Hansel falls from a witch's broomstick and is lost in the forest. She attacks Gretel, who is rescued by Ben, a local teenager and avid fan of theirs who plans to become a witch hunter himself Jackson is slain in the fight by Muriel after attempting to assist Gretel. The grand dark witch, Muriel, attacks the town with her army and abducts the 12th child. The mayor assigns Jackson, a local resident and tracker, to assist them in navigating the forest but they wait until morning before setting out. Hansel and Gretel capture the horned witch and discover that the witches are preparing for the coming Blood Moon, where they plan to sacrifice twelve children to gain immunity to fire, their greatest weakness. Berringer hires trackers for the same mission, hoping to disgrace the mayor and cementing his power. Mayor Englemann has hired the siblings to rescue the town's missing children, who are presumed abducted by witches.

Now adults, Hansel and Gretel arrive in the town of Augsburg and prevent Sheriff Berringer from executing the beautiful young woman Mina for witchcraft. The pair are somehow immune to spells and curses, but the incident in the gingerbread house has left Hansel with a magic-induced form of diabetes and needs a shot of insulin every few hours or he will die. Over the next fifteen years, Hansel and Gretel become famed witch hunters, slaying hundreds of them.

The siblings outsmart her, incinerating her in the oven.

She forces Hansel to continuously eat sweets to fatten him up and enslaves Gretel. Despite receiving generally negative reviews from critics, particularly for what they saw as its weak script and gratuitous violence, the film was a box-office hit, grossing $226 million worldwide against a production budget of $50 million.Īs in the classic fairy-tale, Hansel and Gretel are abandoned by their father in a forest, and they enter a gingerbread house and are captured by a cannibalistic witch. Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters was theatrically released in the United States on January 25, 2013. Originally scheduled for release in March 2012, the film was delayed to allow additional time to shoot a post-credits scene with Renner. Principal photography began in March 2011, taking place at Babelsberg Studio in Germany. Renner was cast as Hansel in September 2010 whilst the role of Gretel was planned for Noomi Rapace before Arterton's casting in January 2011. In 2010, after being approached by Gary Sanchez Productions, Wirkola pitched the film to Paramount Pictures. The film also stars Famke Janssen and Peter Stormare as the supporting cast. The film is written and directed by Tommy Wirkola. Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters is a 2013 American fantasy film that stars Jeremy Renner and Gemma Arterton as the siblings from the fairy tale ' Hansel and Gretel' who are now grown up and work together to exterminate witches for hire.

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