"But we couldn't exactly pursue that line for a Disney family film.
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"One reason the stories have lasted so long is because they're full of sex and violence," said supervising animator Eric Goldberg.
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The Disney movie also avoids the myth that Hercules was born as a result of one of Zeus' many philanderings with a mortal. "We took suggestions that led us to Hades as a villain, though in mythology Hades was more just a dark guy the other gods tended to avoid." "There are different versions of Hercules in myth," Musker said. But in the Disney telling, Hercules' big headache is Hades, god of the underworld. In Greek myth, Hercules had trouble with his icky stepmother, the goddess Hera. Susan Egan's voice was used for the hero's love interest, Meg. "Hercules" features the voices of Tate Donovan as the hero, Danny DeVito as his personal trainer, Phil, and James Woods as the villain, Hades. "And then we twisted the myth to suit our purposes as animators." "We devoured Bullfinch, Edith Hamilton, Robert Graves and everything else we could get our hands on," Musker said. Once the studio's senior muses green-lighted the project, Musker, as a co-director and co-writer, started reading up on Greek myth.
"In fact, he seemed a little like the Michael Jordan of ancient times."ĭisney fired up its "Hercules" filmmaking machine five years ago at a brainstorming session. He seems to have been the hero that people loved because he had a touch of innocence, and he persevered as an athlete-hero when all the odds were stacked against him. When we researched him at the British Museum, for example, Hercules' face was on a huge number of vases. "He was a populist hero in the ancient world. "Hercules clicked right away as a concept," said John Musker, co-director of this summer's Disney extravaganza. Much- revered epic poem wouldn't translate well to cartoon comedy. Studio executives briefly flirted with making an animated "Odyssey," but ditched the idea because Ercules," opening Friday, is Disney's first animated movie based on Greek mythology.
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