Ralph Fiennes, Liam Neeson, Bill Nighy, Rosamund Pike, et al. Set for Clash of the Titans Sequel

Stage veterans Bill Nighy and Rosamund Pike have been cast in the forthcoming sequel to Clash of the Titans, according to a report in Variety. Jonathan Liebesman will direct the movie, which has a script by David Leslie Johnsen and Steven Knight.

In the film centering on the Greek gods, Pike will play Queen Andromeda, replacing Alexa Davalos, who played the character in the most recent version of Clash and Nighy will play Hephaestus. The cast also features Sam Worthington as Perseus, Ralph Fiennes as Hades, Liam Neeson as Zeus, and Toby Kebbell as Argenor, a demi-god who is son of Poseidon.

Nighy starred on Broadway in The Vertical Hour, and among his U.K. credits are The Immortal, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, A Map of the World, Skylight and Blue/Orange. On screen he has been seen in Notes on a Scandal, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Ghost, The Constant Gardner, and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1.

Pike’s West End credits include Hitchcock Blonde, Summer and Smoke, Gaslight, and Madame de Sade. Her screen credits include Pride and Prejudice, Die Another Day, The Libertine, Fracture, and An Education.