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Live-Action Hercules Film To Be Produced By The Russo Brothers

THR is reporting Joe and Anthony Russo are producing, but not directing, the remake via their AGBO banner. Disney is going to zero to hero once more, putting into development a live-action remake of its 1997 animated movie Hercules . The studio has hired Dave Callaham, the action scribe who launched The Expendables franchise and wrote Marvel’s upcoming Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings , to pen the script. Joe and Anthony Russo, the filmmakers behind the Avengers: Endgame and Infinity War, are set to produce via their AGBO banner. The 1997 pic was a musical fantasy retelling of the Greek legend that featured plenty of the trademark comedic banter of that era’s Disney animated titles. Tate Donovan voiced the demigod looking to reclaim his heroic stature, while James Woods played Hades, the god plotting to overthrow Olympus. The animated film, which underwent considerable retooling over its many years in development, had 18 credited writers who worked on the stor