According to the Hollywood Reporter, SyFy is set to reinvent classic fairy tales, for it’s Saturday TV movie franchise, starting with their take on ‘Beauty and the Beast’ which is one of five movies, and will air on February 27th.

The SyFy take on ‘Hansel & Gretel’ will take place years after escaping the witch in the haunted forest, with Hansel returning to seek revenge. In ‘Little Red Riding Hood’, a descendant of Little Red discovers her family secretly hunts werewolves.

Thomas Vitale, Executive VP in charge of programming and original movies at SyFy, had this to say…

It’s exciting to take a treasured brand and put our own sideways spin on it. By turning familiar timeless stories inside out, we’re creating an entertaining new genre for our popular Saturday night movie franchise.

You can view the full article at the Hollywood Reporter