Syfy updating fairy tales for movie franchise: "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.'"
3 comments:
The original programming on the Syfy channel has always been terrible and I doubt these will be better. The way they ruined Ursula K. Leguins A Wizard of Earthsea was unforgivable.
Can't wait that hallmark of Syfy: the state-of-the-art special effects that make "Avatar" look like "Plan 9 from Outer Space."
Never thought of fairy tales as a treasured brand before! Apparently not treasured quite enough.
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