14 DAY TRIAL // The director of the first “Twilight” film, Catherine Hardwicke, is back with another story about an impossible love and werewolves, though, hopefully, it will be different from the first one. The first trailer for “Red Riding Hood” is out.
As much as one may try to not think of Hardwicke as of “the director of Twilight,” it’s nearly impossible to do so, especially when the trailer for her upcoming movie seems so similar to her work on the popular vampire sage.
Even the story is similar, voices are pointing out in the blogosphere, with “Red Riding Hood” using the legendary tale only as a starting point. Hopefully, the love triangle hinted at in the trailer won’t be the main plot.
“Catherine Hardwicke is back and so are those aerial shots from ‘Twilight.’ Her new film, ‘Red Riding Hood,’ which stars Amanda Seyfried, Lukas Haas and Gary Oldman, seems to be set in an medieval village (though indeterminate time and place might be more accurate),” Wall Street Journal’s SpeakEasy says.
“From the trailer, which was released yesterday, and IMDb description we can gather that a young woman falls in love with someone she’s not supposed to. Meanwhile, a werewolf torments the village. Cue dramatic music!,” the same e-zine says of the plot.
Indeed, the official synopsis says Valerie (Seyfried) is in love with the “brooding outsider” Peter (Shiloh Fernandez) and would do anything to be with him.
Her parents, though, have different plans for her and have already arranged her marriage to Henry, played by the former-model son of Jeremy Irons, Max Irons.
While this is going on, a bloody wolf breaks the long-standing truce by killing people of the village again. Until now, they had been protected from this by a monthly animal sacrifice.
To make things more interesting, the wolf takes human form by day, which basically means it could be anyone of the village people. As it happens, Valerie suspects who he is but she won’t say.
The film also stars Gary Oldman, Lukas Haas, Virginia Madsen, Billy Burke and Julie Christie, and, useless to say, has very little in common with the story we were being read as kids before falling asleep and too much with “Twilight,” for which reason reception of the trailer has been lukewarm at best.
Below is the first official trailer for “Red Riding Hood,” enjoy. The film comes out on March 11, 2011.