Game of Thrones creator George R.R. Martin is joining up with Lion Forge Entertainment to produce a new animated movie about the fabled 12 labors of Hercules (or Heracles, as the mythic hero is known in his native Greece), as reported by THR. The film will be co-produced by Lion Forge Entertainment CEO and founder David Steward II, and Lion Forge president and chief creative officer Stephanie Sperber.
Titled A Dozen Tough Jobs, the film is an adaptation of the 1989 novel of the same name by writer Howard Waldrop, which takes the 12 impossible tasks assigned to Hercules by the mythical King Eurystheus, which involve everything from slaying the Hydra, to cleaning the dirtiest stables in the world, and transports the story to Mississippi in the '20s, with Hercules portrayed as a sharecropper fighting against bigotry.
