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The Random Thread of Random Randomness

Scalenex said:
I cannot imagine Disney going back to the original mythological roots on any classic tale. Among other things, Hades was not a nemesis of Hercules/Heracles. Hera was his divine nemesis and his mortal nemesis was King Eurystheus. Maybe James Wood could play Eurystheus but he's a little old to play a non-animated non-CGI character.

Not just Disney, but Hollywood in general is loathe to make big budget rated R movies and any Hercules story "true to the source material" would have to be rated R. If I was given billions of dollars and told to make movies and shows that I would like, I might make a dark and gritty general Greek mythology that stayed close to the original myths, but maybe the original are too dark for even edgy viewers.
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Tk'ya'pyk said:
Um, yeah, plus I'm pretty sure any true-to-myth Greek mythology movie would have to be rated X, not R. Lots of sex in Greek myths. I suppose they could do true-to-myth Egyptian, but that's not much better and includes necromancy, but then Greek myth does too. Hmm...

Personally, I would rather see a properly done, true-to-myth, Hades and Persephone myth movie (with James Wood doing Hades again). Hercules is kind of overdone.
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I didn't mean for Disney to follow the Greek myths to the complete letter with every adult detail included, but at least they could follow the general storyline of Herc with Hera and Eurystheus as his enemies, and Hades would still feature as Herc would have to steal Cerberus from the underworld as his last task, so James Woods could at the very least have a cameo.

@Tk'ya'pyk Egyptian myth has its own fair share of X-Rated moments, in particular their world creation myth is one of the dirtiest out there.
 
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