Thursday, April 28, 2011 at 2:59PM Brett Ratner to Direct 'Hercules: The Thracian Wars'?
It's good thing HBO has given me eight seasons of Entourage to watch, otherwise without Johnny Drama's acting woes, I probably wouldn't even know who Brett Ratner is. With that knowledge, I learned he is the director who helped butcher the X-Men franchise, post-Bryan Singer being behind the camera for X-Men: The Last Stand.
That being said, Vulture reports today that Ratner has started negotiations to direct Hercules: The Thracian Wars for MGM and Spyglass Entertainment.
Hercules was originally set up at Universal with Pete Berg attached to direct. Last summer, Ratner was reportedly in talks with producer Avi Lerner to direct another Hercules project, which fell through. Ryan Condral wrote the script for Hercules: The Thracian Wars, which comes from a series of comic books created by Steve Moore of Radical Publishing.
Here's a brief synopsis from those comics.
"Fourteen hundred years ago, a tormented soul walked the Earth that was neither man nor god. Hercules was the powerful son of the god king Zeus, for this received nothing but suffering his entire life. After twelve arduous labors and the loss of his family, this dark, world-weary soul turned his back on the gods finding his only solace in bloody battle. Over the years he warmed to the company of similar souls, their only bond being their love of fighting and presence of death. These men and women never question where they go to fight or why or whom, just how much they will be paid. Now the King of Thrace has hired these mercenaries to train his men to become the greatest army of all time. It is time for this bunch of lost souls to finally have their eyes opened to how far they have fallen when they must train an army to become as ruthless and blood thirsty as their reputation has become."
Damn that sounds intense! Too bad Zack Snyder isn't helming this one.
No production schedule was given for Hercules: The Thracian Wars, but we'll keep you up to date.
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