Someone’s taking Hansel and Gretal and turning it into an action movie. There was a time when this was the sort of malarkey we used to expect from Hollywood. The sort of thing we made fun of them for. They’re still doing it, look no further than their Don Quixote fights actual giants action movie for evidence, but now the indie-euro world has started doing it too and somehow it’s no longer ridiculous to make a Hansel and Gretal: Witch Hunters, it’s cool.

It’s so cool that according to information picked up by Twitch from a Norwegian website Jeremy Renner and Dragon Tattoo’s Noomi Rapace are up to star in it.

The movie is exactly what its title suggests it is. The classic fairytale characters have grown up and now fifteen years after their misadventure with the witch in the gingerbread cottage they’ve turned their experience into an exciting career as witch hunting warriors.