Norwegian actor Aksel Hennie is moving up. He starred in last year’s wonderful thriller Headhunters, and now he’ll be making his American debut. He’s joined the cast of the upcoming Hercules movie, which already has Dwayne Johnson attached as the mythological Greek hero.

Now, that’s the good news. The bad news is pretty much everything else that has to do with this project. For one thing, it’s not based on any actual Greek myth, but a graphic novel that “reimagines” Hercules as a normal human being rather than a demigod, in a world bereft of gods or monsters. | Full Story