Lots of stars, B-movie charm, hefty 3D effects and an ending that expressly paved the way for a sequel: Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters had everything to start a new franchise. But despite these attributes and despite the fact that the box office success was outstanding, it never went further. Today you can catch the hardcore fantasy action Hansel & Gretel starring Marvel star Jeremy Renner on TV.
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What is Hansel & Gretel about?
The Grimm fairy tale Hansel and Gretel is famous, every child knows it. The film tells a continuation of the story with revenge impact. The siblings Hansel (Jeremy Renner) and Gretel (Gemma Arterton) survived imprisonment as children by the wicked witch. As traumatized adults, they use their experience for a lucrative business in the Middle Ages: witch hunts.
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Hansel & Gretel offers entertaining brutality in fairyland
Genre specialist Tommy Wirkola pulls out all the stops in the film adaptation of this thoroughly original idea and doesn’t really stick to historical correctness. For example, Hansel and Gretel go on a witch hunt with rattling, home-made machine gun forerunners.
The director stages the many witch kills extremely explicitly. Bloody body shreds keep flying straight into the camera, after all the film was released in 3D and it takes full advantage of the format. With a running time of 88 minutes, the strip is also on the move, the wild genre mix hardly takes any idle time.
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Continuation? The surprise success brought nothing to Hansel & Gretel
With these qualities, Hansel and Gretel had a real surprise success. The fun only cost 50 million US dollars. There was a strong entry by $226 million across from. The last scene of the film already indicates the many sequel possibilities: A team of witch hunters has formed.
In 2014, a year after the release of the first part, the plans for part 2 were officially announced: the entire team should return. But the film is now 10 years old and we still haven’t seen a sequel. What happened? Half a year after Part 2 was announced, Tommy Wirkola left as director. Bruno Aveillan came as a replacement. But after that the plans fell asleep. Perhaps Jeremy Renner was too busy for another franchise due to his MCU commitment.
The last twitches went towards one series, which was supposed to come in place of the movie. That was in 2015 and since then silence has spread around the sequel. It is now very unlikely that part 2 of the witch hunter adventure will come.
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