Steph Sharples

Entertainment Weekly has debuted the first image of Jeremy Renner and Gemma Arterton in HANSEL & GRETEL: WITCH HUNTERS. 15 years after their traumatic gingerbread-house incident, siblings Hansel and Gretel have become a formidable team of bounty hunters who track and kill witches all over the world. The costumes look fantastic and while it's hard not to laugh at that mini-synopsis, I really am looking forward to this one. Paramount was supposed to released the trailer last Thursday but it looks like we'll have to wait a bit longer. Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters hits theaters March 2, 2012.

EW:How does this movie incorporate the original Brothers Grimm tale? Is that story kind of a prologue?
GEMMA ARTERON: Yes, it continues it. You see a series of flashbacks with their experience of killing that first witch, which is brilliant. I remember being on set for the final few days of that. The candy house, and the witches are really repulsive and quite frightening. The make-up is out of this world. It’s this bone-chilling scene. Very dark. The girl who plays my character is brilliant, with the horrified expression she has.

Though it’s comedic, deep down it’s about abused kids becoming kind of hyper-responsible?
But it’s also very, very dark, and bloodthirsty and there’s a lot of cursing. It’s kind of got a [Quentin] Tarantino feel, really.

Renner says his Hansel is like Han Solo. Is Gretel a tough wise-cracker, too? Or is she Chewbacca?
Even though Gretel is very tough and can handle herself, she’s still a girl. [Laughs.] She’s got feminine ways.
Full interview at Entertainment Weekly.