Well it looks like Robert Rodriguez is definitely not directing a Clash of the Titans remake after all — instead that honour will go to Stephen Norrington, the special effects wizard who previously helmed Blade and the god awful League of Extraordinary Gentlemen feature film. Hey, I like Blade just as much as the next guy, but you can’t help being a little nervous when a director is coming off a train wreck like LXG.

The original Clash of the Titans was made in 1981 and has the distinction of being the last film to ever feature Ray Harryhausen stop motion creatures. Alas, as the saying goes: out with the old, in with the new. This update of Clash of the Titans will most definitely be chock full of CG, and as cool as it may be to see photorealistic digital approximations of these mythological monsters, you can’t help but mourn the fact that stop motion animation is all but dead.

The remake heads into production next year, based on a script that was originally penned by Travis Beacham and then rewritten by Lawrence Kasdan (The Empire Strikes Back, Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Bodyguard, Dreamcatcher). If it is successful, I’m willing to bet that the rumoured big screen adaptation of the video game God of War won’t be far behind!