First Look: Jeremy Renner & Gemma Arterton in ‘Hansel & Gretel’

Jeremy Renner has been a busy, busy, Bee. ‘MI:4′ is coming out this month he’s in serious talks to take over for Matt Damon in the ‘Bourne Legacy’ and he will also play Hawkeye in the Mega up-coming Marvel hit ‘The Avengers’.

And this is ‘Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters’ an upcoming American action horror comedy film directed byTommy Wirkola. The film will be made in 3-D and is slated for release on March 2, 2012.

It is a continuation to the fairy tale Hansel and Gretel by the Brothers Grimm. Jeremy Renner andGemma Arterton have been cast in the titular roles, while Famke Janssen has been cast as the leader of a coven of evil witches that they seek out to destroy.

PLOT:  Catching up with Hansel (Renner) and Gretel (Arterton) 15 years after the traumatic incident involving a gingerbread house, the siblings have evolved into vengeful bounty hunters dedicated to exterminating witches. Over the years, the siblings became expert hunters, famous for their proficiency at tracking and taking down their prey. Although still recovering from their ordeal, their work is relatively easy as for an unknown reason harmful spells and curses do not work well against them. Now, Mayor of Augsburg recruits them to rid the town and nearby forests of an evil sorceress (Janssen) who is planning to sacrifice many local children at the witches’ gathering during the upcoming ‘Blood Moon’ night in two days time. To make things worse, the duo also has to deal with the brutal Sheriff Berringer (Stormare) who has taken power in Augsburg and conducts a very indiscriminate witch-hunt of his own.

CAST

• Jeremy Renner as Hansel

• Gemma Arterton as Gretel

• Famke Janssen as Muriel

• Peter Stormare as Sheriff Berringer

• Derek Mears as Edward

• Monique Ganderton as the candy house witch

• Ingrid Bolsø Berdal as a witch

• Zoë Bell as a witch

• Pihla Viitala as Mina