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Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters (2012)

  • Cast Highlights:
  • Jeremy Renner
  • Famke Janssen
  • Peter Stormare
  • Ingrid Bolsø Berdal
  • Monique Ganderton
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    Character: Gretel
    Production Status: Post-Production
    Release Date: March 2, 2012
    Director: Tommy Wirkola
    Writers: D.W. Harper (screenplay), Tommy
    Wirkola (screenplay)
    Genre: Action | Comedy | Horror
    MPAA Rating: n/a

    Plot Outline:
    In the children's book Hansel and Gretel are a young brother and sister threatened by a cannibalistic witch living deep in the forest in a house made of gingerbread and she tries to kill them and cook them. However, they manage to save their lives by outwitting her.

    The film is set 15 years after the siblings killed the witch who kidnapped them. Hansel and Gretel have now evolved into bounty hunters who pursue witches.

    Gemma's Role:
    Gemma Arterton plays Gretel.

    Arterton said: "I can't say too much about it but it's an action movie. It's kind of like Tarantino-style Hansel and Gretel. And it's very violent. I'm playing the heroine for once - not the sidekick!"

    So she'll be a gun-toting Gretel? "I won't have a gun. But I might have a crossbow."

    "For the role as Gretel (grown-up), I wore the coolest costume yet, I got to wear skin-tight brown leather trousers and a forest-green corset, which is pretty much my style, very Rick Owens."

    Trivia: Diane Kruger, Eva Green and Noomi Rapace were considered to play Gretel, but Gemma Arterton eventually got cast.

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