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4. Hansel And Gretel: Witch Hunters 2 Is Probably Going To Happen At Some Point

Hansel And Gretel Jeremy Renner 1 The first Hansel And Gretel film wasn't exactly a masterpiece of film. In fact, it was met with some generally mediocre reviews, which makes the likeliness of the sequel rather baffling. But hey, if the Transformers series has taught us anything, it's that, no matter badly every film in a series is critically panned - if it makes money, they'll keep getting made. Witch Hunters 2 will never be on the scale of that gargantuan franchise, but Tommy Wirkola - writer and director of the first film seems optimistic that the film will go head. Speaking to Shock Till You Drop, Wirkola says that the film is ready to go, it's just waiting on Jeremy Renner to become available.

I've written the script for it. I've given it to Paramount and it's up to them now. But I don't know what's going to happen. Jeremy is so busy these days, I don't know how they're going to juggle all of that, but it's up to

We'll see. Hopefully, I'll get to do another film first. They really liked the script I gave them. The first film was a learning curve for me working in the studio system and the script I wrote for the original was so different. We ended up taking a lot out and altering stuff that first time. I'm smarter now. I tried taking what I learned and still delivered a sequel script that's an R-rated action film.
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