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Gretel & Hansel (also known as Gretel & Hansel: A Grim Fairy Tale) is an upcoming 2020 American dark fantasy horror film based on the German folklore tale Hänsel and Gretel by the Brothers Grimm. The film is directed by Oz Perkins, produced by Fred Berger, Brian Kavanaugh-Jones, and Dan Kagan, and the screenplay is written by Perkins and Rob Hayes. Sophia Lillis and Sam Leakey portray the main characters respectively, alongside Charles Babalola, Jessica De Gouw and Alice Krige. In the film, Gretel and Hansel enter a dark wood in order to find work and food to assist their poor parents. They stumble upon the home of a witch.
It was announced in October 2018 that Lillis would star in Gretel and Hansel, a film adaptation based on the German folklore Hansel and Gretel by the Brothers Grimm, with Perkins directing the film from a screenplay he co-wrote with Hayes. Casting call on the film began from November 2018 to April 2019. Filming on the film started in November 2018 and wrapped in Dublin, Ireland.
The film is scheduled to be released in the United States on January 31, 2020, by Orion Pictures through United Artists Releasing.