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How Many HERCULESes Does It Take To...??
Merrick here...
Russian bodybuilder/actor Alexander Nevsky (yeah, I know) is putting together a $12 million dollar Hercules project called HERCULES: THE BEGINNING.
There've been almost as many Herculeses as Bonds, including Steve Reeves back in the 50s, Lou Ferrigno back in the 80s...
...animated Herculeses & Sorbo back in the 90s, and the guy who runs our Coaxial section.
Nevsky will play the classic Roman hero adopted from Greek legend (where he's called Heracles).
THIS ARTICLE in Hollywood Reporter.
Nevsky's project is unrelated (except in name and, well, source material) to the recently announced Peter Berg HERCULES, for which you can find details HERE.
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very
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which is a shame cos theres real potential for someone to do a proper clash of the titans style epic, focused on Hercules/Heracles. instead it'll look more like a conana rip off.... they always do.
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you heard me. Ahem.
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"Your play lacks subtlety. You can't just have your characters saying how they feel...that makes me feel ANGRY!"
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this isn't one of them.
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"Every myth has a beginning...."Where's my check?
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Your parents have to be awfully pompous to name your child after the hero who defeated the Teutonic Knights during the battle on the ice. It is also the name of my one of my favorite films, with a kick ass score by Prokofiev. It is arguably the greatest film score ever recorded.
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BUT AIH AM HERCHULEES!
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I cannot deny the epic logic of your argument!
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No one sings anything about taking in a Kevin Sorbo movie.
So let me show you around, maybe play you a sound
You look like you're both pretty groovy
Or if you want something visual that's not too abysmal
We could take in an old Steve Reeves movie. -
I mean I shouldn't talk but then I never tried out for Hercules.
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http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/watchmen/high.html
GOT TO WATCH!!!!! -
He looks like a crap Hercules! Plus im not being funny but what kind of Hercules film can you make for 12 mil
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Sorry, I love that Disney animated flick and couldn't help myself...
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One of my favourite animated movies!
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...I remember when that show came out I thought "THIS guy is Hecules?" I mean, sure, Sorbo could kick my ass but he's playing freaking HERCULES. This is the Superman of 300 B.C. He should be freaking RIPPED. They should have cast Sorbo as Odysseus/Ulysses. THAT I could buy.
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All time best send up of the Italian made Hercs. At 12mil ya gotta believe it won't be all different in quality.
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xena movie?
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No money to build sets, so take him out of time
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It didn't have Amazon links to a thousand unrelated products at the bottom of it.
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Did anybody happen to ever see an Australian movie about a guy and his friends that open a movie theater? The first movie they show was a Hercules film, but it had no sound, so he and his friends had to crowd in the projection booth and do the soundtrack for the whole movie. It was really funny in the style of MST3K, and I can never seem to find a copy of it anywhere.
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It's called Hercules Returns. Amazon's got it on VHS for $105.00. They're practically giving them away!
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. . .either put Kevin Sorbo in it or FORGET IT!
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that people think that Hercules is on the same level as Xena... Xena was a FICTIONAL piece of crap. Hercules is a Greek myth, based on some truth, and goes way beyond that crappy tv show. a real Hecules movie could be great. IT could be like Troy (except good.) You could throw 200 million at a Hercules movie and it would be fantastic. what would be even better would be a series of interlinking films focusing on different heroes in greeky mythology. Greek Myth has basically the same structure as the Marvel universe has now.
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Hercules
Hero of song and story
Hercules
Winner of ancient glory
Fighting for the right
Fighting with his might
Wishing he could be in
Real animation
That's the mighty
Hercules!
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Alexander Nevsky was without a doubt the best work that Eisenstein ever did - really, just think a Russian John Huston. Just what this guy intends to do with Hercules is... Open to debate.
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I freaking love that soundtrack and I love Prokoviev...his Romeo and Juliet (specifically "Montagues & Capulets" is also ass kicking fun). I love those more aggresive classical numbers...even in the midst of love stories! Sergei kicks ass!
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Gotta say, I met Alexander Nevsky in LA last year and whatever the comparisons to Arnold etc, spend five minutes with him and he'll get you genuinely excited about the projects he's involved with. I'd definitely rate him as a guy who can get things done and his Moscow Heat was fun enough.
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HA! the 80's sucked.
Brought to you by the canon group. -
The dynamic Duo who gave us such cinematic heights as Ferrigno's Hercules, Superman IV, and Masters of the Universe. And to think, these guys owned the rights to Spider-Man during the 80's.
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Its the match up we've all wanted to see since the dawn of the letter 'V'.
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Thats lower than your average indie film budget nowadays! What the fuck is this shit? Its going to look worse than those shitty Sci-Fi channel movies.
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pray to their gods that it comes out nothing short of excellent. Or a whole world of hurt is gonna come raining down on them.
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Are you sure it isn't $12 Billion?
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Now, that would be awesome.
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I'd watch that.
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from Dell, Marvel, Charlton, DC, Topps and Acclaim.
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Herbie Popnecker or Herbie the Love Bug?
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why does he need muscles?
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I liked Lou better when he played Sinbad.
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Does anyone else remember this mid-80s SNL sketch with Bill Murray as a dubbed-over Hercules? Fuckin' hilarious.
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