Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Red Riding Hood Photo Albums
I've gone through all my Red Riding Hood images and placed them in albums on photobucket. There are still a few scenes to go through for images, but for the most part, this is it.
Friday, March 25, 2011
SXSW Q&A
A few weeks ago, SXSW hosted a special midnight screening of Red Riding Hood. Below is the Q&A with Catherine Hardwicke, Shiloh Fernandez, and Sarah Blakley-Cartwright.
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Help Pick the 2011 MTV Movie Award Nominees
UPDATE: Red Riding Hood did not receive any MTV Movie Award Nominations.
Vote in all other categories here.
From Max Irons Online:
If you would like to throw in your support for Max, you can go here, scroll to the bottom where it says ‘Did we miss your favorite?’, select “Red Riding Hood” from the drop-down, then enter ‘Max Irons’ and vote that way! Who knows? Maybe he could end up nominated.
Monday, March 21, 2011
Have You Seen Red Riding Hood?
A thread has been started on catherinehardwicke.com for Red Riding Hood. Click here to join the discussion.
Sunday, March 20, 2011
Amanda Seyfried a Fantasy in Reality
Red Riding Hood is director Catherine Hardwicke's dramatic vision of the classic fairy tale, and also stars Gary Oldman and Julie Christie. But, thanks to her iconic red cape and flowing locks, Seyfried's character Valerie steals the show as the feisty village girl who breaks boys' hearts.
Some of the love scenes are much racier than you may remember, and that's thanks in part to the mysterious, brooding Peter, played by Shiloh Fernandez, and eager-to-please Henry, played by Jeremy Irons's son, Max Irons. Seyfried admits that she was excited to delve into Hardwicke's romantic, snow-capped world for a few weeks.
"I've never done a period movie before so it was really exciting. We shot in Vancouver where they had this giant incredible set made. Everyone was in costume and it was great fun," she says, adding rather surprisingly, "I actually didn't listen or read fairytales when I was young because they were too scary. My parents gave me the tapes to listen to as I was going to sleep, but they would give me nightmares, so I stopped!"
However, one fairytale did come true through making Red Riding Hood - she got to meet her childhood idol, Leonardo di Caprio. He produced the movie and Seyfried giggles when she admits she was a huge fan of his when growing up.
"The sad thing," she says wistfully, "is that I wish I could tell my 11-year-old self that `you're going to be working for him one day and you're going to know him'. I just can't imagine how I'd feel. To be honest, I can't connect to that innocent pre-teen girl any more. And that sucks.
"But Leo is great. He's incredibly attractive, he's a smart actor and anything he wants to develop I want to be part of because he makes great choices."
Check out the entire article here.
Some of the love scenes are much racier than you may remember, and that's thanks in part to the mysterious, brooding Peter, played by Shiloh Fernandez, and eager-to-please Henry, played by Jeremy Irons's son, Max Irons. Seyfried admits that she was excited to delve into Hardwicke's romantic, snow-capped world for a few weeks.
"I've never done a period movie before so it was really exciting. We shot in Vancouver where they had this giant incredible set made. Everyone was in costume and it was great fun," she says, adding rather surprisingly, "I actually didn't listen or read fairytales when I was young because they were too scary. My parents gave me the tapes to listen to as I was going to sleep, but they would give me nightmares, so I stopped!"However, one fairytale did come true through making Red Riding Hood - she got to meet her childhood idol, Leonardo di Caprio. He produced the movie and Seyfried giggles when she admits she was a huge fan of his when growing up.
"The sad thing," she says wistfully, "is that I wish I could tell my 11-year-old self that `you're going to be working for him one day and you're going to know him'. I just can't imagine how I'd feel. To be honest, I can't connect to that innocent pre-teen girl any more. And that sucks.
"But Leo is great. He's incredibly attractive, he's a smart actor and anything he wants to develop I want to be part of because he makes great choices."
Check out the entire article here.
