The Girl With the Red Riding Hood still seems primarily like a teenager thing, directed by Twilight's Catherine Hardwicke and starring Amanda Seyfried in a "goth" take on the classic fairy tale. But at least they're getting a little adult supervision. Heat Vision reports that Julie Christie and Gary Oldman are in talks for roles in the film, while Max Irons, another youngun, is officially on board as well.

Irons will be part of the film's central love triangle, between Seyfried's titular character who is menaced by a werewolf, Shiloh Fernandez's orphaned woodcutter, and Irons as the guy she's actually engaged to. Christie and Oldman seem to be stepping into two of the more iconic roles from the original story-- Christie as Red's grandmother, and Oldman as the man charged with catching the werewolf, a slight twist on the hunter who usually comes to Red's rescue in the Grimm Brothers fairy tale.

Irons will be the one getting all the attention as the hot young thing in the film, but Christie seems to be the real coup. She earned an Oscar nomination for Away From Her in 2008 but hasn't made a major Hollywood film since 2004, when she appeared in Finding Neverland and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Of course, Christie's selectiveness with roles doesn't mean she always makes good decisions-- she was in Troy, after all. But it does lend a little extra hope for a film that right now seems custom-made for Hot Topic shoppers.