'Hansel And Gretel: Witch Hunters' Could Become A TV Series
A Hansel and Gretel Witch Hunters TV series is in early development at Paramount TV, after years of effort to make a movie sequel happen.
Read MoreA Hansel and Gretel Witch Hunters TV series is in early development at Paramount TV, after years of effort to make a movie sequel happen.
Read MoreThe first film wasn't a monster success in the US, but international performance means there will still be a Hansel and Gretel 2. It now has a new director.
Read MoreHansel and Gretel Witch Hunters sequel director Tommy Wirkola has exited the project, citing a desire to "not just do sequels."
Read MoreHollywood is bound to run out of good fairy tales to adapt sooner or later, but of course even that doesn't have to spell the end of the fairy tale reimagining trend. As long as sequels are still a thing, each one of these adaptations can be stretched out into a franchise. And that's precisely…
Read MoreThe fairy tale trend continues in full swing in 2013, with Tommy Wirkola's Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters kicking things off later this month. Jeremy Renner and Gemma Arterton star as the titular siblings, now all grown up and exterminating witches for profit. (Though, as Gretel mordantly notes, "we'd do this shit for free.") Earlier trailers…
Read More2012 saw a couple of high-profile fairy tale releases, but the trend is really just getting started. 2013 has a couple such titles due out in just the first three months, including Tommy Wirkola's Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters in January and Bryan Singer's Jack the Giant Slayer in March. Of course, that's not to say there aren't…
Read MoreThe very title of Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters suggests a very self-consciously silly good time, as does the involvement of director Tommy Wirkola (Dead Snow). So one of the disappointing aspects of the first trailer was how seriously it seemed to take the concept. Though star Jeremy Renner got to toss off a few witticisms, for…
Read MoreLast year Jeremy Renner and Gemma Arterton starred as adult versions of Hansel and Gretel in a film called Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters, directed by Tommy Wirkola (Dead Snow). The movie has been delayed a couple times, but is finally set to open in January, thanks to Jeremy Renner's increased profile post-Avengers and Bourne.…
Read MoreThis can't be good. Besides the still above, we've seen almost nothing official from Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters. It's one of the first completed movies in the fairy tale-inspired wave of Hollywood programming, and the film was set to open on March 2. Rumors of the film being pushed several months started to fly…
Read MoreNow that we've seen the trailers for both of next year's Snow White adaptations, it's time to turn our attentions to another fairy tale that's getting the Hollywood revamp treatment. Starring Jeremy Renner and Gemma Arterton, Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters picks up with the titular siblings years after their traumatic encounter with a cannibalistic…
Read More[No photo] Jeremy Renner and Gemma Arterton have started work on Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters, directed by Tommy Wirkola (Dead Snow). The first spy pics are already out, and the show the two actors suited up to kill some witches. Bigger images are below. The film is shooting in Germany, and Famke Janssen, Peter…
Read MoreIn April of last year, Dead Snow director Tommy Wirkola dropped a weird bomb: his follow-up film would be Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters, which catches up with Hansel and Gretel fifteen years after a witch tried to turn them into dinner. We haven't heard much about the film since screenwriter Dante Harper was hired…
Read MoreAssuming that the majority of this information is valid, there are going to be about two dozen worth of news stories crammed in one here, so brace yourselves. According to a leaked email exposing Paramount's upcoming movie slate, they're going to be pretty busy over the next few years, working on a slew of potentially…
Read MoreWriter / director Tommy Wirkola got on the map with Dead Snow, his zombie Nazi movie that hit a few festivals over the last year. Now he's looking to follow that up with a film that catches up with Hansel and Gretel fifteen years after a witch tried to turn them into dinner. We heard…
Read MoreA good part of the hype surrounding Tommy Wirkola's Dead Snow predates any screenings of the film, or even trailers or posters, and springs from the film's central premise alone: Nazi Zombies. That basic setup is all it took to get the film coverage across the whole geekosphere. I guess Wirkola is something of a…
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