Peter Berg Takes on Hercules!

[Hunter Rider]

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=47096

Source: Variety
July 22, 2008


Hancock director Peter Berg is spearheading a fresh take on Hercules for Universal, reports Variety.

Berg will produce and will develop to direct Hercules: The Thracian Wars, a co-production of Spyglass Entertainment, Berg's Film 44 and Radical Pictures. Spyglass and Universal will co-finance the film.

Ryan Condal will write the script, based on a five-issue comicbook series by Steve Moore that debuted in May through Radical Publishing.

Spyglass' Jonathan Glickman, Roger Birnbaum and Gary Barber will produce with Berg and his Film 44 partner Sarah Aubrey, with Barry Levine producing for Radical. Jesse Berger will executive produce.

"What resonated for them was that this was character driven, about a character who's more man than god, with conflicts and redemption," Levine said.

 

[Gotham]

Hercules? I can't even imagine how amazing this would look with CGI.

Peter Berg is one of my favorite directors working today, so I can't wait to hear more.

 

[Apollo]

i've only seen two of berg's films....Hancock and The Rundown....both were meh...Though i think i enjoyed The rundown more, haha..

 

[xwolverine2]

i always prefered Xena lol

 

[Raiden]

Never familiar with the comic book series that inspired this movie, but I hope they will have some classic Hercules stories in it.

 

[Lord Blackbolt]

I'd rather a movie based on Marvel's Hercules

 

[ord0g]

I want Kevin Sorbo back as Hercules

 

[GreenKToo]

Never familiar with the comic book series that inspired this movie, but I hope they will have some classic Hercules stories in it.

http://comicbookresources.com/?page=preview&id=590&disp=table

 

[RonStoppablefan]

Oh no's, is this the guy who created Hancock? Hercules is screwed, big time.

 

[Cinemaman]

^^^

Indeed

 

[Dark Victory]

Berg is decent. He made The Rundown and The Kingdom which are pretty good but then again he did make Hancock...

 

[Raiden]

http://comicbookresources.com/?page=preview&id=590&disp=table

Thanks for the link. It appears that the comic is bloody and fun to read, and Hercules seems alot more like a general or leader than a strongman who just destroys things. If Berg can make the movie like the comics that inspired it, it just might be good.