Fairy tales on telly? Nah, no-one wants to watch that, surely? Because we don’t already have Once Upon A Time, Grimm, Beauty And The Beast... Miramax clearly sees there’s an appetite for them, and has pressed Brothers Grimm screenwriter Ehren Kruger to develop and TV series based on the Terry Gilliam film.
Putting something into development now, ten years after the movie, doesn’t exactly feel like striking the iron while it’s hot. But with the aforementioned series and various fairy-tale movies helping fuel interest, it’s perhaps not that surprising. Kruger will use the movie as an origin story launch pad for ongoing tales of Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm, who discover the supernatural stakes behind the folklore. The casting search will kick off once the elements are in place.
“We reached out to Ehren Kruger and producing partner Daniel Bobker to see if they had any interest in making** **The Brothers Grimm into a TV show and the pitch Ehren came back with blew us away,” says Miramax vice president of TV Daniel Pipski, who first landed on the idea. We’re thrilled to be working with a writer of his calibre.”
As for Kruger, he seems ready for the challenge: “The original stories the Brothers set out to collect were not for the faint of heart and we’ll be making a show that gets back to those origins and their cautionary, scary, thrilling spirit.” The writer, who last worked on Transformers: Age Of Extinction is crafting a new take on Dumbo for Disney that Tim Burton is considering directing.