Virginia Madsen has joined the ever-growing cast of Catherine Hardwicke’s medieval thriller “Red Riding Hood” — a dark, dangerous and romantic take on the classic tale from scribe David Leslie Johnson (“Orphan”).
Madsen will play the mother of Amanda Seyfried’s protagonist, a girl who falls in love with an orphaned woodcutter (Shiloh Fernandez) though she’s engaged to marry the son of a blacksmith (Max Irons) with the overarching story centering on the haunting presence of a werewolf in the village they call home.
Also featuring in the cast are the likes of Gary Oldman, who’ll play the werewolf hunter Father Soloman, Julie Christie as Seyfried’s grandmother, Michael Hogan as the mysterious ‘The Reeve’ with Lukas Haas presumably taking up the role of the antagonist werewolf.
The film begins lensing this summer in Vancouver for an April 22th release next year.