Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way to Remake Little Red Riding Hood
By Krystal Clark
Whenever someone decides to remake one of my favorite childhood stories, I assume it will be geared towards a younger audience. That’s not the case with the upcoming take on the popular tale of Little Red Riding Hood. According to /Film, the writer of last month’s horror flick Orphan has been tapped to adapt the story, but with a Gothic twist.
Screenwriter David Leslie Johnson has been hired by Leonardo DiCaprio‘s production company Appian Way to write a “reimagining” of the classic. Apparently the film has been in development for years, and several people have tried to take Little Red Riding Hood to a darker place. DiCaprio isn’t set to star in the film, but he will be involved on the production side of things. Info on this project is scarce, but here’s a brief description of what is known.
“The story had as its subject an “attractive, well-bred young lady”, a village girl of the country being deceived into giving a wolf she encountered the information he needed to find her grandmother’s house successfully and eat the old woman while at the same time avoiding being noticed by woodcutters working in the nearby forest. Then he proceeded to lay a trap for the Red Riding Hood. The latter ends up eaten by the wolf and there the story ends. The wolf emerges the victor of the encounter and there is no happy ending.”
In my opinion this isn’t really a drastic step in terms of the stories original vibe. When I was a kid Little Red Riding Hood, The Three Little Pigs, and Hansel and Gretel were all scary to me. If you really look at it, they all deal with murder and child abduction. That’s the weird thing about these older tales, in hindsight it’s like reading a script from an episode of Law & Order: SVU.
What do you think about the upcoming Gothic take on Little Red Riding Hood?
Thursday, August 6, 2009 4:55AM
All of the children's fairy tales were told in the 10th century and later to keep kids from running out into the woods and away from your parents protective gaze. I don't know how much a story where the wolf wins would attract an audience, maybe make the wolf a sympathetic character? It's a tough sell, and I'm not very interested in seeing them attempt it
Thursday, August 20, 2009 6:54PM
[...] Hardwicke please stop! I gave you Thirteen, I even thought Lords of Dogtown was decent, but Little Red Riding Hood and 21 Jump Street? Stop the overall madness people. According to Variety, Hardwicke is in [...]
Thursday, February 18, 2010 10:48AM
[...] a Gothic retelling of the classic story “Little Red Riding Hood.” We first reported on its development last August, when Leonardo Dicaprio’s Appian Way decided to take on the project. Producers are starting [...]
Thursday, August 5, 2010 9:29AM
This doesn't seem to be a smart investment for Leonardo at all. I mean it's really a stupid plot, and I like Steve have no interest to go see this and i sure wouldn't allow any of my own children go see this. SO, who would actually go see this kind of movie? I bet not many!!
Thursday, November 11, 2010 11:26PM
Screenwriter David Leslie Johnson has been hired
Info on this project is scarce, but here’s a brief description of what is known.
The story had as its subject an “attractive, well-bred young lady”, a village girl of the country being deceived into giving a wolf she encountered the information he needed to find her grandmother’s house successfully and eat the old woman while at the same time avoiding being noticed by woodcutters working in the nearby forest. Then he proceeded to lay a trap for the Red Riding Hood. The latter ends up eaten by the wolf and there the story ends. The wolf emerges the victor of the encounter and there is no happy ending.”
Where do I begin. How about this david johnson, how about this for a movie, how about you go on vacation and collect your own piss in a large vat, then by the end of vacation you drop a toaster or hair curler in the vat of piss after you deliberately have tipped over the vat letting your collection of piss flow freely below, at least there would be more substance to that plot than what you have already. Way to fuck up another classic, and I swear I thought michael Gay was bad enough fucking up classics already