Fitting in perfectly with the "Beauty and the Beast" model of straightforward remakes of animated musicals, "Hercules" would benefit from current technology in its ability to augment or even wholly represent characters from the original classic. Hercules could probably be a flesh-and-blood person, but characters like Hades or his minions Pain and Panic would have to be either wholly computer-generated or using some ungodly combination of mo-cap and live-action. Also, the songs from "Hercules" are really, really, ridiculously good and, given the right staging, could really come to life in new and profound ways.
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