I don't know what the context was, but there was a link to a possible Herc 3 except I think the mojo went out of the project.Here is an excerpt from Slyvains Chomets opinion on how Herc 2 fared....it was such a mega-disaster that they canned it and created a quickie clip show video from the TV series instead.Which was'nt promoted, and the TV series flopped horribly cause Disney was so disgusted by the poor audience reaction for the movie.
The fact that Disney hired Sylvain Chomet in the first place to go anywhere Near a Herc storyboard is living proof the whole place was going to hell in a hand basket. I've seen "The Triplets of Belleville" and it's about the most polar opposite of "Hercules" in tone, writing and art production imaginable. Getting Sylvain Chomet to work on "Hercules" would be like getting Quentan Tarantino to do a Muppet movie. Although, come to think of it, that would be pretty funny, would'nt it???
heres his take on the experiance...........
Sylvain Chomet........{producer of The Triplets of Belleville,} on why we should'nt hold our breaths for a Herc sequel
"I know from experience that dispirited animators tend to make lifeless films. In the late 90's, I worked at Disney's animation studio in Toronto, developing characters for a "Hercules" sequel. It was the most frustrating and informative period of my career. Everyone had his own office with large windows and views over Lake Ontario. Coming to work in the morning, I felt as if I was walking into a bank. No one saw each other, no fun was had and there was no sense of teamwork.
I was lucky enough to see the original "Hercules" development drawings of Gerald Scarfe, a talented British illustrator. They were inspired. But over time, studio input robbed Mr. Scarfe's characters of their life. What the studio did to them was criminal like adding water to wine.
Once, my team in Canada was sent to Los Angeles to meet the people in charge of our project there. By this time we were on the sixth rewrite of the script, and we had a daylong brainstorming session in which we were locked in a big room with executives and so-called creatives. One executive suggested a rewrite incorporating an idea she had in the car that morning. Heads nodded, notes were scribbled and script No. 7 was born. It was like watching a runaway steam train being driven by a flock of headless chickens.
In a sign of how eager corporations are to have animated characters that can be franchised and spun off, work on the "Hercules" sequel had started before the first "Hercules" movie had been released. As it turns out the film flopped and the plug was pulled on the sequel, but already money equivalent to the whole budget for "Triplets of Belleville" had been spent."