Stephen Dorff has joined "War of the Gods"

By Siewaun
Reference: Variety

Stephen Dorff ("Blade," "Public Enemies") has joined Kellan Lutz, 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.

Dorff will star as Stavros, the master thief who joins Theseus on his quest. Henry Cavill plays the heroic Theseus, Kellan Lutz plays Poseidon, lord of the sea, Mickey Rourke plays the ruthless King Hyperion and Freida Pinto plays Phaedra, an oracle priestess.

Hollywood Gang Productions' Gianni Nunnari will produce 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 early April in Montreal. Release date for the movie is set for Nov. 11, 2011.