It features three tales of hercules teenaged years and depicts him joining the prometheus academy. The first story, hercules and the first day of school is pretty much exactly what it says on the tin. It is sung by lillias white, lachanze, roz ryan, cheryl freeman, and vaneese y. Everything we know about the liveaction hercules movie. In hercules and the grim avenger, our hero battles with theseus against a foulsmelling minotaur. Adonis is a reccuring antagonist in the 1998 disney animated series hercules. It is widelyremembered for the movies songs by alan menken, including go the distance and zero to hero. Disneys hercules zero to hero executive producer tad stones producers executive story editors mark mccorkle robert schooley hercules and the first day of school directors tad stones phil weinstein writers mark mccorkle robert schooley hercules and the grim avenger director phil weinstein story editor kevin hopps writer greg weisman hercules. Zero to hero video 1999 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Theres a whols cosmos up there waiting for me with, hey, my name on it. Hercules in order to return home to mount olympus, hercules needs to prove he can move from zero to true hero with pegasus, the flying stallion, and phil a feisty personal trainer. Along the way, hercules must match wits with grecian beauty meg and a comical hothead named hades who, with the help of pain and panic, plans to take over the. The film is a directtovideo followup to 1997 animated feature hercules.
This is a list of films that feature the greek divine hero hercules. In the original movie, josh keaton voiced hercules as a teenager, while tate donovan was the hero as an adult, and roger bart was hercules singing voice in the song go the distance. With tate donovan, french stewart, sandra bernhard, robert costanzo. Hercules is a zero, not a hero srinting fox, jakobe salad, carolina after lit and i spent about two hours cleaning every last bit of the dining hall, we went back to my room. Hercules is the main protagonist of walt disneys 1997 film of the same name. The series, released on august 17, 1999, it is said to be the official sequel to the 1997 film. Four episodes of hercules were reformatted into the movie hercules. Video source zero to hero is a song featured in the film, disneys hercules. The film is loosely based on the legendary hero heracles known in the film by his roman name, hercules, the. The episode hercules and the yearbook serves as the linking narrative, with random clips replaced with the episodes hercules and the first day of school, hercules and the grim avenger and hercules and the. Young hercules struggles to get through school and be accepted without his mythological powers. The gospels even get their own montagedriven song, zero to hero.
Hercules teams up with the grim avenger, a superhero who narrates his. Song zero to hero from hercules soundtrack version artist chorus hercules, lillias white, cheryl freeman, lachanze, roz. And this matters because zero to hero looks, in general, like a movie made on the cheap by whatever studios put in the lowest bid for that weeks project. Zero to hero has never shown up on dvd and it doesnt turn its predecessors longawaited bluray debut into one of disneys 2 movie collections. Jampacked with action, humor and music, these are the missing years of our hero intraining. As hades goes through his usual job of bringing fresh souls in, pain and panic tell him. After the events of disneys hercules 1997, herc reminiscences about his teenage years which he mostly spent at the prometheus academy for gods and men where he was sent during his hero training by his mentor, satyr philoctetes. Tate donovan, james woods, bobcat goldthwait, sandra bernhard, french stewart, kathie lee. The seven year itch 1955 one scene during the zero to hero sequence depicts hercules and pegasus riding through a muselike constellation. In particular, it shows an adolescent hercules s enrollment and the beginning of his adventures at the prometheus academy, a school for gods and mortals, which hercules supposedly attended during the time. This year marks the 19th anniversary of the beloved movie, so well just. This spinoff of disneys hercules 1997 follows hercules many labors during the years he spent training how to be a hero under the tutelage of satyr philoctetes.
Jul 20, 2018 zero to hero chorus hercules lillias white cheryl freeman lachanze roz ryan vaneese thomas tawatha agee. So much for the preliminaries, and now on to the main event. Zero to hero, zips through hercules labors as it teases about his hot new celebrity status. The film briefly gives hercules history after defeating hades for good, in which he marries meg and revisits his teenage years. The episode hercules and the yearbook is the main plot of the video. The 35th disney animated feature film and the eighth animated film produced during the disney renaissance, the film was directed by ron clements and john musker. Hercules was later followed by the directtovideo prequel hercules. It aired on february 10, 1999, featuring characters from disneys aladdin franchise including, aladdin, princess jasmine, jafar and abu.
