Merrick here...

Variety tells us that Millennium Films is prepping yet another iteration of HERCULES. This is, no doubt, sparred by the success of 300, and because there have been so few spins on the story in recent years (how many have there been, 73 trillion...there 'bouts?).

The project has already been scripted by Sean Hood. He wrote THE CROW: WICKED PRAYER and HALLOWEEN: RESURRECTION. No word yet on how they’ll approach this material, or who will direct.

300 stylization, perhaps? An angstier, angrier hero seeking redemption? A young, beautiful, misunderstood bad boy vying for the love of an excessively violable maiden chick – even though the dashing bad guy (the son of some king) already has her attention? Or, maybe the concept will be reinvented, and Hercules will find himself an uncharacteristically talented professional wrestler, who comes to learn that he’s actually the descendant of Gods & must defeat the local Ganstas (Wesley Snipes and Snoop Dog) in order to save the Hood. Lest a horrible misunderstanding occur, I’m just goofing around here…I don’t know what they’re up to.

All I know is that I smell another 2 hour long History Channel special airing the night before the film’s release, and that they’d better consider Coaxial’s Hercules for the title role before going any further. 'Cause, you know, a creature of might he is.

For my money, no one will ever equal the strange and troubling Lou Ferrigno HERCULES movie. Check out these clips. I can’t decide which moment rocks harder: the line of dudes being slowly smashed into the wall by Lou Ferrigno’s tree trunk (that doesn’t sound right, does it?), or Hercules applying the physics he must have learned in Sweaty Muscle Man Combat School to propel his chariot through the heavens. It’s all, very Mel Brooksian, isn't it?

Read the original Variety article HERE!!!