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5. The Argonauts

For a while there, it looked like we were going to have to get upset at another disrespectful remake of a Ray Harryhausen classic because Fox set Zak Penn (Ready Player One) away on writing a remake with a "cool" simplified title. Quite how they would ever have captured the stop motion magic of the skeleton attack remains to be seen, but we can at least be thankful nobody got a chance to try and besmirch the legacy.

That news came as far back as 2008 and there has actually been another Argonauts remake talked about far more recently (as Paramount were linked with a project in 2015), but this one was still counted as one of Fox's projects by the list of in-development titles, so it's an interesting one to consider.

Would there have been more of an appetite for Greek mythology-inspired films after the comparative failures of the Titans movies and Percy Jackson? Who knows but there was certainly potential.