OK now that Hollywood is going through fairytale's from the Brothers Grimm and the such we now have a continuation of Hansel and Gretel. It gets better. They are now witch hunters. Yep hunting witches in leather and brandishing some cool looking witch killing guns. It stars The Avengers Jeremy Renner and Clash of the Titans Gemma Arterton. EW has an interview up with Arterton which is sampled here.
Yes, it continues it. You see a series of flashbacks with their experience of killing that first witch, which is brilliant. I remember being on set for the final few days of that. The candy house, and the witches are really repulsive and quite frightening. The makeup is out of this world. It's this bone-chilling scene. Very dark. The girl who plays my character is brilliant, with the horrified expression she has...This one in particular is about abandonment and being lost and parents leaving you. The heart of it is that these kids grow up to be bloodthirsty witch hunters. It's a bit tongue-in-cheek, really. What would Hansel and Gretel be in 15 years time?
Though it's comedic, deep down it's about abused kids becoming kind of hyper-responsible? But it's also very, very dark, and bloodthirsty and there's a lot of cursing. It's kind of got a Quentin Tarantino feel, really.
Gretel is much more in tune with her spiritual side. Hansel is a typical action hero, cheeky, funny, a womanizer. She's much more of a thinker, intense, internal and bit more open-minded than he is.
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