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1997’sHerculeswas signify to get a straight - to - video sequel film by Disney titledHercules II : The Trojan Warbased on the Grecian write up by Homer . The Trojan War is a celebrated tale in Greek mythology and would have been interesting to see from a Disney perspective .
However , the plot of the sequel film sounds a niggling morsel off , and many Disney fan seem rather contented with the fact that this film had been canceled , no matter how much they bonk and enjoyed the original film .
Canceled Before Finishing Proposal
Hercules IIwas actually scratch before it could even be through with the proposal leg . The narration had been draft , but not much else had been completed with it . Because the proposal phase of the film had n’t been finished yet , the idea of the sequel film had been for good canceled , with no hope of returning to the theme . This was believably for the best as aHerculessequel film likely would n’t have done as well .
Supposed To Take Place After The Animated Series
The alive series ran from 1998 to 1999 and was earlier meant to lead into the film , much like how theAladdin Animated Seriesended with the third installing , Aladdin and the King of Thieves . The serial is considered a " midquel " due to the fact that it have place in between the first picture . It feature a teenage Hercules after he meets Phil but before he becomesthe hulking human beings who saves Thebes and Olympus .
Takes Place Years Later
The subsequence film was mean to take place a few twelvemonth after the initial movie . While the first film carry place with Hercules becoming a young adult and starting his young relationship with Megara , who he chose to be mortal withinstead of liveliness as a divinity in Olympus , this film seems to continue their story . Meg and Hercules are still a couplein this flick and have develop even further since the last .
Meg & Hercules Live In Athens
Megara and Herculeswere said to have left Thebes and Olympus behind and were now theorize to occupy in Athens with one another . This means their relationship took off after they select to be with one another at the terminal of the first film .
Athens is know to be a central location for many Greek mythology and somewhereHerculesfans have n’t seen yet in Disney . It would have been interesting to see how the animation squad set up the location for the moving picture .
Meg & Hercules Have A Daughter
To further Megara and Hercules ’s relationship point , the two live with their daughter in this film , Hebe . What ’s weird about this is who Hebeactually is in Hellenic mythology , a mythos that Disney greatly like to dismiss . In the original legend of Hercules , he and Meg ( his first wife and the girl of the king of Thebes ) had five children together , all of which Hercules killed in a fit of craziness influencedby Hera ( who was not his biological female parent ) . In some legends , Hercules kills Meg in this fit as well . Hercules marries three more times after Meg , and his concluding and fourth wife is Hebe . So it ’s a little weird that Disney wanted to name Meg and Herc ’s girl after Herc ’s fourth wife ( and goddess of youth ) .
Paris Kidnaps Herc’s Old Friend
In the picture show , Paris of Troy kidnaps one of Hercules ’s old friends , Helen . In some of the narrative of the Trojan War , Helen of Sparta ( wife to the king of Sparta ) was take to Troy for be with Paris after she was promise to him by Aphrodite , the goddess of love and sweetheart . In some stories , the brace were in love , while in others it acted as more of a snatch . Either way , this chronicle was the accelerator for the Trojan War as the Greeks endure to take her back . InHercules II , Helen was Herc ’s old friend and take against her will .
Hercules Joins The Greek Army
Because his old Quaker , Helen , was taken by the malevolent Paris of Troy , Hercules joined the united Greek army as they get quick for war in order of magnitude to rescue his protagonist . Paris was mean to act as the main antagonist in this tale and was the opposing force to the Greeks in the story .
Little else is known about the story or why Paris took Helen in the first place . But Hercules ’s firmness of purpose to save his acquaintance would have had him joining the U. S. Army and make some new revelations .
Scheduled To Release In 2001
This film was originally scheduled to be release in 2001 , two year after the series ended in 1999 and 3 years after the first film in 1997 . What is interesting is that with a 2001 release , the plastic film ’s lineament believably would n’t have been nearly as rocky life - wise as the invigorate series nor the consecutive - to - videoAladdinfilms . Mulancame out a year afterHercules , in 1998 , and its subsequence was released square - to - video recording in 2004 , three years after the supposed sequel toHerculeswould have been unfreeze . The quality ofMulan IIwas fairly slap-up andHerculesprobably would have been in a alike data format .
Became An Episode
The mind of Hercules being feature in the Trojan state of war was actually something Disney fiddle around with more than once . In the animated series , there is an episode titled " Hercules and the Trojan War " that follows a much different secret plan than the film had wanted to go for . In this episode , the story of the war is retold as a in high spirits school competition between Prometheus Academy ( Herc ’s school day ) and their Trojan rival . Paris try out to pull a prank on the rivaling schooling by slip Helen , the return nance , and inspiring Hercules and his friend to go deliver her but is afterward revealed that Helen was n’t kidnapped , but went on her own accord to discuss the rivalry .
All Straight-To-Video Projects Canceled
In 2006 , John Lasseter assume over as the principal originative advisor at Disney and was in commission of all the animated works at the clock time . He decided it would be best if he scrub all straight - to - video task Disney had been working on since they were not producing as much as they should . Because of his cancelation , any hope of refund to theHercules II : The Trojan Warproject was left to be permanently canceled as that film would have been released straight - to - video .
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