It often seems as if the Morning Deal Report would be just as accurate if I had a hatful of Hollywood names and a hatful of recycled ideas, and simply drew randomly from both of them. For instance, from one hat I might produce the name "Peter Berg," most recently director of Hancock, while the other hat offers up "Hercules," yet another character no one really cares about reviving. Yet here it is in Variety: "Berg will produce and will develop to direct Hercules: The Thracian Wars, a co-production of Spyglass Entertainment, Berg’s Film 44 and Radical Pictures. Spyglass and Universal will co-finance the film. Ryan Condal will write the script, based on a five-issue comicbook series by Steve Moore that debuted in May through Radical Publishing." Of course. It goes without saying that I have a third hat, and every slip of paper in it reads "based on a comic book."
Which brings us to Capeshooters, another comic book adaptation forthcoming from Warner Bros.
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