Disney has announced that Guy Ritchie, who directed the 2019 live-action Aladdin starring Will Smith that made over $1 billion at the box office, is now set to direct another Disney live-action film. He will direct the live-action version of Disney’s classic animated film Hercules.
ABGO, the production company led by Avengers directors Joe and Anthony Russo, is producing the film. Deadline reports that Dave Callaham (Wonder Woman: 1984, Shang-Chi) wrote an early draft for the script and that Disney is now finding more writers.
Ritchie is known for his gritty action films such as Sherlock Holmes starring Robert Downey Jr. and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. He also did Snatch and Revolver.
1997’s Hercules was directed by Ron Clements and Jon Musker. It was a musical that told the story of Hercules, voiced by Tate Donovan, and his fight against Hades, played by James Woods. Whether the new live-action version will also be a musical remains to be seen, but brothers Joe and Anthony Russo told Collider in 2020 that they hadn’t decided yet, although music does play a role.
Anthony Russo told Collider that he and his brother are “Hercules fanatics.” When they learned that Disney was interested in making a live-action film, they argued to executives that they were the right partners to produce it. “And here we are,” said Anthony Russo.
His new live-action Hercules will not be a “literal translation” of the animated film. They are eager to bring “something new” with the film. According to him:
“We’re going to give you a different story. I think we’re going to do something that’s in the vein of the original and inspired by it, but we also bring some new elements to the setting.”
Hercules is just the latest Disney classic animated film to be turned into a live-action film. Other upcoming projects in Pinocchio with Tom Hanks, Snow White with Rachel Zegler and The Little Mermaid with Halle Bailey as Ariel.
This article is a translation of the writing by Eddie Makuch to the website GameSpot.
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