Two months after the initial one broke, Apple has debuted a second trailer for Catherine Hardwicke’s RED RIDING HOOD. Sure it’s tweeny-bopper TWILIGHT material – with every kid looking like a goddamn Calvin Klein model – but one thing is certain. Okay, two things. Amanda Seyfried (below) is sexy in her innocence, and Gary Oldman is…well…f*ckin’ creeper!
With Virginia Madsen, Billy Burke, Shiloh Fernandez, Max Irons, Julie Christie, Michael Hogan and Lukas Haas also playing a part:
In “Red Riding Hood,” Seyfried plays Valerie, a beautiful young woman torn between two men. She is in love with a brooding outsider, Peter (Fernandez), but her parents have arranged for her to marry the wealthy Henry (Irons). Unwilling to lose each other, Valerie and Peter are planning to run away together when they learn that Valerie’s older sister has been killed by the werewolf that prowls the dark forest surrounding their village.
For years, the people have maintained an uneasy truce with the beast, offering the creature a monthly animal sacrifice. But under a blood red moon, the wolf has upped the stakes by taking a human life. Hungry for revenge, the people call on famed werewolf hunter, Father Solomon (Oldman), to help them kill the wolf. But Solomon’s arrival brings unintended consequences as he warns that the wolf, who takes human form by day, could be any one of them.
As the death toll rises with each moon, Valerie begins to suspect that the werewolf could be someone she loves. As panic grips the town, Valerie discovers that she has a unique connection to the beast—one that inexorably draws them together, making her both suspect…and bait.
RED RIDING HOOD’s run begins March 11th.