The LA Times has an update on the Warner Brothers movie based on Little Red Riding Hood. Evidently there is a new version of the script from the production company owned by Leonardo DiCaprio, and Amanda Seyfried is being considered for the lead. Courting “Twilight” fans, the film will give a dark Gothic twist to the story first put into print by Charles Perrault. In that version, the girl never makes it out of the belly of the wolf. I’m curious to see how David Johnson, who also wrote the screenplay for Orphan, will adapt the story, especially since there is not much to go on in the Grimms’ version, which is quite short. But this is our cultural story about innocence and seduction, and the brevity of the folktale did not stop Angela Carter from creating a Gothic romance about a girl, a wolf, and an encounter in the woods.

Steven Zeitchick, the LA Times reporter, tells us, tongue in cheek: The biggest thing working against the Warner Bros. movie may be that that it doesn’t derive from Stephenie Meyer’s global bestsellers but from the work of a couple of German academics circa the early 19th century. But when it comes to finding the next “Twilight,” these may be mere details.

 http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/movies/2…

And here’s a review of The Path, a new video game based on the story of Little Red Riding Hood, with six girls who have to navigate the woods. Thanks to Eugene Kim for the alert.

 http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles…