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Published On: Tue, Feb 8th, 2011

Famke Janssen joins Jeremey Renner as ‘head witch’ in ‘Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters’

Deadline reports that X-Men star, Famke Janssen has been cast in the film Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters at Paramount Pictures.

“Big day for casting female fairy tale villains. Famke Janssen will play the leader of the witches in the Tommy Wirkola-directed Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters at Paramount Pictures. She joins Jeremy Renner and Gemma Arterton as the title characters who, 15 years after their narrow fairy tale escape from the gingerbread house, become specialized bounty-hunters looking to take down the witches that almost killed them. Janssen takes the job the same day that Julia Roberts closed to play the Evil Queen in Relativity Media’s The Brothers Grimm: Snow White. Gary Sanchez is producing the witch project. Janssen just wrapped her scripting/directing…”

Full story: http://www.deadline.com/2011/02/famke-janssen-bewitches-hansel-gretel/

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