Sometimes, folks, movie news is so epic that it can’t immediately be discerned whether it’s epically good or epically bad.  All I know is that this is a big lump of something, though whether it’s a big lump of awesome or a big lump of suck will remain to be seen.

Seems that Will Ferrell (on the producer slot) and Tommy Wirkola (whose name you’ll recognize from zombie Nazi epic Dead Snow) have banded together to get working on a remake of the Hansel and Gretel story, along with writer Dante Harper.

A basic synopsis is now available, and it boggles my mind.  Picture a funny version of The Brothers Grimm, and you’ll have a good idea what’s going on. Basically, fifteen years after the duo in question jammed a cannibal witch into a scorching hot oven to die, they’ve decided it’s time to take up a new line of work–witch bounty hunting.  Apparently there’s a LOT of witches around, and it’s up to Hansel and Gretel to kill them off but good.

See what I mean?  Good? Bad?  It could go either way and do so on an unimaginable scale.  But how will it turn out?  We’ll have a ways to wait before we find that one out.