Friday, March 18, 2011
Hardwicke Charges Ahead After 'Red Riding Hood' Debut
If the Texan — in Austin for a workshop panel and midnight screening of "Red Riding Hood" at the South by Southwest Film Conference and Festival — was irked by reviews bashing her new romantic fantasy thriller, it didn't show.
The artistic hard-charger, work ethic in gear, soldiered on, talking with customary verve and passion about her cinematic fairy tale, South Texas ties and unabashed love for Richard Linklater.
It was while working on the Austin filmmaker's "The Newton Boys" and "SubUrbia" that Hardwicke told him her dream. After nearly 20 years as production designer for some 20 films, including "Tombstone," "Vanilla Sky" and "Three Kings," she wanted to direct.
"I said, 'Rick, I want to make my own movies," Hardwicke recalls. "He's heard a million people say that. I said, 'Will you help me?' And he said, 'No, you've got to do it yourself.' And by discouraging her, she gratefully says, he encouraged her to do it.
Check out the entire article here.
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Hollywood Brings Out a New Breed of Brawn
In fact, Hardwicke followed a variation on her own Twilight blueprint in casting two relatively untested actors as Amanda Seyfried's rival beaus in Red Riding Hood, a lusty take on the Brothers Grimm tale that opened last weekend.As Henry, the good-boy blacksmith, she hired fair-haired dreamboat Max Irons, 25, the London-born son of Oscar winner Jeremy Irons.
"He is sensitive and heartfelt, the one your mother wants you to marry," the director says. "More the emo type."
Meanwhile, Shiloh Fernandez, 26, is outsider Peter, a dark-locked woodsman who exudes a dangerous vibe. "He is alienated and isolated."
If there is any advice that aspiring leading men should heed, it is this: Get thee to a gym. You ain't got a thing if you ain't got those abs.
Blame the barely clad warriors in 2006's Spartan epic 300 or those shirtless dudes in Twilight's Wolf Pack, but rippling tummies are the new cleavage.
Consider that Hardwicke asked Irons and Fernandez to work out so they would be physically believable in their roles. "Their characters make a living using their arms," she says. "I told Shiloh, 'This guy is a woodcutter. He has to lift heavy logs. I want you in the gym every day.' "
Catherine Hardwicke's Interview with io9
io9: There's also a lot of humor in this movie. How does that fit into the story?I actually wanted to have more humor - I had a lot more wacky things in there that didn't make it into the final version. The thing is, you have to have humor, but you don't want to throw the audience out of a scene where they're terrified for [Valerie]. But I loved Gary Oldman, and the fanboy nature of Lukas Haas [who invites Solomon to the village]. Lukas is totally geeked out on Gary, knows all about him, and knew all the details of the sword that Gary had. And yes Gary is campy - he's come to the town to put on a show and he's like Barnum, a circus guy. He's a showman.
Check out the entire interview here.
Max Irons Uses ‘Observe ... but Never Copy' Approach to Acting
“There was no kind of epiphany moment for me,” Irons, 25, said during a one-on-one interview at the impressive Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel.
“My parents tried to dissuade me from becoming an actor because it's such a difficult business. You know, statistically, the amount of people who are trying to succeed versus how many that have, it doesn't make for pleasant reading.
“But once they saw that I was serious and that I was doing all right, they thought, ‘OK, well, we'll back off and let him do it his way.' Which is nice.”
Irons Man Two: Max Irons on His New Life as a Hollywood Heart-throb
After training at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama and appearing in a couple of plays on the London fringe, he is about to appear as a drug-addicted pornographer in the Sky mini-series The Runaway and, before that, in a big-budget reimagining of Red Riding Hood by Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke. 'You've got to forget about what you know about Little Red Riding Hood and inject a bit of sexuality,'he explains. I thought Little Red Riding Hood was all about sexuality? 'Well, yes, it's about rape. But it's very subconscious...'
Check out the entire article here.
