Mads Mikkelsen and Alexa Davalos hear the Clash of The Titans

I posted the news about Gemma Arteton joining the cast a few days ago but now some more casting news has surfaced.

Mads Mikkelsen, Gemma Arterton and Alexa Davalos are boarding "Clash of the Titans," the Greek-god epic being directed by Louis Leterrier.

Sam Worthington is toplining as Perseus, who is put on a quest to save a princess and defeat Hades, the god of hell. Matt Manfredi and Phil Hay wrote the script.

Mikkelsen is playing Draco, a skilled fighter and leader of the Praetorian Guard that accompanies Perseus.

Davalos is Andromeda, the captured princess, and Arterton is Io, who is instrumental in bringing the winged horse Pegasus to Perseus.

Legendary is co-producing and co-financing the pic, which is set to begin lensing in the U.K. at the end of April. Thunder Road's Basil Iwanyk is producing with Kevin de la Noy. Jon Jashni and Thomas Tull are executive producing.

Lynn Harris and Matt Milam are overseeing for Warners.

Mikkelsen, one of Denmark's most recognizable faces, is best known to American audiences for his role of the villain in "Casino Royale." Repped by UTA and Danish agent Ulrich Moller-Jorgensen, the actor stars in Eurowide Film's "Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky."

Arterton, who appeared in the James Bond film "Quantum of Solace," next appears in Richard Curtis' "The Boat That Rocked" and opposite Jake Gyllenhaal in Disney's "Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time." She is repped by UK's Independent Talent Group.

ICM-repped Davalos was most recently seen in "Defiance." Other credits include "The Mist," "Feast of Love" and "The Chronicles of Riddick."

Source: THR

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The Chronicles of Riddick will be down and dirty.

IESB has heard that the new Riddick film will be more down and dirty with less "fantasy epic stuff" to deal with. A bounty hunter/space pirate type of story line is expected.

The film will have a capped budget of around $35 million.

Expect an official announcement about the new film after FAST & FURIOUS opens big on April 3.

Not sure how they will tie it into the end of The Chronicles of Riddick where he is sat as the ruler of the Necrowotsits.

I do like the fact they will be taking the character back to basics.

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Riddick is going Rambo on us

Vin Diesel recently mentioned that we would be seeing a new Chronicles of Riddick film. Now he has told Sci-Fi a little about the plot for the new film:

"We're going to find Riddick alone for the first part of the movie, barely alive, surrounded by carnivorous monsters who are trying to eat him, so you'll see a futuristic Rambo-esque Riddick trying to survive."

That sounds pretty good and more like the Riddick we saw in Pitch Black as opposed to the first Chronicles of Riddick film (although Pitch Black could be the first Chronicle, so that makes this new one the third...I'm confused). Not sure how it will tie in with the ending of the second Riddick film.

Does that plot make you excited about the new Riddick film?

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Vin Diesel says The Chronicles of Riddick will return

Ah Riddick. Great character and Pitch Black is probably Vin Diesel's finest bit of screen time. Then they made The Chronicles of Riddick. At the time it was touted to be akin to The Lord of The Rings with Pitch Black being their Hobbit. Chronicles wasn't any such thing. A flawed epic which had some great bits along with some naff bits. Personally I really enjoyed it, especially the directors cut, but it did take itself so seriously and robbed Riddick's character of much of his coolness. It only made $58 Million at the box office so it looked as if we would never see Riddick on the big screen again.

Then along game the video game Escape from Butcher Bay. A great FPS for the X-Box that breathed new life into the franchise. This game has been revamped for the X-Box 360 and is due out soon under the name The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena.

That's not all. Last August Vin Diesel said that there would be two more Riddick films. Now, in an interview about the Dark Athena game with GameSpot, Diesel has said a bit more about the new film.

"It is underway and I almost think it's a coincidence that we haven't heard anything, that there hasn't been a lot of public stuff on the Riddick movie"

He goes on to confirm that David Twohy is finishing up the script and once it's ready, they'll take the next steps.

Are you excited for a new Chronicles of Riddick film? What did you think of the previous films and what would you like to see in the new one? Should it carry on from the first Chronicles or tell a totally new story?

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Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena

Vin Diesel has done some truly dreadful things. I'm not talking about killing puppies, or stabbing old people in the eye with a zimmer frame. No, I'm talking much, much worse - he's made some very naff films. The Pacifier, Babylon A.D., xXx, and the Fast and the Furious.

However, he has done some good stuff. Namely the character of Riddick in Pitch Black which is a blinder of a movie. Riddick is a very cool anti-hero (I even have a soft spot for The Chronicles of Riddick film - just always felt they had so much to tell that it all got splodged into one big glorious sci-fi mess) and he appears again in the new Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena video game. The trailer is below and it looks amazing. Think I will be picking this up when it comes out. What about you?

Interestingly it looks as if good old Vin may be doing something else good, namely lend his voice to the CGI feature length version of Rockfish. It is written and directed by Tim Miller of Blur Studios and is due out in 2010. Spooky as Neal Asher mentioned the short film of Rockfish in the interview I did with him this week. You can see the short there.

Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena, players will not only be challenged to survive Butcher Bay, but will also engage in a new single-player experience and, for the first time in the Riddick universe, take action in intense multi-player combat. The game introduces the ominous Merc-ship Dark Athena, which sits silent like a marauding spider, awaiting helpless prey in the dark reaches of the galaxy. Players must face a large, bloodthirsty operation led by the dreaded Captain Revas and her slaves-turned-controllable combat drones, storm though death-defying events and fight fierce enemies in a battle of malice and gore.

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