Chris Columbus is directing a film adaptation of Rick Riordan’s first Percy Jackson & the Olympians novel, The Lightning Thief, a 21st-century take on Greek mythology. But Columbus said that he isn’t worried that Warner Brothers is making its own Greek-inspired movie, a remake of Clash of the Titans.

“No, because we’re first,” Columbus said in an exclusive interview Saturday in Santa Monica, Calif., where he was promoting I Love You, Beth Cooper.

Titans, starring Sam Worthington, hits theaters in March of 2010, but 20th Century Fox locked in a February 2010 release date for Columbus’ film. Was it a calculated decision? “Oh, yeah,” Columbus said.

In Columbus’ movie, Percy Jackson (Logan Lerman) is a boarding school kid sent to Camp Half-Blood, a summer camp for demigods. From there he has adventures with gods and creatures of Greek myth in the present day. This is not a spoof, mind you: Columbus takes his gods very seriously.

“Percy Jackson’s a very serious movie,” Columbus said. “It’s comedic, but it’s only comedic in a way that an Indiana Jones movie can be comedic. So I think in terms of comparing it to something like Clash of the Titans, it is more of an Indiana Jones-meets-Greek-mythology [movie], as opposed to a pure period-piece Greek myth, Clash of the Titans.”

Columbus has taken some liberties with the source material: Maybe not every sequence from the book is in the movie, but maybe he came up with some better ideas. “Just some of the creatures have been changed,” Columbus said. “We have sort of a breathtaking hydra sequence that replaces a sequence that used to take place at the Seattle Arch. Our version of Hades is a little different. There are other changes here and there. Camp Half-Blood is a lot more dangerous, a lot more serious than it was in the book.”

Columbus has also cast Uma Thurman as Medusa. On the set, Thurman wore a blue skullcap painted with dots for computer-graphics artists to add her hair of snakes in post-production. Otherwise, this Medusa is as hot as Uma Thurman.

“Well, Medusa has to be extremely seductive so she can get people to open their eyes and look into her eyes,” Columbus said. “So she is a combination of one of the most frightening creatures I’ve ever seen on screen yet with a very seductive voice.”

Fox plans to release Percy Jackson & The Olympians in theaters on Feb. 12, 2010.

Source: Sci Fi Wire

According to ioncinema, Uma will be replacing Maria Bello in Harold Becker’s film Vengeance: A Love Story which was a novel written by author Joyce Carol Oates. She will be starring with fellow Pulp Fiction star Samuel L. Jackson. The website states that production starts next month in Michigan. If you do not want to know what happens in the movie/book, please do not read the summary below:

In Vengeance: A Love Story, which unfortunately no longer goes by the thought provoking Joyce Carol Oates novella’s title Rape: A Love Story, we are witness to an act of unbelievable brutality that twists the lives of three generations of women and sets a man of the law on his own course of justice. On the Fourth of July, Niagara Falls Police Officer John Dromoor (Jackson) is flagged down by 12-year-old Bethie Maguire (Abigail Breslin). Her mother, Teena Maguire (Thurman), has been brutally raped and left for dead. Moving at a relentless, compelling pace, the story of Teena and Bethie unfolds in this powerful and thrilling drama.

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Source: Ioncinema

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