I am – Hercules!!

Another day, another Warren Ellis story. Robert Schwentke, German director of “Flightplan” (38% positive among “top critics” at Rotten Tomatoes) and “The Time Traveler’s Wife” (due Aug. 14), is talking to Summit Entertainment about helming “Red,” based on Ellis' acclaimed graphic novel. The story deals with a retired black-ops CIA operative surprised one day by a high-tech assassin determined to kill him. Bruce Willis is aboard as the main character. Erich & Jon Hoeber (the Kate Beckinsale Antarctica thriller "Whiteout," due in September) penned the screenplay. I’m excited, I suppose, not because it’s Schwentke, but because the hiring of a director provides more evidence that Ellis’ nutty, uberviolent story is really headed to the big screen. Summit is the shop behind everything from “Memento” to “American Pie” to “Insomnia,” “Vanilla Sky,” “Wrong Turn,” “Mr. & Mrs. Smith,” “The Brothers Grimm,” “The Hottie and the Nottie,” “Happy-Go-Lucky,” “Step Up,” “Once,” “P2,” “In The Valley of Elah,” “Sex Drive,” “Push,” “Knowing” and the “Twilight” saga. Find all of The Hollywood Reporter’s story on the matter here. Follow Herc on Twitter!