There’s no shortage of classic stories and characters getting a genre twist next year - Jack The Giant Killer, Mirror Mirror, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters - but this is the one that's started to emerge from the pack as the one to watch. A really impressive maiden trailer certainly helped there (contrast it with Mirror Mirror's if you want to see how these things can go wrong), which showed just what Kristen Stewart can do away from the Twilightfranchise.
The rest of the cast is hardly shabby, though, with Charlize Theron, Ray Winstone, Toby Jones, Bob Hoskins, Eddie Marsan and Ian McShane suggest a depth to the company that serves the film well (it's comfortably one of the best casts of the year). And the screenplay? Co-written by Hossein Amini, as it happens, who penned the script to Drive.
There's real pedigree here, and what we've been allowed to see thus far suggests there's a good film underneath it all. In a year seemingly full of subverted fairy tales on the big screen, this (or Jack The Giant Killer) looks set to be the one that rules them all...
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