Hamlin took the part - but as production wore on, the script was toned down considerably from the one he signed on to. I want to do something that’s relevant and cutting edge.” “Because at that time the idea of a gay world was still not accepted.” The actor read the script and thought, “This is exactly the kind of movie I’m looking for. “Everyone in town had turned the movie down,” says Hamlin. The film shot in 1978 but was released in 1981 - as it took Ray Harryhausen three years to complete the painstaking stop-motion effects.įor his follow-up, Hamlin was brought in by director Arthur Hiller ( Love Story) to read for 20th Century Fox’s Making Love, which was to be a groundbreaking film about a same-sex affair, the first of its kind for a major studio. Instead, he made the schlocky Greek-myth epic Clash of the Titans, a part he took because it would allow him to work alongside his acting hero, Sir Laurence Olivier, who played Zeus to Hamlin’s Perseus. Dustin Lance Black on the Education and Entertainment in 'Under the Banner of Heaven'
