There may be a story in here somewhere but we’ll never know because Tommy Wirkola doesn’t know how to write a screenplay. He gives blocks and blocks of descriptions, painstakingly detailing every single punch, kick, strike, slam in every single fight in the script. Listen, if it takes the reader more than two minutes to read a page, the screenwriter doesn’t know what he’s doing.
A possible fatal flaw in its concept though is this film will be rated a hard R. Not sure that’s the rating you want when dealing with Hansel and Gretel. The pages drip with gruesome violence and profanity.
We open with Hansel and Gretel trapped in the candy house. They escape the evil witch by pushing her in an oven and closing the door.
We then cut to fifteen years later.
Basically, Hansel and Gretel look to eradicate the world of witches. Along the way though, they come to realize that their mother was a witch (although a pure, white witch that used her powers to help others). The reasoning for this is, Hansel hates all witches with a fury. He falls for Mina though who turns out to be a witch. He’s totally conflicted because he's now in love with someone that he's sworn to kill. However, none of this really matters since Mina is violently killed in the last third of the script. Again, another sign that Wirkola is a terrible writer.
Having said all that, I would look to develop this idea. A total page-one rewrite is called for though but there is a movie here. You’d just have to hire a real writer to solve the problems.
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