Plot
Valerie (Amanda Seyfried) lives in Daggerhorn village, which is on the edge of a forest haunted Black. As a child, she developed an affinity for hunting out and secretly when they are not to love for a boy she grew up, a forestry worker named Peter (Shiloh Fernandez) said. Despite his feelings, but her mother (Virginia Madsen) and father of Suzette Césaire (Billy Burke), he refused and instead promise to marry Henry (Max Irons), the son of a wealthy blacksmith Adrian Lazar (Michael Shanks). For years the village was plagued by a werewolf, which comes out at night, feeding farm animals only get the villagers as a victim, so it can not be used on humans for prey. Things change when Valerie sister Lucy (Alexandria Malliot) is found dead, killed by the werewolf. Many of these men to leave the village to hunt the animal, where they think they live there, they encounter a vicious wolf, but not before Adrian was killed in his cave. Meanwhile, consoles Valerie grandmother (Julie Christie), his granddaughter, giving him an early wedding gift: a beautiful red hooded cape.
Under the head of the wolf is back in Daggerhorn, they decide to celebrate their release, but have had to kill the father of Solomon (Gary Oldman), a priest of werewolves, his own wife, to protect their children against their theory that is the real garou and after his death would be a werewolf in human form again. The villagers do not know. Valerie then learns that his mother in love with Adrian years before meeting her husband and gave birth unexpectedly to result Lucie, but Césaire kept in the dark about it. During the festivities of the night, Valerie, Peter provides the rejection of his time to his mother after she set a romantic interlude in a barn by pressure, they are separated, and shortly after the attacks of the werewolf, killing many villagers and injured Solomon, one of the guards. The wolf is Valerie and her friend (Shauna Kain)) Roxanne and both are shocked to learn that Valerie is not only to talk to werewolves, but can understand if spoken to. The only clue provided by the wolf, the identity is the eye color, brown to look like human eyes.
The next morning, despite the opposition keeper's brother, Solomon kills to protect the wounded. Having previously said that during the blood-moon, which happens in the course of three days, someone is bitten by the curse of the werewolf to become one. And all must die accursed people. He donated a study of the villagers at home to conclude that the wolf hiding among them. Discover in the process, she is Roxanne cache autistic brother and accused him of witchcraft, and stuffed him in a brazen bull, if he does not give you the name of the werewolf and Valérie Henry said, he Peter had seen with recovery and mutual understanding of the commitment. Roxanne, in the hope that his brother's release torture as a witch named Valerie and understand the mystery of his being able to werewolf, in exchange for him. Solomon has given up his brother, although traumatized and catatonic experience. Valerie is wearing a wolf's mask and sacrificed to appease the demands for the werewolf, but to save Peter and Henry. The wolf is coming, but unable to cross the sacred ground of the cemetery, where Valerie and Henry went to the sanctuary. Solomon tried to force them out Valerie and conflict in the wolf bites the hand. The guard, to avenge his brother, Solomon said: "A man is bitten by a man cursed, cursed the men can not live" before killing him.
Due to the circumstances of the disappearance of Pierre from yesterday, and a glove, where the wolf had a wound received when he tried to cross the grounds of the church, Valerie begins to suspect. She attacked him and fled to the house of her grandmother, but she is greeted by his father with the voice of her grandmother. Césaire reveals that he is a werewolf, and all are in his blood line to speak with him. When Lucia was not born of his blood could not understand it, he realized they did not lose his child, and in control. It offers the opportunity to Valerie, and to be a werewolf, each generation is stronger than the previous one, but if she refuses, he tries to enforce them. Peter and the two men have come a furious fight and Peter is stunned but Valerie manages to kill his father with the dismembered hand of Solomon, which was lined with silver nails as a precautionary measure by Solomon. Peter realizes that he had been bitten and cursed be the werewolf. Instead of killing him, but he and Valerie dump the body in the lake Césaire and then consummated their relationship before they finally leave. Peter promised to return when he ordered the beast. Valerie moves refuge in his grandmother Daggerhorn and back to the day, Peter. Henry went with the former army of Solomon, werewolves and other creatures to face, while her mother, with a maximum of Césaire return to their normal life and given.
One night, Valerie sees a wolf in the woods, she turned and smiled, revealing that she had given birth to the baby and because Peter has suggested, is happy that the three of them, Pierre was back then.
Cast
Amanda Seyfried as Valerie
Virginia Madsen as Suzette
Billy Burke as Césaire
Julie Christie as a grandmother
Shiloh Fernandez as Peter
Gary Oldman as the father of Solomon
Max Irons as Henry Lazar
Michael Shanks as Adrian Lazar
Christine Willes as Mrs. Lazar
Michael Hogan Reeve
Lukas Haas as a father, Auguste
Alexandria Malliot as Lucie
Shauna Kain as Roxanne
Kacey Rohl Prudence
Cole Heppell as Claude
Carmen Lavigne as Rose
Megan Charpentier as Young Valerie
Jennifer Halley as Marguerite
Dj Greensburg as Young, Peter
Archie Rice, as the voice of the wolf
Production
On Appian Way Productions, Leonardo DiCaprio, Michael Ireland, Jennifer Davisson Killoran, Alex Mace and Julie Yorn is producing the film. The film was shot in Vancouver. Early in the production of the film was originally titled The Girl with Red Riding Hood.
Casting
Directed by Catherine Hardwicke had his Red Riding Hood Star Amanda Seyfried with the newcomer Shiloh Fernandez convincing work, "Amanda took Shiloh before and did not like it, so when I told Amanda I bring him to the hearing, She made a grimace. But she tried, and they understood. "
Release
The original deadline to 22 April 2011 to 11 was used in March 2011 postponed. Red Riding Hood plus $ 14,005,335 in ticket sales on opening weekend, placing atthird ranked.
Marketing
The teaser trailer and posters were published in November 2010, writing "The Wolf", a new song exclusively for the act of the Swedish Film Fever Ray.
The second trailer was released in January 2011 with "The Hand That Feeds" by Nine Inch Nails.
A novel for the film was published in the 24 February 2011, before the film's release. The version of the book was 21 years, Sarah Blakely-Cartwright, Barnard College graduates, in addition to numerous films Catherine Hardwicke, including Red Riding Hood.The novel debuted at No. 1 on the list of the New York Times bestseller Pocket of children is published writing. However, given the criticism is not new, the history of the last, concluding chapter, which was instead only made available for download online after the film.
This movie can be categorized as movie box office is quite high production costs which is about 42 million U.S. dollars. These movies make a profit of U.S. $ 89,162,162. A quite satisfactory results.