After a couple of quite shiny trailers for Louis Letterier’s Clash of the Titans remake, it’s become clear that the new film definitely remembers its origins. For children of the 80′s who had the original burned into their memory banks, all of the main players are there; Zeus, Perseus, Medusa, Pegasus, The Kraken.
What has remained more elusive through these rock-heavy fx montages is what story the new picture is trying to tell. With quick flashes of an angry Zeus and taglines like ‘Damn the Gods’, it was suggested that in this variation Worthington as Perseus would be fighting against, not for, Mt. Olympus.
Now we have a new international trailer that keeps most of the same beats as that last U.S. one, but offers up more in the way of plot particulars. Here we have Zeus growling ‘This is the end’ and Andromeda defiantly proclaiming ‘The gods need us. They need our worship. What do we need from them?’
The rest of the trailer keeps up with the others by featuring the usual array of battles, monsters and crumbling statues. And Ralph Fiennes is getting his name in the credits at last! Of all the recent remakes this is one of the few that has my attention. Sign me up on March 26th.