Monday, March 14, 2011
Amanda Seyfried Sings "L'il Red Riding Hood"
The song is available to download on itunes.
Check out the original below:
Catherine Hardwicke Talks Red Riding Hood
M&C: The fight scenes between the wolf and the soldiers are interesting. You’ve done fight scenes in a supernatural world before but here its people taking on a supernatural being. What was it like?
Hardwicke: That was fun; at least we had an invisible wolf. We tried to train a wolf to do that but he wouldn’t co-operate. They don’t care about films, wolves. It was wild wondering how I could figure out how the wolf pack would be. I literally ordered a costume for $69 off the internet and I had a kid wear it and tried to run around and be a wolf a stunt guy tried to be the wolf and sometimes I played the wolf off the actors, they were laughing, they were in too good a mood but it was supposed to be scary.
So I got in there and yelled at them super intense and ferocious and I did scare them I think. Andy Chun our stunt director on Twilight and on this, he does everything Hong Kong Style! We have no budget and I want it to be big $42M movie, that’s the budget of a romantic comedy and look what we had in it.
CGI characters, set extensions, horses, everything every costume and the village is made… and he was like “We do it Hong King Style!!!” So I thought we’d just push it to the limit. On the DVD you’ll see the really crazy crew rehearsals and everyone in the crew was playing the parts. How do you choreograph this, we shot it all digitally, put it all together and though how can we make it better? Do we even need that beat, that was boring, that was repetitive? Rhythm and Hues made the wolf.
We all wanted to make it kick ass and mean and unpredictable so we looked at crazy animal footage, animals cornered in bad situations, and rodeos, animals that are trapped. How do you make it this ferocious this beast that has been unleashed?
Check out the entire interview here.
Catherine Hardwicke Interview from SXSW
Part One: Red Riding Hood bestseller book tie-ins, films she wanted to make but couldn’t, Hamlet, trying to get on The Fighter, aiming at the teen girl demo, the odds against women filmmakers, creating fairy tale world and bad-ass bo-ho granny with dreadlocks (Julie Christie).
Part Two: Hair styles, building village on soundstage, aerial shot of Red Riding Hood with red cape, Heironymous Bosch paintings, keeping it contemporary.
Part Three: Male film critics and the Twilight factor, not doing the sequel.
Part Four: Working with Amanda Seyfried. Critics vs. audiences, roller coaster careers, indie vs. studio.
Saturday, March 12, 2011
SXSW: Catherine Hardwicke Packs 'Em In for Director's Workshop
Fernandez (no relation), who plays Peter in Red Riding, chimed in on her methods for working with actors in rehearsal and on set. Hardwicke took questions from the crowd and zeroed in on areas interesting to them, such as how she shoots women in scenes of physical intimacy and the camerawork and design for the through-the-treetops scene between Edward and Bella in Twilight. Her assistant Amanda cued the clips and storyboards on a giant screen to her right.
Hardwicke managed to roll out some concrete advice, but one of the most illustrative moments was when she cued a short video called "Thirteen in 30 Seconds" as a way to show how her use of color correction expressed the emotional content of the film’s storyline. The movie unspooled in super-fast motion, and since it rolled too fast to catch any specific images, you were left to focus on how the dullness of the early parts of the movie steadily grew into more vibrant colors and then became blown out as the main character’s life went off the rails, only returning to the muted, almost black-and-white tone of the ending.
(In the conference room next door, Hangover II director Todd Phillips was talking mean-spirited comedy and left-footed characters with Elvis Mitchell.)
Afterward, Hardwicke was off to hang out at Richard Linklater’s ranch – she did production design on his locally shot western The Newton Boys back in 1998. Fernandez was looking to see some movies and hang with the filmmakers of his previous film Skateland, which played SXSW last year.
