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" Rufus Sewell has been cast in Hercules. The Parade&amp;#039;s End actor will star as Autolycus alongside Dwayne Johnson and Aksel Hennie in the Brett Ratner-directed movie, reports Deadline.   MGM and Paramount Pictures&amp;#039; action adventure will be based on the two Hercules series The Thracian Wars and The Knives of Kush from Radical Publishing. The film centres around the legendary strongman, who has become a jaded mercenary in order to find solace the only way he knows how - by fighting. He and his six companions begin to suspect the motives of their vicious employer Cotys, the King of Thrace. The film is expected to jettison much of the mythological elements of Hercules&amp;#039;s story for a more grounded approach to the legend. Autolycus was portrayed as a comic thief by Bruce Campbell in Xena: Warrior Princess and Hercules: The Legendary Journeys. Hercules will arrive in cinemas on August 8, 2014. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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