MUMBAI: Writer Dante Harper has been asked to write the script for Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters.

Dead Snow co-writer/director Tommy Wirkola is helming the project for Gary Sanchez Prods. and Paramount. The Norwegian pitched and plotted out the storyline that picks up the fairy-tale siblings 15 years after their traumatic gingerbread house incident that provoked them to become witch bounty hunters.

Sanchez executives Kevin Messick, Adam McKay, Will Ferrell and Chris Henchy are producing the horror-action comedy that is pitched as having a gory-but-funny Shaun of the Dead vibe.