While the concept for Catherine Hardwicke’s “The Girl With The Red Riding Hood,” a reinvention of the familiar fairytale, told as a Gothic set mystery with the sex and scares turned up a notch, sounds interesting, its only with the last cast additions that we’re starting to get truly excited.
Deadline Hollywood reports that Gary Oldman, Julie Christie & Max Irons have joined Amanda Seyfried and Shiloh Fernandez in the film that will shoot this summer in Vancouver. The film was written by David Leslie Johnson (“Orphan”) and has budgeted a little bit north of the $37 million Hardwicke received for “Twilight.”
Heat Vision Blog spills some more details on who’s who, reporting that Fernandez will play an orphaned woodcutter who becomes the object of Seyfriend’s affection, much to the dismay or her family. Christie will play the kindly grandmother who knits with a pair of silver needles, Oldman will play Father Solomon, the Witchfinder General whose job it is to hunt down and kill the werewolf. Sweet.