Film Music Reporter

Tuomas Kantelinen is reteaming with director Renny Harlin on the upcoming period action adventure Hercules: The Legend Begins. The film stars Kellan Lutz in the title role, alongside Liam McIntyre, Gaia Weiss, Scott Adkins, Roxanne McKee and Liam Garrigan. The movie tells the love story between the son of Zeus and the mortal princess of Crete, who was promised to his own brother despite her love for Hercules. Harlin has co-written the screenplay with Sean Hood (Conan the Barbarian, Halloween: Resurrection) and Steve Giulio. Les Welden and Danny Lerner (The Expendables 2, Olympus Has Fallen) are producing the  Nu Image/Millennium Films production. Harlin has previously collaborated with Kantelinen on 2004’s Mindhunters. The director’s other previous musical collaborators include Michael Kamen (Die Hard 2), John Debney (Cutthroat Island), Trevor Jones (Cliffhanger), Alan Silvestri (The Long Kiss Goodnight), BT (Driven) and Trevor Rabin (Deep Blue Sea). Hercules: The Legend Begins was shot in 3D and is expected to premiere in 2014.