Sam Worthington On The Creatures And Realism In WRATH OF THE TITANS

Sam Worthington On The Creatures And Realism In WRATH OF THE TITANS

The actor says that he's seen the sequel to 2010's Clash Of The Titans, saying that it's definitely an improvement on the first film. He also comments on the CG creatures, the realism, and what the film is really about at its heart.

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By PaulRom - Jan 06, 2012 02:01 PM EST
Filed Under: Action
Source: Collider



Speaking with Collider, Sam Worthington - who reprises his Clash Of The Titans role of 'Perseus' in the upcoming sequel, Wrath Of The Titans - talks in detail about how different the sequel is from the critically panned predecessor, saying that he felt like he managed to correct the flaws that he had in the first film in the sequel. He reveals that he's seen the film already, calling it 'awesome' and a blockbuster. He also talks about the father-son relationship plot, saying that's what the film is really about despite the monsters and its being a Greek mythological film. For much more from Worthington (specifically on his upcoming film Thunder Run), click the link below.

On Seeing Wrath Of The Titans...
I’ve seen the movie, it’s awesome. I love it. It’s the same world [as Clash of the Titans]; it’s got big [frick]in’ monsters, it’s a blockbuster. Everything that I personally felt that I’d let down in the first one, I got the chance to rectify.

On The Realism Of The Film And The CG Characters...
He wanted that, he wanted to be like a Ridley Scott kind of feel. [Liebesman’s approach to] putting CG characters into this kind of world [was that] it shouldn’t seem as if the CG characters are the whole thing, we got the creatures in there but they’ve gotta mesh with what we’ve set up, rather than us going to them they had to mesh with us.

On The Father-Son Relationship Storyline...
Primarily what it is, it’s about fathers and sons. It just happens to have a shit load of monsters, it just happens to be set in a Greek mythological world, but essentially it’s about a father and a son, that’s what it’s about.

Wrath Of The Titans is set to hit theaters March 30th, later this year.






