Leonardo DiCaprio’s production company Appian Way is developing a Gothic retelling of Little Red Riding Hood with screenwriter David Leslie Johnson. Variety reports that the Warner Bros.-based Appian Way is developing the project internally, but there are no signs that DiCaprio will star. Appian Way also worked with Johnson on current horror release Orphan.
The classic tale, made famous by the Brothers Grimm in the 19th century, is about a wolf who disguises himself to trick a girl delivering food to her grandmother.
I’m trying to decide how much this is going to creep me out. Hmm…
I would pay money to see Daokta Fanning being mauled to death by a fanged forest beast, yes.
Yah, me too,
GIV MEY IT NOW
Why do we need this as a movie? And further more, do we really need Wendy Mitchell to explain the story of Little Red Riding Hood at the end of the piece? Come on, if you don’t know the story by now, you might as well give up.
I wonder which version they will tell; Grimms or Perrault. Perrault’s version was about being raped in 17th Century France by a man that at first seemed charming but then turned into a wolf before Red could save herself.
Grimms just made it ‘safer’ for children. Going on the fact it is a ‘gothic retelling’ I think it’ll be dark obviously. Like a full on horror story. They’ll give Red a background, give the social fear of the wolf a background etc – set the scene. It could be really really really good, it could also be a massive waste of time.
How can this be a new project for DiCaprio and WB when Disney has been developing their almost identical gothic retelling of the RED riding HOOD story for the past 9 years? I tell ya…shady Hollywood.
*Keeks* Red Riding Hood has been reinvented a billion times both dark retellings and simplistic, good natured ones.
The Company of Wolves (1979) is a really good version, so why prevent further retellings?