Talking with Moviefone this weekend, the Aussie native acknowledged that Clash had its shortcomings. But he fully intends to rectify those with sequel Wrath Of The Titans.
“I just think we can improve on it,” he says. “I think the first one, we kind of let down some people. And yeah, I totally agree. The only point of doing a sequel is either the audience demands it or you believe you can better the first one.
“What we’re setting out to do with this one — the writers and the director and myself — is improve.”
Worthington goes on to add that he thinks he “can act fucking better, to be honest…” Meanwhile, it seems he’s been trawling the net to find out just what went wrong in the eyes of moviegoers.
“[I'll] take all the notes from people that I have been reading about on the ‘net and give them a movie they fucking want,” he says. “This one I want to kind of try to satisfy a lot more people.”
Wrath indeed...
Ridley Scott isn’t the only one making a belated return to the Alien film franchise with his upcoming prequel – celebrated concept artist H.R. Giger is also set to return.
The Swiss surrealist, of course, was integral in the creation of the xenomorph in the first Alien movie – and bagged an Oscar for his efforts.
Now, Giger’s wife Carmen Scheifele has revealed that he will be re-teaming with Scott to work on the film’s 3D prequel.
Which makes sense, considering the prequel is set to go back to before the beginning, and explore the origins of the first film’s infamous Space Jockey.
Previously, Giger felt that his work on fourth Alien film Resurrection was so badly interpreted that he had his name scrubbed from the credits.
We're sure Scott will treat whatever genius stuff Giger comes up with for the prequel with the utmost gooey respect.
Dan Brown will be personally adapting his book The Lost Symbol, the third in his Da Vinci Code saga, for the big screen.
Previously, Steven Knight had been hired to write the script adaptation for the third film in the series, but now Brown has taken the reigns.
Neither Tom Hanks – who played Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon in The Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons – nor director Ron Howard have yet signed on for Lost Symbol.
But considering their first two films made over $1.24bn at the worldwide box office, we’re sure they’ll get some pretty hefty offers to come back.
Lost Symbol sees Langdon unravelling mysteries around the Freemasons during a 12-hour quest in Washington, DC.
Directors Breck Eisner and McG are neck-and-neck in their bid to turn spooky board game Ouija into a movie.
Both have pitched their takes on the project to Universal Pictures – McG this Friday, Eisner the week before. Now all they can do is sit back and wait as the studio decide whose concept is better.
Why so much kerfuffle over a movie about a spirit board? Well, the studio are hoping to create the next Indiana Jones or Pirates Of The Caribbean with Ouija.
Instead of taking the concept into supernatural horror territory, Universal are planning on making a big budget adventure film.
They’ve already set a release date of 9 November, 2012, which means they’ll have to make a decision pretty soon.
Who’s best suited to the job? Both directors have had their duffs, but both also have the aptitude and experience to take something this big on.
McG, if nothing else, is always ambitious, while Eisner’s The Crazies was a surprisingly effective take on the zombie genre.
If only a to-the-death cagefight between the two directors was utilised to make the final decision. Now that’s something we’d pay to see…
Filmmakers have been trying to adapt Stephen King's The Dark Tower series for years, and in September it was confirmed that Ron Howard would be the latest director to have a stab at the project.
Howard is taking a unique approach to King's rich and complex series; the novels are extremely dense, and draw from influences as diverse as The Lord of the Rings and Sergio Leone's spaghetti westerns.
Howard's adaptation is set to take the form of three movies (of which he'll direct the first at least), with an additional two television series airing between the films.
Akiva Goldsman is on scripting duties for the mammoth project, but it's not sure what Howard will direct beyond the initial movie.
Talking about the project, Howard said: "Filmically, there are tones in this that I've never used before, tones of fantasy menace and elements of horror and real fear. And there's the burden, on the characters, of this journey that's really palpable. That's what we need to get on the screen.
"I think there's something about Green Mile or a Shawshank Redemption, the complexity and the ballast of them, those are two [King adaptations] where you do get the horror and suspense that's there on the page."
Interestingly, in another Frank Darabont King adaptation, The Mist, there's a cheeky nod made to The Dark Tower via a film poster.
Talking about the large-scale, cross-media approach to the project, Howard adds: "It's different to anything I've ever done and in really interesting ways... There's this entire world and all of these references and there are the books and the graphic novels and just talking to Stephen and it's all this ongoing conversation with the material and it's really exciting.
"In all of it, he leaves a lot open to interpretation and so it gives a great deal of latitude."
Source: FirstShowing
