Up next from Osgood Perkins (The Blackcoat’s Daughter, I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House) is Orion Pictures’ reimagining of a classic Brothers Grimm fairy tale, Gretel and Hansel. Orion is releasing the film on January 31, 2020, and EW shares the first image today.
IT and IT: Chapter Two star Sophia Lillis plays Gretel in the film. EW details the plot: “[Gretel] and her younger brother (Sammy Leakey) leave home during a time of pestilence and famine. On their travels they encounter a kindly huntsman (Charles Babalola) before finding solace in the home of an elderly woman (Alice Krige) whose motives may not be altogether pure.”
Perkins told the site, “It’s awfully faithful to the original story. It’s got really only three principal characters: Hansel, Gretel, and the Witch. We tried to find a way to make it more of a coming of age story. I wanted Gretel to be somewhat older than Hansel, so it didn’t feel like two twelve-year-olds — rather a sixteen-year-old and an eight-year-old.”
Rob Hayes wrote the script. Check out your first look at Lillis as the new Gretel below.
