Regisseur Brett Ratner gaat hoogstwaarschijnlijk de stripreeks Hercules: The Thracian Wars van Radical Publishing naar het witte doek brengen. De regisseur van o.a. X-Men: The Last Stand (2006), Red Dragon (2002) en Rush Hour (1998) is volgens de website Vulture in gesprek met filmmaatschappij MGM. Van Ratner hebben we de afgelopen jaren weinig meer gezien. Zijn laatste film Rush Hour 3 stamt alweer uit 2007. November dit jaar verschijnt zijn film Tower Heist, met namen als Ben Stiller, Eddie Murphy, Matthew Broderick en Casey Affleck.
De comic Hercules: The Thracian Wars gaat over de latere jaren van de Griekse held. De strip komt van de hand van schrijver Steve Moore en tekenaar Admira Wijaya en wordt geprezen over de accuraatheid van de historische mythe rond Hercules, die half man/half god is. De cover:
Fourteen-hundred years ago, a tormented soul walked the Earth that was neither man nor god. Hercules, 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 bloody battle. Over the years he warmed to the company of six similar souls, their only bond being their love of fighting and the presence of death. These men and woman never question where, why, or whom they go to fight; only how much they will be paid. Knowing this, the King of Thrace has hired these mercenaries to train his men to become the greatest army of all time. Hercules begins to question King Cotys' motives when he takes his army out to battle and sees them practice on innocent men, women, and children of their neighbors. Deep in his soul something stirs, but is it enough to stop a mad king and his army of the damned from marching across Greece - or even Olympus itself?!