Source
Red Riding Hood: The Tale Begins
Available to download from the WB online shop:
Synopsis:
Synopsis:
The secrets that have long been buried in Daggorhorn are about to be revealed in this digital fairytale set twenty years before the events of the film Red Riding Hood. Peace has finally come to the village of Daggorhorn, but it has come at a price. In this tale, Valerie’s grandmother recounts the events that have resulted in the town leaving a sacrifice for a beast every harvest moon. Valerie’s young friend Peter hints that the relationship with the beast has not always been so peaceful. Valerie and her sister Lucie demand to hear the truth about her family’s past and in turn learn that true love is worth any cost. Believe the legend. Beware the wolf.
Run Time: 15 minutes
Friday, March 11, 2011
Red Riding Hood: From Script to Screen
Up Close with Red Riding Hood
If you like your interviews on the dirty side, check this one out (warning for language):
Thursday, March 10, 2011
‘Twilight’ Didn’t Invent Werewolves, Catherine Hardwicke Says
A gothic retelling of the classic fairy tale, the new film covers familiar territory for the director. It centers on a teen girl, Valerie (played by Amanda Seyfried), who falls in love with a brooding bad boy, Peter (Shiloh Fernandez). But Valerie’s plans to run away from her village with Peter are sabotaged after a werewolf begins to terrorize the enclave, and her mother (Virginia Madsen) reveals her plan for her daughter to marry the wealthy Henry (Max Irons).A teen-targeted supernatural romance with a headstrong young woman torn between suitors, it’s safe to say, doesn’t seem like much of a departure for Hardwicke, who insists she turned down an offer to direct “New Moon,” the second movie in the “Twilight” saga, despite Internet reports that suggested she was fired from the project.
But Hardwicke, whose other directing credits include 2005’s “Lords of Dogtown” and 2006’s “The Nativity Story,” said her interest in making “Red Riding Hood” had nothing to do with her connection to the franchise adapted from Stephenie Meyer’s vampire-werewolf saga.
“I could go my whole life and say I’m not going to do anything with a love triangle, but whenever you have a romance there has to be some obstacle, and even the dumbest romantic comedies have a love triangle, or something,” Hardwicke said. “As for the werewolf aspect of this, people have been fascinated with werewolves way longer than ‘Twilight.’”
Check out the entire article here.
WB's Red Riding Hood Giveaway
From WB's twitter page:
Win a #RedRidingHood From Script to Screen book, messenger bag & more! http://twitpic.com/48a4cf Our giveaway starts at 5pm PST.
Win a #RedRidingHood From Script to Screen book, messenger bag & more! http://twitpic.com/48a4cf Our giveaway starts at 5pm PST.
Catherine Hardwicke Sees Lies, Lust in 'Red Riding Hood'
By the time Hardwicke's dark adaptation is done, half the villagers of a medieval hamlet are slaughtered by a terrifying wolf.
Families and young lovers are torn apart by suspicion.
And no holy man, no matter how devout, can exorcise the evil that inhabits the werewolves and locals in this sexed-up retelling produced by Hollywood superstar Leonardo DiCaprio and Warner Bros.
"When I got the script from Leonardo I was drawn in... everything revolved around secrets and lies," Hardwicke told CTV.ca
"I found myself suspecting everyone of being the werewolf. That appealed to me," said the 55-year-old "Twilight" director.
The fantasy world in "Red Riding Hood" was inspired by the bawdy sensuality of "The Garden of Earthly Delights," the iconic painting by 15th century artist Hieronymus Bosch.
The film's colours are rich, and the peasants are hearty and full of life.
And its heroine (Amanda Seyfried) is a busty young beauty who is engaged to one man (Max Irons) but cavorts in haystacks with another she loves (Shiloh Fernandez).
"The guys we've cast here are super hot," said Hardwicke.
Check out the entire article here.
Collider Interview with Shiloh Fernandez
Question: How did you get involved with Red Riding Hood? Did Catherine Hardwicke come to you for this because you had wanted to work together since Twilight?
