Despite Tommy Wirkola taking a step away from the director’s chair in the HANSEL & GRETEL sequel, he still has a heavy hand in the direction the film and its characters are headed as he recently finished the screenplay, which looks to open up a whole new world for the story. In an interview, Wirkola spilled one very tiny teaser about what we might be able to expect from the sequel:
I wrote a script for it that I’m really happy with and the producers really love. And the studio is high on it and they want to shoot it next year. But I just did Dead Snow 2 and I don’t want to be doing sequels for the next few years. Also I just thought it was time to do something a little bit different, but the script is really cool and opens up a new world of Voodoo. So that’s the world where the sequel goes.
HANSEL & GRETEL: WITCH HUNTERS pulled in some solid numbers with $55 million domestically and an estimated $170 million internationally, so it'll be interesting to see how the sequel stacks up to them. Obviously, the big question now is whether or not Gemma Arterton and Jeremy Renner can make room in their busy schedules for a sequel.