When it comes to Hollywood badassery I’m most excited about here in 2014, few flicks match up to Hercules — starring none other than Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson.
Directed by Brett Ratner, and co-starring John Hurt, Ian McShane, Rufus Sewell and Joseph Fiennes, the movie looks leagues better than the disappointing Legends of Hercules film released earlier this year. The new trailer contains some great (if potentially spoiler-filled) moments: showing Hercules face off against all manner of mythological nasties, in addition to a PETA-baiting scene in which he kills an attacking lion and makes a stylish hat out of him.
It was all clearly enough to pump up The Rock as he tweeted the following prior to its release:
In 20 minutes I’ll post the EXCLUSIVE FULL LENGTH WORLD PREMIERE #HERCULESMovie trailer. Enough time to dominate 12 egg whites. #NoYolk4HERC
— Dwayne Johnson (@TheRock) June 3, 2014
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Luke Dormehl is a U.K.-based journalist and author, with a background working in documentary film for Channel 4 and the BBC. He is the author of The Apple Revolution and The Formula: How Algorithms Solve All Our Problems … and Create More, both published by Penguin/Random House. His tech writing has also appeared in Wired, Fast Company, Techmeme and other publications.
4 responses to “The Rock lays the mythological smackdown in new Hercules trailer”
I thought this was Cult of Mac?
I’m psyched. After the disappointing Godzilla and X-Men (which was better than the previous one), I wanna see a hero that can kick some butt!
Why is this on here? If I wanted to read about movie news I would visit a site that specializes in movie news. This is supposed to be an Apple site. Is the Rock using an Apple product in the trailer? I’m confused CoM, why are you including this crap on your site?
Fellas, fellas…this makes perfect sense. After this film under-performs and speeds out of theaters, it will be available on iTunes and you can watch it on your iPad. See? Totally relevant!