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Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters

11/12/09 - Writer Dante Harper has been hired to sprinkle a few more bread crumbs on the script for Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters, according to The Hollywood Reporter.  Director Tommy Wirkola is helming the project for Gary Sanchez Prods. and Paramount.  The Norwegian pitched and plotted out the story line, which picks up the fairy-tale siblings 15 years after their traumatic gingerbread house incident, which provoked them to become witch bounty hunters.  Sanchez execs Kevin Messick, Adam McKay, Will Ferrell and Chris Henchy are producing the horror-action comedy, which is pitched as having a gory-but-funny "Shaun of the Dead" vibe.

6/23/09 - Director Tommy Wirkola tells ShockTillYouDrop that he's put a Buffy spin his new film Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters.  "It's an action-adventure horror movie that finds Hansel and Gretel 15 years, and they've grown up to become merciless witch hunters," Wirkola said. "Blood and gore and action, all the stuff that I love. I'm working on the first draft now so it's a little ways off, but it's going to be a lot of fun. It's definitely an R-rated movie, the first draft has a lot of blood and guts. First and foremost, it's an action movie, I think, with horror elements. And of course some dark humor as well. But the action and horror are the most import feelings I want."

4/30/09 - Tommy Wirkola, the Norwegian director of the Nazi-zombie movie Dead Snow, is developing Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters, exploring how things played out for the poor siblings 15 years after that whole gingerbread house incident, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

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