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Nick56
Nick56 - 1/6/2012, 3:24 PM
good to hear. im looking forward to seeing it.
MarkCassidy
MarkCassidy - 1/6/2012, 3:36 PM
The trailer was already better than the entire first movie, so were the following: Green Lantern, TF3, being kicked in the nuts by the Hulk.
MoonDoggyX
MoonDoggyX - 1/6/2012, 3:37 PM
The movie looks awesome! The sleeper hit of next year, definitely...
MoonDoggyX
MoonDoggyX - 1/6/2012, 3:40 PM
Really, Ror...? TF3 was easily one of the best movies last year... at least top 5. There's a reason people love those movies. Are you trolling for Go-Bots or something...?
MarkCassidy
MarkCassidy - 1/6/2012, 3:48 PM
There's a reason lots of people like Adam Sandler movies too, doesn't mean they're good.
MoonDoggyX
MoonDoggyX - 1/6/2012, 3:55 PM
You'd have a point, if an Adam Sandler movie ever made even a quarter of that any of the Transformers movies made. I'm not saying they are masterpieces, but they are universally liked. They must be doing SOMETHING right... I mean, you just threw TF3 in the same lot as Green Lantern, come on!... lol
MarkCassidy
MarkCassidy - 1/6/2012, 4:00 PM
They are doing something right..they are appealing to action buffs who don't really mind a lousy story, acting, dialog etc as long as there is good action (which there was) aplenty AND the lowest common denominator movie goers who will literally watch anything as long as nobody speaks for too long between splosions. I'm not saying they are the only types who like it, I know a few people that (usually) have similar taste to myself that enjoyed em..but imo (with the exception of the first one which I thought was pretty good) those movies are awful. Green Lantern was better to me! Also, Sandler makes obscene money dude, OBSCENE
TheHitchhikingGhost
TheHitchhikingGhost - 1/6/2012, 4:02 PM
Adam Sandler movies are shit as is the first CLASH and this impending sequel. Same movie, different hairdo.
Sanderman
Sanderman - 1/6/2012, 4:03 PM
I have to agree with ror. TF3 was awful. If you go back and watch it just notice how thrown together it is and how the scenes don't really blend together well..plus awful ending for their so called trilogy
TheHitchhikingGhost
TheHitchhikingGhost - 1/6/2012, 4:08 PM
TF3 was pretty bad. An improvement on part deux but that's saying very little. Green Lantern left much to be desired, but I would watch that film again whereas I don't think I'll ever willingly see TF3 again.
NerdyGeek
NerdyGeek - 1/6/2012, 4:27 PM
@MoonDoggyX TF3?! One of the best films of 2011?!
headlopper
headlopper - 1/6/2012, 5:02 PM
This movie's on my to do list.
Destroyer14
Destroyer14 - 1/6/2012, 5:40 PM
Looking forward to this.
MoonDoggyX
MoonDoggyX - 1/6/2012, 5:56 PM
Ror, to be completely honest, you hit the nail othe head. I watched it purely for the action. Multiple times. But people aren't low brow for liking action. Just like drama and comedy, action is a legit part of cinema. Not all movies are meant to be the same. You can't knock transformers for nt Having good drama any more than you can knock Of Mice and Men for not having good action.
MisterNiceGuy
MisterNiceGuy - 1/6/2012, 6:47 PM
im pretty sure the problem with transformers is that it is called "transformers" but the movie is always about sam chasing some overrated looking chick that cant act for sheet
RyanLantern77
RyanLantern77 - 1/6/2012, 7:25 PM
One of the worst leading men out there today
MarkCassidy
MarkCassidy - 1/6/2012, 7:42 PM
Moondoggy, see I don't look at it that way at all. If Transformers was literally just giant robots kicking the crap out of each other for 2 hours then fine..I could enjoy that for what it is. But they ATTEMPT to add drama, comedy and relatable characters..they want us to give a damn and they fail miserably. No action movie is purely just action. Action is a story telling aid, not the other way around. And plenty of action orientated movies manage to balance everything out so that's no excuse anyway.
Ranger14
Ranger14 - 1/6/2012, 8:34 PM
The monsters is what drew me to watch the first one, even though I can't stand Worthington. I couldn't even make it through the whole film. Not going to fall for that one again.
Ceejay
Ceejay - 1/6/2012, 8:40 PM
The most boring actor to curse the silverscreen in years, Sam Worthington has an uncanny ability to put me to sleep with his inhuman lack of charisma. Never paying to see him in anything again unless the supporting cast is stellar!
Jolt17
Jolt17 - 1/6/2012, 9:27 PM
Eh, Transformers: Dark of the Moon (and the whole series) is a disgrace if you love the original material. Even if you don't, besides the action sequences (and the voice-acting...some of them), everything else of it is just wrong. If you list down the best CBMs of last year, well it still has a chance to be in the top 5 (out of 9 total), but movies overall? Come on.

Anyway, good to hear this. And the creatures look sick so far, I'd pay for them (especially if Kronos, Minotaur, etc., are in). I don't mind Worthington at all.
MoonDoggyX
MoonDoggyX - 1/6/2012, 10:27 PM
Ror, I'm not blind or in denial. All of the flaws you saw in the movies, I saw them too. They just didn't ruin the movie. Everyone has different tastes, so how can anyone say any movie is good or bad...? The preview. To me the is a promise of what to expect from a movie. If it promises something u like, the see the movie, if not, then don't. The transformers preview promised big action, hot chicks and special effects, it delivvered in those areas. Yes, the movie fell flat in other areas like story, plot and acting, but there wasn't anythin in the preview that made meexpect much in those areas. So, I got everything the promised in spades. Compared to the other cbm's this year, it wins in that aspect. According to the previews Thor and Cap were supposed to be big summer action filled blockbusters. Thore had only 1 big action scene in the whole movie and cap's action was "cookie cutter" at best. Disappointing on both accounts. XM:FC's preview promised a prequel to the previous. X-men movies, and we all know that it was far from that...
MoonDoggyX
MoonDoggyX - 1/6/2012, 10:47 PM
Sorry for the typos, its kinda hard postinf from my cell phone...

@jolt17- when was the last time you watched the transformers crtoon, buddy...?
Ranger14
Ranger14 - 1/6/2012, 11:32 PM
"No action movie is purely just action."

