![]() It was announced that Bruno Aveillan would be making his feature film debut with the sequel, since Wirkola stepped down to focus on some other of his indie projects. Hansel and Gretel 2 Crew: Who Can Be Behind It? However, now that Renner is done with the ‘Avengers’ franchise for now, at least until work begins on the ‘ Hawkeye’ series for Disney+, it would seem like the right time for the sequel to pick up, even if Renner’s involvement majorly stays dependent on Wirkola returning to direct, which the director refused. Since the first film ended with the duo joining hands with the teenager Ben (who would be all grown up now) and Edward the troll, we can also expect Thomas Mann and Derek Mears to reprise their roles from the first film. Hansel and Gretel 2 Cast: Who Can Be In It?īoth Jeremy Renner and Gemma Arterton playing the titular duo were vastly interested in returning for the already announced sequel, especially since making the first one was invariably a hoot for the entire team, more so for Renner, stating that it was “a lot of fun doing the movie”. That being said, I also understand why Paramount was once interested in having the sequel go the PG-13 way, even though I do not agree with it, especially since half the first film’s cult reputation is based on how the first film managed to make stabbings, dismembering and straight up slashing and beheading look like a lot of fun. I would certainly expect a potential sequel to delve deeper into that: witchcraft, Sabbaths, rituals, rites and the likes. ![]() I wouldn’t call it a homerun when it came to horror fantasies, but we have to remember “entertaining” as the key word here. Think different kinds of witchcraft.” Other than that, the first film dealt with fabled-gothic-horror in a way that made it really, really fun to watch. Director Tommy Wirkola even penned a script for the sequel that had some “pretty insane” ideas for the second film, with McKay also stating that “this could be one of those instances where the sequel does go further than the first one. But the truth is that if there is a ripe time for producing a sequel to the cult film, it is now, lest the property be deemed too old to reprise and be stuffed into the black box of potential sequels that never got made.Īs for the script, there were multiple directions that the makers thought it could take especially since the universe in which the film operated was established well in the first film, even if you didn’t like it. So, fingers crossed everyone will come back, including Renner and Arterton.” What happened then? Perhaps it got lost in the heaps of sequels and prospective scripts to be produced by Paramount, perhaps something else. The makers and the cast members of the film were all very excited reportedly to be back, with one of the producers, Adam McKay saying, “everyone feels like as good as the first one is, we can really jack it up a level with the second one. Bottom line: in a world with five Transformers films, one tiny ‘Hansel and Gretel’ sequel wouldn’t hurt.Īnd so it was there, on the charts, ready for a 2016 release. Yes, the plot is pretty thin on this one, but the brutal fight scenes are well done, even if not tastefully so. Of course, the duo are able to escape from there by incinerating the witch, but turns out that there are a whole lot of other witches that need banishment, and the film banks upon that twist to deliver a bloody, gory, full of swears film about how the sibling duo grow up to become fabled witch hunters. The first film continues the popular German folklore of the sibling pair as their father abandons them in a forest and the two are captured by a cannibalistic witch in her hut made out of candy. Hansel and Gretel 2 Plot: What Can It Be About? Read on to find out everything we know about the rumored sequel to this film. ![]() Maybe a TV series, maybe a direct sequel. ‘Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters’ was definitely getting a sequel back in the day, but the reason we are back to discussing this is that talks just sprung up again. Considering everything, the talks of a sequel to this film have been highly variable, especially in terms of their frequency. I understand the intention, and lowered expectations do help if you truly want to just sit back and watch about heads and limbs flying as this sibling pair spell nightmare for the witches that haunted them in their childhood. As for my consensus, I already am somewhere in the middle. ![]() However, when you look at it now, discussing the prospects of a sequel to a cult movie that everybody liked or at least enjoyed in retrospect seems much more practical than that of a movie that earned a respectable amount of bucks but was universally discarded by critics as a “bloody mess”, quite literally. I am sure little of what I just stated would matter back then to the makers, especially after the movie made a good amount of money at the ticket windows.
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