"Kon-Tiki" actor Tobias Santelmann has been cast as the villain in Brett Ratner's action thriller "Hercules" at MGM and Paramount.
Dwayne Johnson stars as the classic Greek hero which takes a more grounded approach to the story, removing the supernatural aspects.
In this version, Hercules is a feared mortal who leads a team of mercenaries on a job where all is ominously not what it appears.
Santelmann will play Rhesus, a golden-locked barbarian and revolutionary. He joins a cast that also includes Ian McShane, Joseph Fiennes, John Hurt and Rebecca Ferguson.
Beau Flynn, Barry Levine and Ratner are producing with filming currently underway in Budapest.
Source: THR...
Dwayne Johnson stars as the classic Greek hero which takes a more grounded approach to the story, removing the supernatural aspects.
In this version, Hercules is a feared mortal who leads a team of mercenaries on a job where all is ominously not what it appears.
Santelmann will play Rhesus, a golden-locked barbarian and revolutionary. He joins a cast that also includes Ian McShane, Joseph Fiennes, John Hurt and Rebecca Ferguson.
Beau Flynn, Barry Levine and Ratner are producing with filming currently underway in Budapest.
Source: THR...
- 6/21/2013
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Exclusive: Rufus Sewell is set to star as Autolycus alongside Dwayne Johnson in Hercules for MGM. Ryan Condal has written the film and Evan Spiliotopoulos rewrite it and Brett Ratner is directing. Ratner will produce with Barry Levine and Beau Flynn. After renouncing his mythological origins, Hercules lives in exile and fights as a mercenary for hire alongside his loyal but weary comrades. Hercules and his crew will face their most challenging labor yet when one battle forces the man behind the myth to question everything he once believed, and reconsider the truth behind his own legend. The pic has been set to open July 25, 2014. Sewell is currently starring in the play Old Times at the Harold Pinter Theater in London. He is repped by Wme, Parseghian Planco and Julian Belfrage & Associates.
- 3/20/2013
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline
Paramount Pictures, a division of Viacom, Inc., and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios announced today that they will co-produce the upcoming film Hercules, starring Dwayne Johnson and directed by Brett Ratner. The film is set to begin production in early 2013.
Based on Radical Studio.s graphic novel .Hercules: The Thracian Wars,. the ensemble-action film is a revisionist take on the classic myth set in a grounded world where the supernatural does not exist.
The screenplay was adapted by Ryan Condal, with revisions by Evan Spiliotopoulos. Producers are Beau Flynn, Barry Levine and Brett Ratner; executive producers are Peter Berg, Sarah Aubrey and Jesse Berger.
Johnson, who earlier this year starred in the box-office hit Journey 2: The Mysterious Island, will next be seen in the highly anticipated sequel G.I. Joe: Retaliation, from Paramount Pictures, MGM and Skydance Productions, in association with Hasbro, directed by John M. Chu and written by Rhett Reese & Paul Wernick,...
Based on Radical Studio.s graphic novel .Hercules: The Thracian Wars,. the ensemble-action film is a revisionist take on the classic myth set in a grounded world where the supernatural does not exist.
The screenplay was adapted by Ryan Condal, with revisions by Evan Spiliotopoulos. Producers are Beau Flynn, Barry Levine and Brett Ratner; executive producers are Peter Berg, Sarah Aubrey and Jesse Berger.
Johnson, who earlier this year starred in the box-office hit Journey 2: The Mysterious Island, will next be seen in the highly anticipated sequel G.I. Joe: Retaliation, from Paramount Pictures, MGM and Skydance Productions, in association with Hasbro, directed by John M. Chu and written by Rhett Reese & Paul Wernick,...
- 11/7/2012
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
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