Corona | Coming Attractions

Leonardo DiCaprio is really proving to be not just an actor but a guy genuinely interested in making movies. While the films that he stars in command the most attention from the media, it's the films that he's producing and developing that are snagging my attention. He's got films in development based on the creator of Atari, he was a producer on the recentlty released Orphan horror flick, he's got a new Twilight Zone movie in the works, and that's just three of about two dozen projects in various stages of development at DiCaprio's company, Appian Way.

Now DiCaprio has added a new project to the mix, a Gothic retelling of the Grimm brothers fairy tale of Little Red Riding Hood. Orphan screenwriter David Leslie Johnson will write the story, details of which remain under wraps. The original tale was about Red Riding Hood going off to visit her grandmother but when she gets there she discovers a wolf masquerading as her nana. Earlier versions of the fable were darker than today's sanitized retelling and had the wolf (which was sometimes altered to be a werewolf) gobble Red up. I suppose if you were a hungry wolf that was the happy ending for your species.