Disney's live-action Hercules will put a "modern spin" on the Olympian tale while also retaining some essential elements from the 1997 animated classic, according to producers Joe and Anthony Russo.

Hercules is introduced in the DC Universe not as a hero, but as an adversary of Wonder Woman. As in the myth, one of Hercules’ Twelve Labors is to acquire the girdle of the Amazon’s queen, who is ...

Emma Stafford has received funding from the AHRC for the Hercules Project (https://herculesproject.leeds.ac.uk/). “Whose daring deeds are great theatre? Hercules!” So sing the Muses, as they close act ...

A Disney musical based on the 1997 animated movie feels as though its creators wanted to get to the finish line and move on. By Matt Wolf Reviewing from London How could a show about such an outsize ...

It might be faint praise but this adaptation of Disney’s 1997 animated film, which plays fast and loose with ancient Greek myth, is like the slickest panto you’ve ever seen. Director/choreographer ...

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A 1,700-year-old Roman sarcophagus depicting a legendary drinking contest has been discovered in Israel, the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) announced Monday (June 9). Archaeologists uncovered the ...

The dancefloor's 100 most essential tracks. The term “dance music” may conjure visions of heaving clubs, packed festival tents and partying with abandon, and certainly these concepts are a substantial ...

Archaeologists discovered a 1,700-year-old 20-inch statue of Hercules in Florence, Italy. A student with a pickaxe discovered the miniature marble statue in three fragments. The fragments all fit ...

Hercules police postponed a coffee event with police following negatives comments on social media. Community members are upset that police used a Taser on a young man having an epileptic seizure. The ...

Police in the East Bay are facing a new lawsuit for an incident where officers tasered a man who had just had a seizure and crashed his vehicle because he wasn't obeying officers' orders to get out of ...