Let The Hunt Begin with the First Trailer for ‘HANSEL AND GRETEL: WITCH HUNTERS’

Jeremy Renner was supposed to have quite a year between the massive success of The Avengers, The Bourne Legacy, and Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters.  That plan took a turn for the worse though once the witch killing siblings got pushed back to next year and Legacy didn’t even break $100 mil. domestically on a bloated $125 mil. budget.  Thankfully foreign sales helped make up for the later film, and Paramount is still planning on releasing Tommy Wirkola’s action-packed twist on the popular fairy tale.  Horror fans will have to plan for a busy month next January when the film finally hits theaters.  First you have Texas Chainsaw 3D on January 4.  Then the next week – January 11 – will see the release of Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters as well as Scary Movie 5 (cue eye roll).  Renner and Gemma Arterton star as the twin hunters who utilize a variety of guns and weapons in their line of bloody work.  Wirkola previously made a name for himself with the zany and over-the-top “Nazi-zombie” film Dead Snow.  Judging by what I see in the trailer, I have to admit that I’m fairly excited for the film.  Outside of some shoddy CGI, it looks like a fun flick that takes itself less seriously than I would have originally thought.  Be warned though, I might be in the minority here in terms of my favorable opinion of the trailer.  Check it out for yourself below.