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SyFy Preps Hansel & Gretel, Red Riding With a Twist
Source:The Hollywood Reporter
February 1, 2010
Syfy is reinventing fairy tales as part of its Saturday night TV movie franchise that will give a contemporary twist on a classic stories.
For example, Hansel & Gretel will take place years after escaping the witch in the haunted forest, with Hansel returning to seek revenge. In Little Red Riding Hood, a descendant of Little Red discovers her family secretly hunts werewolves. Fairly radical, huh?
"It's exciting to take a treasured brand and put our own sideways spin on it," said Thomas Vitale, executive vp programming and original movies at Syfy. "By turning familiar timeless stories inside out, we're creating an entertaining new genre for our popular Saturday night movie franchise."
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Syfy's Saturday movies continue to be one of the last bastions of regularly produced made-for-TV movies. Each film is typically an international co-production made with a budget of about $2 million and shot on 35mm film. Syfy works with about 10 indie studios, which also distribute the titles on DVD. Each tends to average about 1.8 million viewers Saturdays during the network's twice-monthly original airings.
Beauty and the Beast kicks the five movies off on February 27.
For example, Hansel & Gretel will take place years after escaping the witch in the haunted forest, with Hansel returning to seek revenge. In Little Red Riding Hood, a descendant of Little Red discovers her family secretly hunts werewolves. Fairly radical, huh?
"It's exciting to take a treasured brand and put our own sideways spin on it," said Thomas Vitale, executive vp programming and original movies at Syfy. "By turning familiar timeless stories inside out, we're creating an entertaining new genre for our popular Saturday night movie franchise."
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Syfy's Saturday movies continue to be one of the last bastions of regularly produced made-for-TV movies. Each film is typically an international co-production made with a budget of about $2 million and shot on 35mm film. Syfy works with about 10 indie studios, which also distribute the titles on DVD. Each tends to average about 1.8 million viewers Saturdays during the network's twice-monthly original airings.
Beauty and the Beast kicks the five movies off on February 27.
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Posted by: James on February 1, 2010 at 08:20:26
Sounds sweet also sounds like they are doing to these stories what zenescope comics did when they started bring out there comics based on Grimm Fairy Tales i can't wait to see them hope they do alice and more from Grimm Fairy Tales
i have read all of zenescope books i have a collection of all there works
Posted by: SapGoblin on February 1, 2010 at 08:22:40
hmmm...sounds like a good theme to take on as opposed to their anaconda 3s & earthquake 12.0s.
I'll check'em out!
Posted by: Space on February 1, 2010 at 08:47:16
Couldn't agree more SapGoblin.
I can't stand all the weather/apocalypse movies. The reptile ones are also getting annoying. There's a couple of decent ones, but those are few and far between.
I wish they could deliver another movie like Dog Soldiers. I loved that one.
Posted by: dude on February 1, 2010 at 10:09:31
Great. Now they're going to butcher more fairy tales. As if "Tin-Man" and "Alice" weren't enough, now these two classic stories have to be rendered damn near unrecognizable as well? I'll pass.
Posted by: Shaddoe on February 1, 2010 at 13:09:23
I happen to think what they did with Tin Man and Alice was rather good.
So long as SyFy stays away fromdoing more rubbish like snake films and weather films, I'm all for it.
Posted by: Sean on February 1, 2010 at 14:44:48
I'm for it too, but they've gotta come up with some snappy titles for these flicks. Where's the guy who came up with "Mansquito"? Now THAT'S a title!
Posted by: The Creature from Uranus on February 1, 2010 at 17:41:25
Wow talk about who cares. I feel sorry for anyone that actually watches anything on the SyFY channel. Terrible movies edited for content with a ton of commercials. Yeah that rocks.
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