Horror? Peter Dinklage RUMPELSTILTSKIN Reboot
Not sure if this project is going to be horror or not, but if it does end up within our beloved genre, it’s something to get excited about. Turns out, Sony is in development on Rumpelstiltskin with Peter Dinklage attached to star and produce.
Patrick Ness will pen the script Variety reports. Ness is best known as the author of A Monster Calls. So maybe this will be more in line with that “kid-ish, horror-ish” flick.
Specific plot details are being kept under wraps and it’s unknown if the story will be set in modern times or its original setting. The film is still in development and would not be Dinklage’s next project, but it is a priority for the actor and studio. Dinklage, Karen Rosenfelt, Matt Smith David Alpert, David Ginsberg, and Josh Weinstock are producing.
We’ll let you know when we hear more.
Synopsis:
The character first appeared in a Brothers Grimm tale and follows a miller who lies to the king, telling him that his daughter can spin straw into gold. The king calls for the girl, shuts her in a tower room filled with straw and a spinning wheel, and demands she spin the straw into gold by morning or he will cut off her head. When she has given up all hope, an imp-like creature, a.k.a. Rumpelstiltskin appears in the room and spins the straw into gold in return for her necklace. Though the return is good in the short term, Rumpelstiltskin’s motives lie in the long term and end up costing the girl more than she could have bargained for.
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