In a new twist to its Saturday night movie lineup, the Syfy Channel announced on Monday, February 1 that it’s re-imagining classic fairy tales and pop culture characters. The new line-up will begin on February 27 at 9pm ET with the premiere of Disney’s ‘Beauty and the Beast.’
In order to celebrate Valentine’s Day, Estella Warren and Rhett Gilles are starring in the title roles of ‘Beauty and the Beast.’ It follows Beauty, a young woman who has a gift of healing, as she tries to help a deformed Prince regain his throne. Together, the two try to defeat the nobleman who wants to become king and destroy a power-hungry witch. The movie was directed by David Lister and written by Gavin Scott.
Syfy’s Executive Vice President for Programming and Original Movies, Thomas Vitale, said that by changing these classic stories, the network is “…creating an entertaining new genre for our popular Saturday night movie franchise, which has become the television destination for fans of action-packed independent sci-fi, horror and fantasy films.”
Vitale added that other movies that are in a preliminary development state include ‘Red,’ which focuses on a young woman who is the descendant of the real Little Red Riding Hood. She tells them that her family kills werewolves, but he doesn’t believe her until he himself is bitten by a werewolf and the family tries to kill him. Another fairy tale that’s getting re-imaged is Hansel and Gretel, in the form of ‘Hansel.’ Twenty years after he initially meet the infamous witch, Hansel tries to find her again to seek revenge, only to find that his sister Gretel, who he thought was dead, is now working with the witch.
Written by: Karen Benardello