Clash of the Titans Remake: Thetis vs Hades

It’s retro vs new, stop clay animation vs cutting age cgi. Hollywood is still addictive to remakes and it seems it won’t give up the fight. Especially if what’s worth fighting for, might pour in some good dough in these harsh economic times.  So it was just a matter of time, almost 29 years later to see how Clash of the Titans would step in for the next blockbuster revamp match. Looks like the new 2010 Clash of the Titans remake is going to challenge the original 1981 version one in the ultimate clash of Olympic “egos”.

Conflict zone in the original 1981 movie, was based on Perseus “titanic” quests to save Andromeda from Poseidon’s bad tempered sea pet, the Kraken.
Of course none of this would’ve happened, if Perseus didn’t fall in love for Andromeda which was reserved as “bride material” to the hideous beast: Calibos. It was a sort of a beauty and the beast thing, only that Andromeda didn’t have the likes for Calibos, who resulted to be the son of a very pissed off Goddess, known by the name of Thetis.
By not liking her “handsome” son, Thetis condemns Andromeda to be “sea food” for the big monstrous Kraken. So at Mount Olympus a death game is played between an angered Thetis and a concerned Zeus, in what it seems to be the ultimate “olympic chess”.  Thetis does her “godly” moves so that the semi mortal Perseus would fail at any cost and Zeus, father of Perseus aides his mortal son in doing whatever he could do, so his “loving” kid would prevail victorious over any of Thetis “nasty moves”. The rest as you know it is history.

What’s the point of doing a remake if you can’t do it with a twist?  Staring Sam Worthington as the new Perseus, the 2010 Clash of Titans will be a match between Zeus and his Underworld brother Hades, performed by Ralph Fiennes.  From Jedi Knight to Olympic God, Liam Neeson as Zeus sets Perseus on a quest to stop his infernal brother Hades, from unleashing what he knows best to do… hell on earth. Of course on the remake will have a smoking Andromeda played by the bad ass Riddick girl: Alexa Davalos, and from ruler of vampires to ruler of the sea; from 30 days of Night will have Danny Huston as Poseidon: God of the Sea and brother to Zeus and Hades. Only time will tell if Hades “new” treacherous moves are better than Thetis old school ones. So when “terminator Perseus” sets for a “titanic” adventure on March 26 on next year, the only God exercising judgement day on the Clash of the Titans will be yourself. You’ll determine the fate of the Olympian Gods, by telling if the 1981 original version is still heavenly good or the 2010 remake version is infernally great, or neither way.