Clash of the Titans is a film from my youth. It should be the odds-on-favorite to win my heart in the upcoming battle of Sword & Sandal epics this year. But Clash of the Titans was always a bit cartoony and Percy Jackson is looking to be remarkably mature for a kid’s film. This article talks about the match-up between the two movies and it has me squirming with anticipation.

Plus, okay, come on. Not only Kevin McKidd but Pierce Brosnan have signed up to be gods in this film. That kinda seals the deal for me.

See? I’m not the only one to have envisioned Medusa as a seductress. It looks like Uma Thurmond got the role of the Gorgon in the new Percy Jackson movie. My favorite quote of the article was this one:

How alluring is Uma Thurman? “She’s someone who’s so sensual and seductive,” filmmaker Chris Columbus says, “that you’ll look into her eyes and forget that she has 75 snakes on her head.”

If the gorgon on my cover for MIDNIGHT MEDUSA can look like a freckled Irishwoman, then why can’t Medusa be all Nordic blond like Uma?

Oh swoon! You know that HBO’s Rome was my very favorite series evah! And I never doubted for a minute that a guy like Kevin McKidd was a minor sex god of some sort, but as it turns out, he’s switching from the Latin team to the Hellenes.

He’s signed on to play Poseidon in the forthcoming Percy Jackson and the Olympians movie, and this gives me even bigger incentive to be excited about this movie. It’s a kid’s film, but I assure you, some part of me will only be going to see Kevin McKidd’s big shiny trident…