Felicia Day has been tapped to star in Syfy’s reimagining of Little Red Riding Hood, called Red. In Red, she’s protray a descendant of Little Red Riding Hood, who, turns out to be a werewolf hunter. But hang tite gang… it isn’t airing until 2011, so we have a ways to go before we see this project from Syfy.
A wee back, I had reported that Syfy was reimagining some classic tales. Their first effort was their Beauty and the Beast project which a few weeks previous to this article, but despite their sales pitch that led me to believe that these new retakes were going to be better than the usual fare, I was sorely disappointed.
But as far as I’m concerned, I would imagine that Felicia Day wouldn’t sign on for something that is quite that hokey.
So for now, we wait! Patiently… I hope.
Here’s the press release:
Felicia Day, star of web videos The Guild and Joss Whedon’s Dr. Horrible’s Sing-a-long Blog, who also played “Vi” in the final season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, will portray a werewolf-hunting descendant of Little Red Riding Hood in the new Syfy Saturday Original Movie, Red.
Scheduled to premiere in 2011, Red is Syfy’s latest re-imagining of classic fairy tales, legends and pop culture characters. The new line of films launched with Beauty and the Beasts: A Dark Tale, which starred Estella Warren, on February 27.
Syfy, one of television’s most prolific producers of original movies, is also developing films around the stories of Aladdin, Sinbad the Sailor and Hansel & Gretel, among other projects.
In the action-packed Red, Red (Day) brings her fiance home, where he meets the family and learns about their business – hunting werewolves. He’s skeptical until bitten by a werewolf. When her family insists he must be killed, Red tries saving him. Red also stars Kavan Smith (Stargate Atlantis) and Stephen McHattie (Watchmen). Red is produced by Angela Mancuso and Vesuvius Productions in association with Chesler Perlmutter Productions.
In addition to Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Felicia is most widely known for her work in web video. She co-starred in Joss Whedon’s Internet musical Dr. Horrible’s Sing-a-long Blog, which was voted the Best Web TV of 2008 by Time Magazine, Entertainment Weekly and People Magazine.
Currently she stars in the web series The Guild, (Which Bruce on Cinema Static has to check out!) which she created, writes and stars in. The Guild was the winner of the YouTube, Yahoo and SXSW Best Web Series Awards for 2008. The series has generated more than 50 million views web-wide. Day also has a hugely popular Twitter following, reaching more than 1.7 million fans.
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