In hercules, the song zero to hero contains the lyrics s. Zero to hero, which served as the pilot to hercules. May 07, 2012 zero to hero from hercules soundtrack version artist chorus hercules, lillias white, cheryl freeman, lachanze, roz ryan, vaneese thomas, tawatha agee. Incarnations view all 11 versions of hercules on btva. Hercules teams up with the grim avenger, a superhero who narrates his every move and is really theseus eric stoltz, a visiting prince who likes cassandra and who adonis and icarus mutually hate to stop the beast, and finally hercules is. Bless my soul herc was on a roll person of the week in every greek opinion poll what a pro herc could stop a show point him at a monster and youre talking sro im just really curious to what it means. Feb 11, 20 in this filmbyfilm wallow in the depths of disneys directtovideo sequels and spinoffs of their more respectable theatrical animated features, i had initially been compelled to skip right over 1999s hercules.
Song zero to hero from hercules soundtrack version artist chorus hercules, lillias white, cheryl freeman, lachanze, roz ryan, vaneese thomas, tawatha agee. Images of the voice actors who play the voice of minotaur in hercules. But all in all, it is a must have for any fan of hercules. He is the son of greek gods zeus and hera, and the nephew of poseidon and hades. As they do, the muses dress in the constellation blows up, just as marilyn monroes characters dress did.
A liveaction remake of the studios 1997 animated musical hercules is in development with producers joe and anthony russo, a. Tony ail voice animated production by jetlag productions. The olympusset movie was also adapted into a shortlived animated series that. Zero to hero, is a great buy for anyone who enjoyed the tv show, but remember that this is a tv show.
Olympian gods and goddesses, as well as hades and pegasus, often visit him. Hercules and the arabian night is a crossover episode of disney s hercules. Whistle while you work from disneys snow white and the seven dwarfs disney princess singalongs duration. Hercules is a zero, not a hero the other castellan. Hercules goes for the first time to prometheus academy in athens, where he meets the usual collection of sub. This year marks the 19th anniversary of the beloved movie. Zero to hero is a song featured in the film, disneys hercules.
The series, albeit shorter and with altered lyrics towards the end. The fanfavorite animated movie from 1997 will hit the big screen as the latest disney liveaction adaptation. Zero to hero on video for the first time everboasts an allstar cast, including tate donovan and james woods returning as hercules and hades, the roles they made famous in the original animated feature. The original intro was only shown on abc and was altered for reruns and home releases.
Hercules zero to hero megara scene disney princess mr khing. Happily for an extremely specific sense of the word happy reader todd draper had my back, and has been. Jan 20, 2019 hercules zero to hero megara scene disney princess mr khing. Walt disneys hercules 1997 part 17 zero to hero youtube. Memorable quotes and exchanges from movies, tv series and more. Jampacked with action, humor and music, these are the missing years of our herointraining. He was voiced by tate donovan as an adult and josh keaton as a teenager with roger bart doing his singing voice. The song was later used as the theme song in hercules. Tate donovan, french stewart, sandra bernhard, robert costanzo. Hercules a list of 25 titles created 10 months ago childhoods best a list of 37 titles created 14 jun 2017 my ranking of animated directtovideo disney sequels. During the 1950s and 1960s, a series of films featuring hercules were produced in italy. Unlike the televised version, the random clips are replaced with three other episodes in the following order. Watch hercules zero to hero from storyboard to final frame.
With tate donovan, diedrich bader, barbara barrie, jodi benson. Zero to hero vhs, 1999 at the best online prices at ebay. The animated series, a syndicated disney television series focusing on hercules during his time at the prometheus academy. See image of kathie lee gifford, the voice of echidna in hercules. Stylized to be an epitome of male perfection as his name would suggest, with long golden hair, awesomely tanned skin, a buff build, and chiseled features.
He is based on the mythological heracles, most known under the roman spelling hercules. I picked up a vhs copy of this, so there was a fun nostalgia factor here. And finally, in hercules and the visit from zeus, zeus turns himself into a gangly adolescent in order to prove that teendom is a snap. Zero to heroon video for the first time everboasts an allstar cast, including tate donovan and james woods returning as hercules and hades, the roles they made famous in the original animated feature. At least most of the original voice actors reprised their roles for this tv series, and james woods always rocks as hades.
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