SHILOH FERNANDEZ: No, not at all. I had auditioned for Hamlet, which she was going to make, and we both agreed that that was a good project and a good thing to do together, but it didn’t happen. And then, I read Red Riding Hood and knew she was directing it, and felt like that was going to be something that would be perfect for us to do together. I felt like it matched both of our energies and, out of all the films – including Hamlet and Twilight – that she’s made, this one suited her and I the best. And so, I actually ran into her at a party and talked to her about it. There was this British actor that was going around town, saying that he’d been offered this role, and I said, “Catherine, what’s going on?” We’d written letters after the Twilight thing, and she said we’d work together, and I said, “This is perfect. What’s going on? Why did you cast this person?” And she said, “I didn’t cast him. Come audition!” So, after a series of auditions, I got it. One of the things that she’s so great at is casting people that work well together. It was really important for her that Amanda [Seyfried] felt comfortable with who was cast, and she had a big say in that, too.
How was it to work with Amanda Seyfried and develop the relationship between your characters?
FERNANDEZ: Yeah, I spent a lot of time with her before we went to Vancouver, and up there as well. I just found her to be fascinating, as an actress and as a person. In the initial auditions, the way she speaks and her rhythm of speech and her choices are just so interesting and involving that you have no choice, but to hold on and let her steer the scene. That was new for me. I usually want to have control and win, so it was a great challenge to just be with her and see what happened. It’s not hard to fall in love with her, honestly. The hardest part would be to play that role where you can’t be with her and you have to say no, against your best judgment. I try to create as many circumstances outside of set that help me fall into character when I get onto set. I know that I do have an affinity for Amanda, and I really admire her and think she’s extremely talented. It’s hard not to love her. She’s wild. Amanda and the character are both really strong women, they really know what they want and they’re going after it, and they don’t really take no for an answer. All those things were attractive to me and helped me to really fall into it. I just think she’s cool. She’s easy to love, she’s fun, she’s funky, she’s great.
Check out the entire interview here.
Gary Oldman on 'Red Riding Hood,' Torture and Working With Catherine Hardwicke
Yeah, I very much liked her movie, 'Thirteen,' and you know, I read the script and I liked the script, but it was like, well, who is this aimed for? Who is the audience for this? Because it wasn't R-rated. It only went so far. And they said, 'Oh, it's a Catherine Hardwicke film.' And I went, 'Oh yeah, I get it. I get it.' She's had a huge, huge success with ... she understands that genre. I don't know if it's because ... I don't know how she does it, but she just gets it.
This fairy tale scared the pants off of me as a kid. Which one scared you as a kid?
Hmm. I remember 'Little Red Riding Hood.' I don't remember when I first heard 'Little Red Riding Hood.' I was that young. I can't remember. It's just always been there. I've just always known the story of it. I liked 'The Three Little Pigs.'
There was a nod to that in the film.
Yes, there is. At the festival. It always fascinated me. 'I'll huff and I'll puff and I'll blow your house down.'
Read the entire interview here.
Red Riding Hood: 9 Films That Twisted the Fairytale
Red Riding Hood (2011)
Catherine Hardwicke (Thirteen, Twilight) gives the fairytale a murder-mystery twist in her new PG-13 adaptation, pushing the sexual undertones of her heroine’s (Amanda Seyfried) erotic awakening more through visuals than story. Take the promotional image above: Teenager Valerie’s crimson cloak bleeds metaphorically into the stark white snow, while in the film her virginal innocence is tainted by her lust/love for the town bad boy (Shiloh Fernandez) and tested by the mysterious creature running rampant in her small village. Red Riding Hood ain’t little any more.Freeway (1996)
Reese Witherspoon is Vanessa, a young delinquent teen on the run from Los Angeles to Stockton – to Grandmother’s house – who gets mixed up with a skeevy serial killer (Kiefer Sutherland) named Bob Wolverton.
