Catherine Hardwicke’s new take on Red Riding Hood looks prettily wild, but it doesn’t look bad, thanks to the performance of Oldman, Haas, and Seyfried. This new bunch of high resolution stills should turns out the heat for you.
Red Riding Hood is an upcoming American horror film directed by Catherine Hardwicke, produced by Leonardo DiCaprio, from a screenplay by David Leslie Johnson, the writer of Orphan. It is very loosely based on the folk tale Little Red Riding Hood collected by both Charles Perraultunder the name “Le Petit Chaperon Rouge” (Little Red Riding Hood) and several decades later by the Brothers Grimm as “Rotkäppchen” (Redcap). The film also draws inspiration from Bruno Bettelheim‘s book Uses of Enchantment, in which he analyzes fairy tales in terms of Freudianpsychology.
The film is set in the medieval village of Daggerhorn, where a young woman named Valerie (Amanda Seyfried) plans to run away with her boyfriend, a brooding outsider named Peter (Shiloh Fernandez), in order to avoid marriage with Henry Lazar (Max Irons), with whom her parents have arranged to marry, so that they can repay their debts to Henry’s wealthy father. Their plan to run off with each other is forestalled when Valerie’s older sister is found slaughtered by the mysterious werewolf that has been terrorizing their village for years. The people of Daggerhorn have maintained an uneasy truce with the beast, offering the creature a monthly animal sacrifice. But under a blood-red moon, the werewolf has upped the stakes by taking a human life. Hungry for revenge, the people summon a famed Witchfinder General, Father Solomon (Gary Oldman), to help them track down and kill the beast. But Solomon’s arrival brings unintended consequences, as he warns that the werewolf, who takes human form by day, could be any one of them. As the death toll rises with each moon and panic grips the town, Valerie discovers she has a unique connection to the beast – one that inexorably draws them together, making her both suspect and bait.
Red Riding Hood will be in theaters March 11th.
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