The Syfy Saturday movies just got a whole lot cooler and have significantly boosted their geek cred. Felicia Day, star of the web series The Guild will play a werewolf-hunting descendant of Little Red Riding Hood in the new Syfy Saturday Original Movie, Red. Read that sentence again and see if it doesn’t seriously r0x0r your inner geek about eight different ways.
In the action-packed Red, Red brings her fiancé home, where he meets the family and learns about their business – hunting werewolves. He’s skeptical until bitten by a werewolf. When her family insists he must be killed, Red tries saving him. Red also stars Kavan Smith (Stargate Atlantis) and Stephen McHattie (Watchmen). Red is produced by Angela Mancuso and Vesuvius Productions in association with Chesler Perlmutter Productions.
Although this is probably the project that forced Felicia to cancel her appearance at this year’s Emerald City ComiCon, I am very stoked to see this now. The addition of Kavan Smith and Stephen McHattie is icing on the nerd cake. Scheduled to premiere in 2011, Red is Syfy’s latest re-imagining of classic fairy tales, legends and pop culture characters. The new line of films launched with Beauty and the Beasts: A Dark Tale, which starred Estella Warren, on February 27.