[Movie News] ‘Hercules’ Live-Action Remake in the Works With Russo Brothers Producing
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This is very very big news.
The original 1997 Hercules is in my top five favorite Disney movies. In no particular order, the list is Hercules, Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast, Lion King, and The Little Mermaid. (List your top five in the comments).
A few things will separate this live-action remake from Disney’s most recent remakes like The Lion King, Jungle Book, and Lady and the Tramp.
The first thing is that this movie stars people and not animals so some of the critiques that befell The Lion King (2019) of it’s hard to see these close to life-like CGI animals showing emotion, shouldn’t be an issue here.
The second thing is Hercules originally came out in 1997 and aside from Mulan that came out in 1998 it looks like Disney is really coming to the end of their ’90s animated classic movie catalog.
Lastly, the thing that may make or break this movie’s success won’t be the casting of the primary characters. It will be the casting of the Greek muses.
Disney you have to come correct here. You cannot mess this up. We’re all counting on you.
Disney is in early development of a live-action remake of its 1997 animated movie “Hercules,” with “Avengers” filmmakers Joe and Anthony Russo producing through their AGBO production company.
Disney has hired action specialist Dave Callaham to write the “Hercules” script. Callaham teamed with Sylvester Stallone for the original screenplay for “The Expendables,” creating his character for the franchise. He has credits on “Godzilla” and “Zombieland: Double Tap,” as well as the upcoming “Wonder Woman 1984” and Disney-Marvel’s “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.”
The 1997 movie was a musical-fantasy retelling of the Hercules legend directed by Ron Clements and John Musker. Hercules was voiced by Tate Donovan, snatched as a baby by Hades and forced to live among mortals as a half-man, half-god. Hercules needed to perform a rite of passage on Earth to prove himself worthy of living with the gods on Mount Olympus, so with the help of his satyr mentor, voiced by Danny DeVito, he learns how to use his strength to defeat a series of evil creatures.
Source: Variety
