Clash of the Titans Writers Get A Chance To Speak
Find out what they had to say about 3D, The Kraken and more...
MTV News recently sat down with "Clash" screenwriters Phil Hay and Matt Manfredi and got their takes on the upcoming film. The use of 3D is becoming rampant in Hollywood and "Clash" came under a little fire for going back and forth whether to use the technology or not and doing a 3D conversion after the fact.
Manfredi: "I think it's a really fun idea. It fits the tone of the movie we're trying to make. It is supposed to be a spectacle. I also feel really confident about all the discussions leading up to it. The studio and Louis and the producers were very adamant that they weren't going to do it unless they felt very confident that they could pull it off and it was going to look special and add something."
Hay: "It makes it more immersive. With "Avatar," the 3-D is less about things popping out at you and more about composition and pulling you into the world. And I think Louis' style lends itself naturally to that as well. He shoots with a lot of depth — important foregrounds and important backgrounds. I'm excited to see it in this form."
MTV News also asked where the balance was between script writing and large CGI monsters such as the Kraken
Hay: "The Kraken was just great to work with. A very giving actor. Delivers his lines with precision and class! No, it terms of what the fight scenes were going to be, how the monsters were going to look, the choreography of it — all that we worked closely with Louis on, getting inside his head and pulling out his very specific vision. Also our job as writers was to create a set of characters that you care about when they're going up against these monsters. The big set pieces are always about what the characters are going through in them, as opposed to it just being about action. The action becomes meaningful when you care about the people going through it."
With any blockbuster movie, the word trilogy is usually right around the corner. Director Louis Leterrier has alluded to using other Greek heroes such as Icarus in further adventures.
Manfredi: "During pre-production and production, we're throwing ideas at each other. We would all be incredible thrilled if people like the first one enough to warrant a second one. We have a lot of ideas — and Louis kind of has a master plan — about what you could do."
Hay: "There are so many small stories to mine that don't make movies on their own but you can weave them together and create a comprehensive world. We all hope we get to do it. It would be thrilling."
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