on what story you read). The director’s attempts to lower the budget from $80 million to $60 million have thus far been unsuccessful. And with a writers strike now in effect, the project is probably on hold indefinitely. So what is Rodriguez to do?
LatinoReview has heard that Warner Bros is interested in having the Sin City director tackle the Clash of the Titans remake. A while back it was reported that Raiders and Empire screenwriter Lawrence [...]

IESB is on a roll this week reporting some juicy rumors. I wonder how many will actually pan out. The latest one is that Warner Bros has offered Sam Raimi a multi-picture deal which includes the Clash of the Titans remake. As of press time, Raimi has not accepted the deal. The Spider-Man director is also supposedly being courted by New Line to make a big screen adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit, and by Sony for Spider-Man 4. While I could definitely see Raimi’s interest in the project, he could just be using this as a bargaining chip for a better deal on one of the other projects.
In April, [...]

Lawrence Kasdan has been hired to write a remake of the 1981 cult classic Clash of the Titans for Warner Bros.
Kasden was a legendary screenwriter whose credits included Return of the Jedi, The Empire Strikes Back, Raiders of the Lost Ark and The Big Chill. The once great screenwriter has had a run of bad luck in the last ten years, turning out two films (and only two films) that were less than successful Mumford and Dreamcatcher. It’s exciting to imagine that Kasden will make a huge comeback (both creatively and financially) with this one.
The original Desmond Davis film was an adaptation of the myth of Perseus which told his [...]