Guy Ritchie and Disney team up once again for a live action version of “Hercules”

Guy Ritchie and Disney team up once again for a live action version of “Hercules”

Ritchie had already had a good time in his experience with Disney, when “Aladdin”starring Mena Massoud Y Will Smithwas the first film in the Englishman’s career to break his billion-dollar grossing record.

So far, it has emerged that the film is already in the pre-production stage, and that although it is looking for screenwriters, it already has a first draft made by the American Dave Callahamwhich comes from writing other Hollywood blockbusters like “godzilla” (2014), “Wonder Woman 1984” (2020), “Mortal Kombat” (2021) and “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” (2021).

For its part, Guy Ritchie will undertake the project shortly after the shooting of his next film, an action thriller tentatively titled as “The Interpreter” which has as its protagonist Jake Gyllenhaal and a cast made up of Alexander Ludwig (“Vikings”), Anthony Starr (“The Boys”), Dar Salim (“Borgen”) and Emily Beecham (“cruella”).

In addition, the English will premiere on July 28 “Agent Fortune: The Great Hoax”an action-espionage comedy performed by Jason Statham, Hugh Grant and Josh Hartnettthe more.

Directed by Ron Clements Y John Muskerthe original and animated version of “Hercules” became upon its release the 35th canon film of Disney and in the eighth made during its “Renaissance”, when the company returned to the production of popular stories adapted in the form of musicals, something it had already bet on between the 30s and 60s.

with the voices of Tate Donovan, Danny DeVito, James Woods and Susan Eganthe narrative loosely brought to the screen the legend of the title character, son of the Greek gods Zeus and Hera, who is stripped of his immortality as a baby and must become a true hero to regain it.

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