Muriel kills Mina before Hansel shoots her. Hansel, Ben, and Mina follow Muriel's trail to the original gingerbread house, now rotted and decayed. Edward defies Muriel and releases Gretel before Muriel throws him off the cliff. Mina slaughters the dark witches with a Gatling gun while Hansel frees the children. Hansel, Mina, and Ben disrupt the Blood Moon Sabbath. She heals him again and uses a grimoire to bless his arsenal of weapons. Hansel wakes up with Mina, who reveals herself to be a white witch. The siblings battle Muriel before she stabs Hansel and abducts Gretel to complete her long-due ceremony. The resulting angry mob burned her alive and hanged Hansel and Gretel's father, who had been trying to protect them by leaving them in the forest. To get rid of Adrianna, she revealed to the townspeople that Adrianna was a witch. She found Adrianna too powerful and decided to use Gretel's heart instead. On the night of the last Blood Moon, Muriel planned to use the heart of the white witch to complete her potion. Hansel and Gretel's mother was a white witch named Adrianna who married a farmer, explaining the siblings' immunity to black magic. Muriel tells them the truth of their past. Hansel and Gretel discover an abandoned cabin that they learn is a witch's lair and their childhood home. Edward kills Berringer and his men and tells Gretel that he helped her because trolls serve witches. Gretel is attacked by Berringer and his posse, who beat her before being stopped by Muriel's troll, Edward. The next morning, Mina finds him stuck in a tree and takes him to a nearby spring, where she heals his wounds and they make love in the healing waters of the spring. Hansel falls from a witch's broomstick and is lost in the forest. She attacks Gretel, who is rescued by Ben, a local teenager and avid fan of theirs who plans to become a witch hunter himself. The grand witch, Muriel, attacks the town with her army and abducts another child. Hansel and Gretel capture the horned witch and discover that the witches are preparing for the coming Blood Moon, where they plan to sacrifice twelve children to gain immunity to fire, their greatest weakness. Berringer hires trackers for the same mission in the hopes of disgracing the mayor and cementing his power. Mayor Englemann has hired the siblings to rescue the town's missing children, who are presumed abducted by witches. Now adults, Hansel and Gretel arrive in the town of Augsburg and prevent Sheriff Berringer from executing a beautiful young woman named Mina for witchcraft. He needs a shot of insulin every few hours or he will die. The pair are somehow immune to spells and curses, but the incident in the gingerbread house has left Hansel changed with a magic-induced form of diabetes. In the fifteen years that follow, Hansel and Gretel become famed witch hunters, slaying hundreds of witches. The siblings outsmart her and incinerate her in the oven. The witch forces Hansel to continuously eat sweets to fatten him up and enslaves Gretel. Its worldwide theatrical run gross exceeded $226 million for the production cost of $50 million.Īs in the classic fairy-tale, Hansel and Gretel are abandoned by their father in a forest, and the children enter a gingerbread house and are captured by a cannibalistic witch. The film topped the domestic box office on its opening weekend and was a success worldwide. The film was panned by mainstream critics, particularly for what they saw as its weak script and gratuitous violence, although genre critics were more positive. Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters was theatrically released in the United States on January 25, 2013, in 2D, 3D, and IMAX 3D, as well in D-Box motion theaters and select international 4DX theaters. Originally scheduled for release in March 2012, the film was delayed to allow additional time to shoot a post-credits scene with Renner. Principal photography began in March 2011, taking place at Babelsberg Studio in Germany. Renner was cast as Hansel in September 2010 whilst the role of Gretel was planned for Noomi Rapace before Arterton's casting in January 2011. In 2010, after being approached by Gary Sanchez Productions, Wirkola pitched the film to Paramount Pictures. The film stars Jeremy Renner and Gemma Arterton in the title roles with Famke Janssen, Peter Stormare, Thomas Mann, Pihla Viitala and Derek Mears as the supporting cast. It is a continuation to the German folklore fairy tale " Hansel and Gretel", in which the titular siblings are now grown up and working as a duo of witch exterminators for hire. Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters is a 2013 action horror film written and directed by Tommy Wirkola.
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