“Hercules is going to be a little more experimental in tone and execution”revealed Joe Russo in an interview with the specialized medium Variety. According to the director, together with his brother have “a point of view on how to stretch the limits of an intellectual property and push it into the future, instead of just keeping it.
Like the original animated film, this reinterpretation will be a musical, but with a change in approach of this feature. “Audiences today are trained by TikTok. So we wonder what your expectation is of how a musical looks and feels. That can be a lot of fun and help us push the boundaries of how to perform a modern musical,” directors revealed.
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Ritchie is working on the film’s script with David Callaham., who wrote Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings for Marvel. About him, the Russos said that he is the “perfect” director because he always wants to experiment.
It is curious to note that the original Hercules moviedirected by John Musker and Ron Clementes, already reimagined the myth of the Greek demigod as the story of a rising celebrity. It’s one of the most remembered musicals of the second golden age of Disney animation.
Joe and Anthony Russo directed Avengers: Infinity War and Endgame for Marvel, as well as two Captain America movies. In the same interview they stated that they don’t expect to return to Marvel “until the end of the decade at least”.
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