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Syfy updating fairy tales for movie franchise
Putting new twists on Hansel and Gretel, Red Riding Hood
By James Hibberd

Jan 31, 2010, 11:00 PM ET
Syfy is reinventing fairy tales and pop culture characters as part of its Saturday night TV movie franchise.

The network is airing five titles that give a contemporary twist on a classic story, from Hansel & Gretel (years after escaping the witch in the haunted forest, Hansel returns seeking revenge) to Little Red Riding Hood (a descendant of Little Red discovers her family secretly hunts werewolves).

"It's exciting to take a treasured brand and put our own sideways spin on it," said Thomas Vitale, executive vp programming and original movies at Syfy. "By turning familiar timeless stories inside out, we're creating an entertaining new genre for our popular Saturday night movie franchise."

The series is partly inspired by the network's mandate to find projects with broader appeal that began in earnest last year with the network's rebranding from Sci Fi to Syfy.

Syfy's Saturday movies continue to be one of the last bastions of regularly produced made-for-TV movies. Each film is typically an international co-production made with a budget of about $2 million and shot on 35mm film. Syfy works with about 10 indie studios, which also distribute the titles on DVD. Each tends to average about 1.8 million viewers Saturdays during the network's twice-monthly original airings.

Syfy's series of fairy tale titles kick off with "Beauty and the Beast" on Feb. 27.

 

[SazerVisuel]

I'm ashamed to admit this, but while I don't watch much TV anymore, if at all, I'd probably watch these.

 

[AlternativeUlster]

Fuck that, just make a FABLES series.

 

[bathala]

Fuck that, just make a FABLES series.

done
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1349695/

 

[Count Dookkake]

The best contemporary remake of Hansel & Gretel is

Spoiler

Hostel

.

 

[StoOgE]

Syfy announces more shitty exclusive made for TV movies. Now mining the public domain to turn gold into lead.

Fixed the thread title for you.

 

[BertramCooper]

Aren't they pretty much doing this already? This sounds like the same concept as Tin Man and Alice.

Meh, don't really care, in any case. As long as Caprica continues being awesome, Siffy is in my good graces.

 

[Persona7]

I thought Alice was great.


I can;t wait.

 

[AlternativeUlster]

done
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1349695/

What?!?!? And ABC might be showing it after Lost is finished??? Fuckin' A!

 

[jason10mm]

Man, I hope it is not the same production team that did "10th Kingdom", "Alice", and "Tin Man". I dislike their visual style, their casting is spotty, and the weird techno slant they always try to infuse feels forced.

Give it to the BSG crew, those guys understood how sci-fi was supposed to look!

 

[jon bones]

What?!?!? And ABC might be showing it after Lost is finished??? Fuckin' A!

it's supposed to be heavy on the snow white/ wolf romance :/

 

[Unknown Soldier]

The Sci-Fi version of Alice which aired a couple of months ago actually wasn't bad. The effort was actually pretty admirable and the overacting from Kathy Bates sealed the deal. :lol

 

[HatterMadness]

So much hate for SciFi's new name.

 

[BertramCooper]

So much hate for SciFi's new name.

Because it's extremely misguided and totally stupid.

I understand their desire to branch out, but their rebrand was so half-assed. When the name of the channel is still pronounced the same, it doesn't really accomplish anything. Just come up with a new name, for heaven's sake.

 

[Booser]

a descendant of Little Red discovers her family secretly hunts werewolves).

COOL

 

[ChubbyHuggs]

They are making a couple of things now.
They made Stephen King's Nightmares and Dreamscapes and now they plan on remaking "It" and Children of the Corn. Might be worth the watch.

 

[raphier]

Why do I have this gut feeling they're going to make cheap The Hobbit tv-series?

The Hobbits, a drama of hobbit family struggling in the middle of the werewolf-human war.

 

[Vinci]

done
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1349695/

don'tfuckitupdon'tfuckitupdon'tfuckitup

 

[AlternativeUlster]

it's supposed to be heavy on the snow white/ wolf romance :/

Well the comic is pretty heavy in it too........

 

[kturtle0313]

Because it's extremely misguided and totally stupid.

I understand their desire to branch out, but their rebrand was so half-assed. When the name of the channel is still pronounced the same, it doesn't really accomplish anything. Just come up with a new name, for heaven's sake.

They probably did it because people can't spell and they learned that people were searching for sifi, or syfy on google or something.