Peter Berg is directing half man/half God, HERCULES!

Peter Berg (Hancock, The Kingdom) is already attached to remake the fantasy movie Dune for Paramount but today comes news of a potentially bigger epic. It's been announced that Universal have hired the helmer to spearhead a new movie based on the famous legend of Greek mythology, Hercules. The project is based on the new 5 issue comic book series that debuted in May from Steve Moore. The movie will be titled Hercules: The Thracian Wars (what's wrong with just Hercules) and will be co-financed by Spyglass Entertainment and produced by Berg's own Film 44 and Radical Pictures MMM, I love the Hercules character - I've always found him more fascinating than the likes of Conan and the writings of Robert E. Howard but I'm not sure Berg is the man here. If his last two movies have shown us anything it's that Berg is a terrific director of action sequences but hasn't got a clue narratively how to direct a blockbuster movie or epic sized movie. And his directing is so modern, he feels like an MTV director. Would that suit a movie about Greek mythology, I'm not so sure? As the Hercules character is in the public domain, the rival project from writer Sean Hood (Halloween: Resurrection, The Crow: Wicked Prayer) at Millenium Films is not effected by this move - though we haven't heard any movement on it since May 2007. It would seem the studio weren't all that keen on the script, and had put the project on the backburner with adapts of Conan and Red Sonja being more important. source - variety