Lest you think that this Hercules film will be a study of Greek mythology, a period piece that examines the infancy of civilization, now’s as good a time as any to mention that Brett Ratner is directing the film and it’s based on a comic book published by Radical Comics.

It’s like Wrath of the Titans meets…Clash of the Titans. Yay!

This project has been kicking around since 2008, when Peter Berg was attached to direct. But art called, so Peter Berg went off to do the Battleship movie with Rihanna, leaving Ratner and The Rock to delight in this film that no one anywhere is excited to see at all.

Next up for The Rock is Pain and Gain from Michael Bay, while next up for Ratner is another semester of sensitivity classes.

But will audiences be able to see him as anything but the Scorpion King?

_{Riots flare in Greece as Ratner is considered for ‘Hercules’.}

Director Brett Ratner is in talks to ruin the legend of Hercules, The LA Times is reporting. Millennium/Nu Image has been developing the project for three years, and apparently just decided to say "f*ck it, I don’t care any more, it’s gonna suck no matter what we do." Shortly thereafter, Ratner was brought in for negotiations. At any rate, I’m hopeful we’ll get to hear the line "Don’t ever touch Greek man’s radio" sometime soon.

I know it’s pretty lazy for a hack like me to make fun of Ratner, but in all fairness to Brett…actually, I don’t really have anything more to add to that statement.