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NEW YORK, Feb. 3 (UPI) -- The U.S. cable television network Syfy says it is planning a slate of movies that re-imagine classic fairy tales, legends and pop-culture characters.
Syfy, which has had ratings hits with its fresh spins on "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" and "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland," said its Saturday Original Movies lineup will include new versions of tales about Little Red Riding Hood, Aladdin, Sinbad the Sailor and Hansel and Gretel.
"By turning familiar timeless stories inside out -- like retelling Little Red Riding Hood as a werewolf tale or envisioning a dark version of Shrek -- we're creating an entertaining new genre for our popular Saturday night movie franchise, which has become the television destination for fans of action-packed independent sci-fi, horror and fantasy films," Thomas Vitale, Syfy's executive vice president of programming and original movies, said in a statement.
The first in the series will be "Beauty and the Beast," starring Estella Warren and Rhett Gilles. It is to air Feb. 27.
"In this gritty celebration of Valentine's Day, a young beauty with a gift for healing helps a deformed prince regain his throne and defeat the ruthless nobleman who wants to be king -- and then together they try to destroy a power-hungry witch," the network said in a news release.
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