Hercules

Silje Torp

Alicia Vikander

Jamie Bell

Brett Gelman

Josh Brolin

## Plot

*Hercules* tells the story of the Greek God Hercules and his siblings, 2 years after the events of Thor: The God Butcher, Hercules is having a family dinner with his siblings, Athena, The Goddess of Wisdom, Artemis. Goddess of The Hunt, Dionysus, God of Wine and Hermes, Messenger of The Gods, when they hear a huge crash outside the temple, followed by a loud voice telling Zeus to come outside and face him, the family rush outside the temple to see a giant wielding a huge axe towering over a destroyed building, Zeus is shocked to see the giant and quickly summons his lightning bolt, he throws it towards the giant, but he manages to deflect it using his axe and the bolt hits another building and demolishes it, Hercules jumps up to its face and strikes the giant, but he is unfazed, the giant slaps Hercules back down to the ground, Artemis attempts to shoot it with arrows, but the giant barely feels them, he swings his axe towards the gods and knocks them back, apart from Hermes who used his speed to dodge the axe, Hermes then runs up the giant and begins to punch him, slowly wearing the giant down, he grabs one of Artemis’ arrows from the giants body and stabs him in the eye, the giant falls on to one knee and he creates a portal, he staggers through it and it closes, Hermes runs back to the other gods and they make their way back to the temple, Hercules asked Zeus what that thing was, Zeus told his children that his name was Typhon, he is one of the last remaining Titans, and he was imprisoned by Zeus thousands of years ago after he attempted to kill Zeus and claim Olympus for himself, Dionysus laughs and says that if Zeus beat him before he can do it again and that there is nothing to worry about, Zeus reminds Dionysus that he wasn’t as young as he was when he fought Typhon and that Typhon would have only gotten stronger over the years, Athena tells the family that she will go to the library, research Typhon and come up with a plan to imprison him again when he returns, Artemis suggest that they could just kill him instead, but Zeus tells them that Typhon is immortal, Athena begins to head to the library and the others begin to train for Typhon’s arrival, hours later, Athena returns to the temple and calls the gods to the dining hall, she told them that they could imprison Typhon on Tartarus, but they would have to create an earthquake so big that it would crack a hole through Olympus and into Tartarus, Zeus agreed that this was their best option and the gods awaited Typhon’s return, a few hours later they heard Typhon shout to them that he had returned and that this time, they would not be so lucky, the gods walked outside and got ready to execute their plan, Zeus, Hermes, Athena and Dionysus began to distract Typhon, while Hercules and Artemis began punching the ground beneath Typhon’s feet, after a while of the gods fighting, Typhon began to get annoyed, he let out a huge scream and began to transform into his true form, he grew almost double the size and snakes replaced his arms and legs, the snakes began to attack the gods, Artemis fought of the snakes while Hercules continued punching the ground, eventually Hercules managed to punch through the ground and a crack opened up, revealing Tartarus, Artemis shot an arrow into Typhon’s back, he turned around to attack Artemis, but as he turned his back, Zeus summoned his lightning bolt and threw it right into Typhon’s back, he stumbled forward and fell into the crack down to Tartarus, he screamed Zeus’ name just as the crack sealed back up and the gods collapsed to the ground of exhaustion, a few days after the fight with Typhon, the gods and the residents of Olympus began rebuilding their homes and cleaning up the destruction that was left behind

## Cast

Joe Manganiello as Hercules

Harrison Ford as Zeus

Silje Torp as Athena

Alicia Vikander as Artemis

Jamie Bell as Hermes

Brett Gelman as Dionysus

Josh Brolin as Typhon