Yes, the powers that be are starting to "titillate" us with Jeremy Renner's, who I just reviewed in the Bourne Legacy, new movie. A retelling of a classic fairy tale involving a witch, two little children and a cottage in the woods made of gingerbread. But now apparently, the siblings are all grown up and well....bad ass!
Oh, how I would have loved to be a fly on the wall when they were trying to pitch playing a little boy who gets stuck in an oven to all the big tough action stars in Hollywood.
Gretal is played by Gemma Arterton, whose last action flick she played a pretty "bad ass" princess...
The English actress first was a "Bond Girl"....
She plays Strawberry Fields, an ill prepared MI6agent that is sent to retrieve Bond form Bolivia and get him back on a plane. That doesn't happen and she dies, painted in tar.
I saw one of Arterton's films up at the film festival in Telluride, a few years ago....
and reviewed it HERE.
Watching the trailer for Hansel and Gretal, I was amazed at how close it looked at some other attempt to "mash up" a fairytale with a hard core action flick. My thoughts went to....
Look at Beckinsale's get up on the poster and then look back at the garb Arterton is wearing in the trailer. Apparently tight black pants, high heeled boots and leather works well in fighting evil.
There are a few other Steampunk, that Victorian era, steam powered inspired alter universe, movies similar to Hansel and Gretal....
And the funny thing is, none of them did that well? How will Hansel and Gretal be different? Well, apparently, according to COLLIDER.COM, they created an R version. More gore and blood the better and the funnier, so Hansel and Gretal will be a "gore fest".......yeah. Guess that is one way to get the young crowd in the theater, could it be a good story as well, I have my doubts.
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