Paramount Pictures reports that director Brett Ratner will adapt the Radical Comics' graphic novel "Hercules: The Thracian Wars", with the studio targeting a theatrical release August 8, 2014, one week after Marvel's "Guardians Of The Galaxy" opens.
The difference in the two films is that Disney's Marvel release will be geared to all-audiences, whereas "Hercules", like the comics series, will be hard R for nudity and ultra-violence :
"...fourteen hundred years ago, a tormented soul walked the earth that was neither man nor god. 'Hercules', the powerful son of the god king 'Zeus' received nothing but suffering his entire life.
"After twelve arduous labors and the loss of his family, this dark, world-weary soul turned his back on the gods finding his only solace in battle.
"Over the years he warmed to the company of six similar souls, never questioning where they go to fight or why or whom, just how much they will be paid.
"Now the 'King of Thrace' has hired these mercenaries to train his men to become the greatest army of all time. It is time for this bunch of lost souls to finally have their eyes opened to how far they have fallen when they must train an army to become as ruthless as their reputation has become..."
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