Right: Director Guy Ritchie
Guy Ritchie, the director of Disney's 'Aladdin,' will be directing the upcoming live-action remake of the 1997 classic 'Hercules'.
The project is being produced by 'Avengers: Endgame' directors Joe and Anthony Russo's AGBO, who have enlisted action specialist Dave Callaham to write the first script. AGBO has begun to hire additional writers.
The most recent project Ritchie worked on with Jake Gyllenhaal was an untitled action thriller. He wrote, directed, and executive produced 'Operation Fortune: Ruse de guerre,' which was scheduled to be released in the first few months of 2022 but has since been pushed back without an official release date.
CAA negotiated the arrangement and Ritchie left the firm for WME last month. Matt Saver was his lawyer.
Ron Clements and John Musker directed the original animated 'Hercules, which was a musical version of the Hercules legend with music by Alan Menken. Tate Donovan portrayed 'Hercules', with Susan Egan portraying his love interest Megara and James Woods as Hades, who abducts the demigod Hercules as an infant and compels him to live among mortals.
'Hercules' is helped by the satyr Philoctetes (Danny DeVito), who instructs him how to prove himself worthy of dwelling among the gods on Mount Olympus by using his superhuman strength..
Disney's original 'Hercules' film cost USD85 million to produce and grossed USD252 million worldwide. According to Variety, it follows in the footsteps of Disney predecessors such as 1991's 'Beauty and the Beast,' 1992's 'Aladdin,' and 1994's 'The Lion King,' all of which were turned into profitable live-action films.
The Russo Brothers are presently preparing for the July premiere of 'The Gray Man,' a $200 million action thriller that will be Netflix's most expensive movie to date. They've directed a number of Marvel films, including 'Avengers: Endgame, which broke box office records by grossing USD2.79 billion globally.
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