*cough* Expendables *cough*

:-P
devil
devil - 1/6/2012, 11:54 PM
i be watching this i be a good film
GUNSMITH
GUNSMITH - 1/7/2012, 3:23 AM
TRUTH BE TOLD THE GUY IS STRAIGHT UP AND DOESN'T BS AROUND...
GUNSMITH
GUNSMITH - 1/7/2012, 3:25 AM
YES...MUCH BETTER SAM...MUCH MUCH BETTER GOOOOOOOOOOD.....
Jolt17
Jolt17 - 1/7/2012, 6:05 AM
MoonDoggyX: Depending on which cartoon? Transformers: Prime was around two months ago, and randomly re-watched the G1 episodes around three weeks ago...why so?
MoonDoggyX
MoonDoggyX - 1/7/2012, 8:38 AM
Jolt71 - I love G1, but how can you say that Bay disgraced them? Its not like the cartoons were Lord of the Rings or something... lol

Ror - "Action is a story telling aid, not the other way around."
That's DEFINITELY not always the case. Have you ever seen a Western, Kung-Fu flick, pretty much most(not all) action flicks in the 70's 80's and 90's. Most notably Chuck Norris, Jackie Chan, Jet Li, JCVD, Steven Segal movies, etc...
NorrinRaddical
NorrinRaddical - 1/7/2012, 9:22 AM
Ror mate I agree with you verbatim on a few points throughout. i'm not expecting high art here, and in some cases, forced drama is almost like reverse pandering! with Titans, I am "taking my 10 year old self" to see them; the kid who checked out all the books on mythology (and religion) when he was young because they were the most imaginative violent insane fantasy worlds to me. the trailer does look awesome, better than the first, and i'm going in to appease the same pleasure centers of my brain that robot skirmishes and DC cosmic comic tales do. i'm not looking for Kubrick every time i go to the cinema
Jolt17
Jolt17 - 1/7/2012, 9:52 AM
MoonDoggyX: Um...where to start. Monster Soundwave, Einstein 'Wheeljack', and from that; messing up the names (Que/Wheeljack, Dino/Mirage, still unclear even until now), Shockwave that talks LESS than Laserbeak, and a lot more I can't remember (including those that are present in the first and second movie). Even Optimus (who mostly was handled right, though), was made into a savage robot in order to fulfill Bay's action needs, destroying a lot of important aspects of the character. :)

And I understand this is an alternative version, another interpretation of the Transformers universe; but it is a big-screen adaptation in the very first place, and thus rather than presenting its own version of universe, I think it'd be more important to present the same characters we love only in a different medium. Doesn't mean that I won't accept any change, but all those changes Bay presented in his movies (especially the last two) were just too far away.
MoonDoggyX
MoonDoggyX - 1/7/2012, 10:13 AM
Jolt17 - Those are actually very good points. Especially the last 2. Soundwave was fracked up, and Prime was a little too savage at times. Most notably at the very end of RotF. Prime says to the Fallen "Give me your face!" right before he melts his face off... Even I said "WTF" at that point. At the same time, some of it was a much needed departure from the animated series. They are fighting a war, Optimus Prime is the Autobot's best warrior. It would have been WAY too silly for battles to play out without any casualties, or for Prime to take a major part in the battle without killing Decepticons. That's one of the things that bay did that i really agree with. Keep most of the decepticons random and nameless. Prime killing a bunch of robots with personalities(people) would have made him TOO brutal and made the movies harder to watch for smaller children.
Jolt17
Jolt17 - 1/7/2012, 8:17 PM
MoonDoggyX: Indeed, my friend, indeed. I get the point on killing nameless Decepticons people can hardly care, but there are some things that can be changed, e.g. him sparing Megatron in the last movie, to show his nobility and tolerance even toward his arch-nemesis...that's Optimus Prime.
NotThatGuy
NotThatGuy - 1/8/2012, 5:30 AM
Shame the CG creatures look like real shit.
MoonDoggyX
MoonDoggyX - 1/8/2012, 8:46 AM
Jolt17- absolutely! Especially after megatron saved his life. DotM was definitely not nearly as good as the first movie, but it was atill pretty entertaining at times. I still have to stand by my top 5 of the year, we'll at least through the summer, though. It just wasn't that great of a year for movies to me. Especially for cbms. Thor was flat, xm:fc was a continuity mess(though I have to admit that I liked it more when I saw it again on blu-ray), green lantern was, well, green lantern and cap was cookie cutter.

1: Harry Potter
2: planet of the apes rises(lol)
3: battle los angeles
4: super 8
5: dotm
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