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Harryhausen Foundation collaborating on Force of the Trojans with Morningside Productions.

Interesting:

The foundation established by legendary special effects visionary Ray Harryhausen is pleased to announce a joint effort with Morningside Productions, the company of late film producer Charles Schneer. Discovery of new materials in the vast archives of the Ray and Diana Harryhausen Foundation will be the basis of a spectacularly new and original theatrical motion picture in the style of such Harryhausen/Schneer classics such as Clash of the Titans, the duo’s most significant box office collaboration from 1981.

This project, tentatively entitled Force of the Trojans,is based on a screenplay by Beverley Cross, and original production art and sculptures conceived by Ray Harryhausen that are on par with some of his most iconic screen creatures.

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RIP, Ray Harryhausen.

Dammit, dammit, dammit, dammit, dammit, DAMN IT!

Ray Harryhausen, a master of stop-motion animation and a true movie great, has died. He was 92.

Born in Los Angeles in June 1920, Harryhausen’s enthusiasm for the burgeoning form of animation was sparked by a viewing of Willis O’Brien’s King Kong as a wide-eyed 13 year-old. Two years later and he could be found crafting his own homemade animations, prototypes of the models he would quickly come to perfect in Mighty Joe Young (1949), It Came From Beneath The Sea (1955), 20 Million Miles To Earth (1957) and The Valley Of Gwangi (1969).

Three Sinbad movies delivered classic monsters like the Cyclops and Homonicus, Jason And The Argonauts (1963) brought skeletons and Talos to the screen, while Clash Of The Titans (1981) delivered Medusa and unleashed a Kraken. All memorable; all maintained for posterity by the Ray & Diana Harryhausen Foundation.

I know, I know: you can hardly claim that he had a bad life, or anything but a full one.  But I was half-hoping that Ray was just going to… keep going until we could get the clone memory transfer thing going, or something.  I don’t think that was unreasonable of me.  I mean: how many times do you hear of a 92 year old dying?

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I’ve heard this about Clash of the Titans.

Well, not this, specifically:

Scott and Dan from the “Geek in the City” podcast were sitting next to me [‘me’ being Bobby ‘Fatboy’ Roberts – ed.]  at the screening of Clash of the Titans I caught conducting a brilliant experiment. Scott watched the film normally with the rest of us, while Dan drowned out the soundtrack using an iPod loaded with his favorite metal play-list. Scott saw what the rest of us did: a passionless, pointless exercise in lazy, spoon fed bullshit. However, according to Dan, if you arm yourself with headphones and enough Iron Maiden to make your ears want to fight each other, you get the most epic metal video ever put on film.

…but stuff like it.  Which is annoying.  I didn’t expect anything but crap; but I thought that it’d be reasonable to expect entertainingly stupid crap.  I mean, look at this:

Did they think that we would have been disappointed if it was as goofy as the original? We wanted goofy. Ray Harryhausen’s still alive, you know. Hell, Harryhausen’s still working. And he’s 90.

Moe Lane

PS: That Harryhausen flick? VIKINGS ON EAGLES THAT FIGHT NAZIS.