SyFy Re-Imagined fairy tales starts with Beauty and the Beast

Monday, February 1st, 2010 | Movies, Sci-fi

Syfy is lining up a franchise of sorts, re-imagined fairy tales and legends.  The movies will air during SyFy’s Original Movie Saturday.  The first movie we will see is Beauty and the Beast with premiers Feb. 27 at 9PM

Here is the description from SyFy:

Beauty and the Beast -  In this gritty celebration of Valentine’s Day, a young Beauty (Estella Warren) with a gift for healing helps a deformed Prince (Rhett Gilles, Wraiths of Roanoke) regain his throne and defeat the ruthless nobleman who wants to be king — and then together they try to destroy a power-hungry witch.

Ok, sounds like a re-telling on the surface. However, SyFy’s overview of the other movies coming sounds more promising.

Vitale also announced a preliminary development slate for the new line of Syfy Original Movies including:

Red — A young woman who is a descendant of the real Little Red Riding Hood brings her fiancé 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.

Hansel — Twenty years after his encounter with the witch, a grown-up Hansel returns to the haunted forest, seeking revenge. But there’s a surprise waiting – his sister Gretel (who he thought had been killed) is the witch’s protégée.

8TH Voyage of Sinbad — Sinbad searches for the golden head of the long lost Colossus of Rhodes and, instead, discovers an island where the mythical Minotaur still rules, protecting a vast treasure. Sinbad and his crew have to battle the creature and its minions to get the treasure and save their own lives.

Aladdin (working title) — After accidentally releasing an evil genie from an ancient lamp, Aladdin must find a way to imprison the genie again before it wreaks havoc on the world.

Black Forest — A group of naïve tourists take a sightseeing tour into a supposed enchanted forest, where they encounter evil creatures from the world of fantasy. Trapped in the Black Forest, their only hope of survival is fighting their way out.

I can’t wait to see the Little Red Riding Hood and Hansel and Gretel ones. Good ideas presented there.

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