Kellan Lutz is Poseidon in "War of the Gods"

By Siewaun
Reference: Variety

Kellan Lutz ("Twilight," "Nightmare on Elm Street") has signed on to join Henry Cavill, Mickey Rourke and Freida Pinto in Relativity Media's Greek mythology war epic "War of the Gods."

Tarsem Singh ("The Cell," "The Fall") will direct from script by Jason Keller, which is about a young warrior Theseus who leads his men into battle with the immortal Greek gods to defeat evil elder gods of the Titans in order to save mankind.

Lutz will be starring as Poseidon, lord of the sea, Henry Cavill ("The Tudors," "Tristan & Isolde") plays the heroic Theseus, Mickey Rourke "The Wrestler" plays the ruthless King Hyperion and Freida Pinto "Slumdog Millionaire" plays Phaedra, an oracle priestess.

Hollywood Gang Productions' Gianni Nunnari will produce the feature alongside Atmosphere Entertainment's Mark Canton and Relativity's Ryan Kavanaugh. Executive producing are Relativity's Tucker Tooley and Hollywood Gangs'Craig Flores. Universal will handle distribution.

Shooting is scheduled to begin in April.