Famke Janssen (X-Men) has been cast as the leader of the witches in Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters.
Janssen will star opposite Gemma Arterton (The Disappearance of Alice Creed) and Jeremy Renner (The Town) in Paramount Pictures’ dark action-thriller.
Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters follows the siblings from the famous fairy tale as adult bounty hunters bent on avenging the incident that traumatized them as children.
Tommy Wirkola (Dead Snow) is attached to direct, with production scheduled to commence on March 7 in Berlin, Germany.
