DWAYNE JOHNSON'S GRANDMA MIGHT CLAP AND EXCLAIM, "HERCULES! HERCULES! HERCULES!"
The world may never actually get to see Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson star in the long-planned Kamehameha historical biopic that was much talked about in the early 2000s. Instead, Johnson is now in talks with MGM to star in Hercules, to be directed by Brett Ratner (Tower Heist, X-Men: The Last Stand and all three Rush Hour movies). Rather than being directly based upon the original Greek myths about the demi god Hercules, this Hercules movie will be based upon two comic book series published by Radical Publishing: Hercules: The Thracian Wars and Hercules: The Knives of Kush. As detailed on their Wikipedia page, Radical's strategy as a company "in the comic book business is to create properties that are pre-packaged for adaptation to film and other media." The Hercules script was adapted from those comic books (and the related materials created by Radical to help sell the property) by Ryan Condal, who also cowrote the currently shelved Warner Bros adaptation of John Milton's Paradise Lost.
The world may never actually get to see Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson star in the long-planned Kamehameha historical biopic that was much talked about in the early 2000s. Instead, Johnson is now in talks with MGM to star in Hercules, to be directed by Brett Ratner (Tower Heist, X-Men: The Last Stand and all three Rush Hour movies). Rather than being directly based upon the original Greek myths about the demi god Hercules, this Hercules movie will be based upon two comic book series published by Radical Publishing: Hercules: The Thracian Wars and Hercules: The Knives of Kush. As detailed on their Wikipedia page, Radical's strategy as a company "in the comic book business is to create properties that are pre-packaged for adaptation to film and other media." The Hercules script was adapted from those comic books (and the related materials created by Radical to help sell the property) by Ryan Condal, who also cowrote the currently shelved Warner Bros adaptation of John Milton's Paradise Lost.
