Disney has announced that Guy Ritchie, who directed 2019’s live-action Aladdin starring Will Smith that made over $1 billion at the box office, is now lined up to direct another Disney live-action film. He will direct the live-action take on Disney’s classic animated movie Hercules.

ABGO, the production company headed up with Avengers directors Joe and Anthony Russo, is producing the movie. Deadline reports that Dave Callaham (Wonder Woman: 1984, Shang-Chi) wrote an initial draft for the script and that Disney is now finding more writers.

Ritchie is known for his action-oriented, gritty films like Sherlock Holmes starring Robert Downey Jr. and Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels. He also made Snatch and Revolver.

1997’s Hercules was directed by Ron Clements and Jon Musker. It was a musical that told the story of Hercules, voiced by Tate Donovan, and his fight against Hades, who was played by James Woods. Whether or not the new live-action version will also be a mu…