The Company of Wolves (1984)
Neil Jordan’s adaptation of Angela Carter’s short story takes an overtly sexy approach to the classic fairytale: Rosaleen (Sarah Patterson) is warned about the kinds of men to avoid, but she just can’t resist the charming Huntsman (Micha Bergese) she meets in the woods one day. He turns out to be a werewolf who eats poor Grandmother, and still Rosaleen finds herself drawn to him as his mate, the clearest depiction of the good girl-bad boy attraction in the history of the Little Red Riding Hood tale to date. Check out all 9 here.
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Amanda Seyfried in Interview Magazine
So if you’ve seen the trailer for the new film Red Riding Hood—original Twilight (2008) director Catherine Hardwicke’s new gothic pastiche reimagining of the children’s fairy tale and other “My, what big teeth you have!” source material—then you understand why 25-year-old Amanda Seyfried is now perfectly positioned to become “AmSey” or “AmaSe” or, our personal favorite around the Interview offices, “MandaFried.” Appropriately, Red Riding Hood features a conspicuously Twilight-esque setup, set in a medieval village that has been engaged for decades in a mysterious arrangement with a homicidal entity known only as The Wolf (they bring the wolf periodic offerings of goats and other livestock; in exchange, he doesn’t kill anyone). The story is centered around Valerie (Seyfried), a young woman with a soft spot for red-hooded outerwear, who finds herself at the center of a love triangle, torn between her fiancée, Henry (Max Irons), and Peter (Shiloh Fernandez), her childhood best friend who has just returned to the village after a decade away. As Valerie and Peter discover their new, more adult feelings for one another, they plot to run away together. Simultaneously, The Wolf, whose identity remains elusive to the villagers, decides to break the détente, as Team Henry and Team Peter begin to form. Hyper-real, supernatural, grey-skied teen terror-love—the key elements of that rare clean-energy source that seems to fuel youth-culture mania in its most extreme forms—ensues.
Check it out here.
Catherine Hardwicke Interview with Collider
Question: You’ve done drama, supernatural romance and historical films. What attracted you to doing a supernatural thriller?
CATHERINE HARDWICKE: Since I was a little kid, I did like this fairy tale. I did dress up like Little Red Riding Hood. My mom had to make me a cape. When I read David Leslie Johnson’s script, I found what he had done quite interesting. He twisted it all around and had these reveals. I didn’t figure out who the Wolf was, when I read it. I liked the un-peeling of the secrets and the lies in the town. I thought it would be quite a challenge to direct a mystery thriller. I hadn’t really done something like that. If I could really keep that mystery of who the Wolf was until the end, and create that feeling that you are suspicious of your friends and family, and have that growing paranoia, I thought that would be a fun challenge, and also relevant to current day. We read about secret lives that people have on the Internet, or alternate lives of a serial killer where the whole family didn’t know that their dad or their brother or their child was that. There are all the things in our heart that no one really knows, and I thought that that was interesting territory to explore.
Once you signed on as the director, were there any significant changes you made to the script?
HARDWICKE: Oh, yes, I did a lot of work with David. I got his first draft, and then he and I just holed up for days in my office and talked through every single thing. The things I didn’t really respond to in the script, we got them out. He had the grandmother like the ‘50’s, crotchety grandmother, nagging and scolding the kids and teaching them how to sew. I was like, “No, this is a lady that lives out in the woods. She’s a bad-ass. She’s got to be tough enough to live out there. She’s got to be cool enough to be bohemian and collect the herbs and live in her own world. The people in the village probably think she’s a witch because she’s different. She’s got dreads and amulets.” I wanted her to be a lot more interesting than a finger-wagging grandmother, so we did a revamp on that. We did a revamp on a lot of stuff, like what was the nature of the village? I had the idea that they would have the sacrifices, they would have rituals, they would have walls around the village, and they would have that paranoia. David was very cool, and we just started getting all these ideas and weaving them into the script. The blood moon wasn’t there, at the time. There were many things that weren’t there, but there were many awesome things that were there.
Check out the entire interview here.
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