Montreal Meets The Minotaur In "Immortals"

The city of Montreal, Quebec, whose CGI houses recreated the ancient world of 'Sparta' in "300", will now host Relativity Media's Greek mythology feature "Immortals" (aka "War of Gods") now prepping for a mid-April start.

The action adventure, based on a screenplay by Christian Gudegast, Charley and Vlas Parlapanides, stars actors John Hurt, Stephen Dorff, Kellan Lutz, Henry Cavill, Mickey Rourke and Freida Pinto for director Tarsem Singh. Dorff will play 'Stavros', a master thief who joins 'Theseus' on his quest to help free Greece from the 'Titans'.

According to legend, the Titans were a race of powerful deities, descendants of 'Gaia' and 'Uranus', that ruled during the legendary 'Golden Age' of Greece.

The first generation of 'Twelve Titans', were the males 'Oceanus', 'Hyperion', 'Coeus', 'Cronus', 'Crius' and 'Iapetus', The females were 'Mnemosyne', 'Tethys', 'Theia', 'Phoebe', 'Rhea' and 'Themis'.

The second generation of Titans consisted of Hyperion's children 'Eos', 'Helios' and 'Selene', Coeus's daughters 'Leto' and 'Asteria', Iapetus's sons 'Atlas', 'Prometheus', 'Epimetheus', 'Menoetius' and Crius's sons 'Astraeus', 'Pallas' and 'Perses'.

Theseus was the founder-king of Athens, fathered by the god 'Poseidon' and 'Aethra', the wife of the king 'Aegeus', giving him a combination of divine and mortal characteristics. In his 'journey of labours', Theseus kills numerous orgres and monsters, including a half-man, half-horse 'centaur' and the half-man, half-bull 'Minotaur' in the 'Labyrinth'.

To be released by Universal November 11, 2011, "Immortals" is produced by "300" partners Gianni Nunnari, Hollywood Gang Prods., Mark Canton, Atmosphere Entertainment MM and Ryan Kavanaugh, Relativity Media...