{"id":26422,"date":"2013-02-04T12:09:46","date_gmt":"2013-02-04T17:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=26422"},"modified":"2013-02-04T12:18:25","modified_gmt":"2013-02-04T17:18:25","slug":"renny-harlin-to-direct-hercules-3d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2013\/02\/04\/renny-harlin-to-direct-hercules-3d\/","title":{"rendered":"Renny Harlin To Direct HERCULES 3D"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/RennyHarlin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-26423\" alt=\"The Covenant\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/RennyHarlin-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/RennyHarlin-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/RennyHarlin.jpg 485w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Renny Harlin is heading to ancient Greece. He will be directing Millennium\u2019s planned 3D telling of the legends of the Greek demi-god, Hercules.<\/p>\n<p>The $70-million-budgeted film is already in pre-production with a hoped for May shooting start for an anticipated March 2014 release. The script is by Sean Hood and Hanna Weg and in remarks to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/heat-vision\/hercules-3d-renny-harlin-direct-417744\" target=\"_blank\">Hollywood Reporter<\/a>, Harlin hints that the film may have a more realistic feel than expected.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It&#8217;s not a comic book, cartoony fantasy thing. It&#8217;s closer to Gladiator than flying horses.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t the only Herclues movie that is racing to theaters. MGM is currently developing their own version of the classic myth with director Brett Ratner and to star Dwayne Johnson. MGM&#8217;s version is currently scheduled for an Aug. 8, 2014 release.<\/p>\n<p>The director of <strong>Die Hard 2<\/strong> and <strong>Cutthroat Island<\/strong> was rather magnanimous about the other project.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I think these are very different kinds of movies in their approach to this legendary character. Obviously, Hercules has been portrayed in many different films, such as the Disney animated movie. I wish them luck. Ancient Greek mythology is an endless source of good stories &#8230; Let&#8217;s see both movies be successful.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I have to say that Harlin&#8217;s attitude is refreshingly nice considering how cut throat (See what I did there?) things usually are in Hollywood.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully, this will be a hit for Harlin, who has not had a theatrical film hit in some time. Recently, he has been directing episodes of the USA Network series <em>Burn Notice<\/em> and <em>Covert Affairs<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">This is just the first of two Hercules projects heading our way in 2014.<\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2013\/02\/04\/renny-harlin-to-direct-hercules-3d\/\" title=\"Renny Harlin To Direct HERCULES 3D\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26423,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[6127,1531],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-26422","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-hercules-3d","9":"tag-renny-harlin"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26422"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=26422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}