After transforming the live-action Aladdin into a billion-dollar box office success, Guy Ritchie is returning to Disney to direct their live-action adaptation of Hercules.

The Gentleman filmmaker will be overseeing the movie with Avengers: Endgame directors Joe & Anthony Russo producing under their production company AGBO (via Deadline). Disney is also looking for writers following Dave Callaham (Wonder Woman 1984 and Shang-Chi), penning the first draft.

Ritchie has recently been shooting a Jake Gyllenhaal-led untitled action-thriller that STX sold to MGM and Amazon. Additionally, the Brit wrote, directed and exec-produced Operation Fortune: Ruse de guerre, starring Jason Statham.

As for the Russo brothers, they've got a busy slate as they've been announced to produce an animated adaptation of Superfudge, based on one of Judy Blume's best-selling 1980's children's books.

Meanwhile, the Marvel duo are currently filming Extraction 2, the Chris Hemsworth-led sequel to the Netflix action flick. Plus, the release of Amazon multi-series Citadel, with The Warriors, Exit West, The Bluff, Quantum and Woody and Past Midnight are all under development.

Sticking with the streaming service, the next project we'll see the duo directed is the highly-anticipated The Gray Man, starring Ryan Gosling and Chris Evans.

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