Tag: Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters
Peter Stormare in Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters
We reported that cast of the upcoming Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters is getting bigger and it’s time to update the whole thing.
Why? Well, guess what, we just learned that Peter Stormare (Fargo) has joined the cast that already includes Jeremy Renner, Gemma Arterton, Famke Janssen and Ingrid Bolso Berdal.
Tommy Wirkola‘s upcoming project picks up the fairy tale siblings 15 years after their traumatic gingerbread house incident, which provoked them to become witch bounty hunters.
It will be modern technology in an old style – the idea is, they’ve grown up and they hunt witches. It’s a hybrid sort of old-timey feeling, yet there’s pump-action shotguns.
Ingrid Bolso Berdal Joins Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters
Are you ready for another witch? Ok, then, check out the latest casting update!
Norwegian actress, Ingrid Bolso Berdal, has joined the cast of the upcoming Tommy Wirkola‘s project Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters 3D.
Yeah, we already wrote about the whole thing, so you know the movie stars Jeremy Renner, Gemma Arterton and Famke Janssen as the leader of the witches.
So, now, we learned that Berdal will portray one of the witches described as a “superbad killing machine.”
Gemma Arterton in Hansel and Gretel
More casting updates folks!
Lovely Gemma Arterton (recently seen as Tamara Drewe) has been cast as Gretel in Paramount’s Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters.
Arterton will star opposite Jeremy Renner in movie that has already been described as “a dark action movie that picks up with the fairy tale siblings years after the traumatic childhood incident has turned them into bounty hunters”
D.W. Harper is writing with Will Ferrell, Chris Henchy, Adam McKay and Kevin J. Messick producing through their Gary Sanchez Prods. McKay previously explained that:
Noomi Rapace and Jeremy Renner in Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters
The Hurt Locker star and The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo star in one movie? Yes, please!
And, this news comes from Jeremy Renner, who recently gave an interview at the Venice Film Festival and revealed that he and Noomi Rapace will be starring in Tommy Wirkola’s upcoming project Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters!
Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters takes place 15 years after the siblings’ incident involving the gingerbread house. The siblings have evolved into bounty hunters who hunt witches.
Of course, you can already guess that Renner is up for the part of Hansel while Rapace is set to star as Gretel, but here’s what Renner had to say about the upcoming project:
“I liked Dead Snow, and I like seeing that Scandinavian directors have a combination of horror and humor.




