Paramount Pictures and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios have announced that Golden Globe-winner Ian McShane (Deadwood), Rufus Sewell (Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter), Joseph Fiennes (Shakespeare In Love), Rebecca Ferguson (The White Queen), Aksel Hennie (Headhunters) and Academy Award®-nominee John Hurt (Immortals) have joined the cast of the upcoming film Hercules, starring Dwayne Johnson and directed by Brett Ratner. The film is set to begin production in May.

Based on Radical Studio’s graphic novel ‘Hercules: The Thracian Wars,’ the ensemble-action film is a revisionist take on the classic myth set in a grounded world where the supernatural does not exist. The screenplay is by Ryan Condal and Evan Spiliotopoulos.

Producers are Beau Flynn, Barry Levine and Brett Ratner; executive producers are Peter Berg, Sarah Aubrey and Jesse Berger.

“We are thrilled to surround Dwayne with an ensemble cast featuring legendary actors as well as some of the finest emerging talents working today,” said Jonathan Glickman, MGM’s President, Motion Picture Group.

“We are anxious to get production underway on what promises to be a high-action film that works around the globe.”

Hercules marks the reinvigorated MGM’s second original project, in addition to the previously announced film The Machine with Vin Diesel scheduled to begin production later this year.

The studio has several films slated for release this year including another Paramount partnership with GI Joe: Retaliation set for release March 28, Carrie with Sony’s Screen Gems due October 18 and The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug with New Line/Warner Bros. set for December 13.

Hercules will be distributed by Paramount Pictures on August 1, 2014.

Here are some photos that I just added to the image archive. The photos are from the Portrait Session for AHS: Asylum 0n October 26th, AHS: Asylum premiere in Los Angeles on October 13th and the most recent event at the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week on January 17th. Enjoy!

   

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Portraits • #004
Public Appearances • 2012 • AHS: Asylum Premiere – October 13
Public Appearances • 2013 • Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week – January 17

Here are the DVD Screen Captures for The Great Raid (2005). Enjoy!

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Great Raid, The (2005) • DVD Screen Captures

Here are the DVD screen captures from the film Forever Mine (1999), starring Joseph Fiennes, Gretchen Mol and Ray Liota. Enjoy!

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Forever Mine (1999) • DVD Screen Captures

Here are some lovely Blu-Ray Screen Captures for Goodbye Bafana (2007), featuring Joseph Fiennes. Enjoy!

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Goodbye Bafana (2007) • DVD Screen Captures

Here are the DVD screen captures from the film The Escapist (2008), featuring Joseph Fiennes. Enjoy!

   

Here are the DVD screen captures from the film The Darwin Awards (2006), starring Joseph Fiennes and Winona Ryder. I apologize because the captures aren’t the best. Hopefully I will find a better copy soon. In the meantime enjoy!

   

FX’s American Horror Storymay have found the head of its insane asylum.

FlashForward star Joseph Fiennes is in talks to join the second season of the FX anthology series from Glee co-creators Ryan Murphy andBrad Falchuk, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.

As first reported by EW, Fiennes would play the head of the East Coast institution for the criminally insane whereJessica Lange’s new character is employed. Fiennes’ character will also be a love interest for Lange’s character, who is charged with running the joint.

The casting marks the second time Murphy and Fiennes will work together; the actor starred in theAHS co-creator’s 2008 FX drama pilotPretty/Handsome, in which he played a family man struggling with his gender identity.

Fiennes would join an all-star cast for the rebooted second season. In addition to Season 1 cast members coming back to play different characters Lange,Zachary Quinto, Evan Peters, Sarah Paulsonand Lily Rabe, the second-season cast includesChloe Sevigny, The Voice‘s Adam Levine, Oscar nominee James Cromwell and newcomer Lizzie Brochere.

Here are the DVD Screen Captures for the film Against The Current. Enjoy!

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- DVD Screen Captures (Against the Current)