Director, Catherine Hardwicke, perhaps best known for helming the adaptation of the first novel of Stephenie Meyer’sTwilight Saga into cinemas, is finalizing an agreement to direct Leonardo DiCaprio’s The Girl With the Red Riding Hood, according to Steven Zeitchik in The Hollywood Reporter.
The movie, which will be a Gothic adaptation of the Grimm’s fairy tale, is being sheparded by DiCaprio’s studio, Appian Way. The screenplay is being written by David Leslie Johnson, with production that could begin as early as next year.
Since her success with Twilight, Ms. Hardwicke has also signed on to direct Maximum Ride, the adaptation of the James Patterson young adult novel, as well as a new adaptation of Shakespeare’s tragedy, Hamlet, starring Emile Hirsch.
Adapting the fairy tale to the screen will give Ms. Hardwicke the chance to conceptualize her own version of the “Big, Bad Wolf,” something her exit from the Twilight franchise by deciding not to take on The Twilight Saga: New Moon prevented her from doing. The werewolves she worked with in Twilight don’t make their first transformation from human form to animal form until the second film, now directed by Chris Weitz.
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