The Legend of Hercules (movie)

Synopsis

Amphitryon, king of Thebes, married to Queen Alcmene, becomes more and more violent and savage. Alcmène feels nothing for her husband and goes to pray to the goddess Hera. This one comes out of its representation and informs Alcmène that soon, Zeus and this last one will have a child who will be called Hercules. A few days later, Zeus descends from Olympus, but does not take the human form: he is invisible. The sexual relationship that Zeus and Alcmene have together is discovered by Amphitryon who wants to condemn Alcmene to death but he can not. Nine months later, Alcmene gives birth. Amphitryon, knowing that this child is not from him, calls him Alcide and informs his wife that he will never have his on the throne and that Iphicles (eldest son of the king and the queen) will be his only and unique heir. Twenty years later, Hercules falls in love with the princess of Crete. Iphicles and Amphitryon ally; the king gives to Iphicles the princess of Crete and sends Hercules …

Technical sheet

• Original title: The Legend of Hercules
• French title: La Légende d’Hercule
• Director: Renny Harlin
• Scenario: Sean Hood & Daniel Giat
• Artistic direction: Luca Tranchino
• Sets: Sonya Savova
• Costumes: Sonoo Mishra
• Photography: Sam McCurdy
• Sound: Trevor Gates
• Editing: Vincent Tabaillon
• Music: Tuomas Kantelinen , Valere Kaletka ¹ , Jacques Saly ¹ , Mathieu Lavarenne ¹ & Pat Jabbar ¹
• Production: Boaz Davidson, Danny Dimbort, Joe Gatta, Renny Harlin , Avi Lerner , Danny Lerner, Trevor Short and Les Weldon
• Production Company (s): Millennium Films
• Distribution Company (s):
• Budget: 70 million of US dollars ^{[ref. necessary]}
• Country of origin: United States
• Original language: English
• Format: Color – 35mm – 2.35: 1 Digital Dolby Sound
• Genre: Peplum , Mythology
• Duration: 99 minutes
• Release dates:
  •  Hong Kong : January 9 , 2014
  •  United States : January 10 , 2014
  •  France : March 19 , 2014

Distribution

• Kellan Lutz (VF: Stéphane Pouplard) : Hercules
• Roxanne McKee (VF: Margot Faure ) : Queen Alcmene
• Liam McIntyre (VF: Adrien Antoine ) : Sotiris
• Liam Garrigan (VF: Arnaud Arbessier) : Iphicles
• Gaia Weiss (VF: Herself) : Hebe
• Johnathon Schaech (VF: Damien Boisseau ) : Tarak
• Scott Adkins (VF: Loïc Houdré ) : King Amphitryon
• Kenneth Cranham (VF: Vincent Grass ) : Lucius
• Mariah Gail (VF: Carole Gioan ) : Kakia
• Rade Serbedzija (VF: Patrick Raynal ) : Chiron
• Richard Reid : Archer

Source and caption : French version (VF) on AlloDoublage ²

See also

Related article

• Hercules

External links

• (In) The Legend of Hercules [ archive ] on the Internet Movie Database
• The Legend of Hercules [ archive ] on Allociné

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