Merrick here...
Leonardo DiCaprio's Appian Way company is pulling together a "reimagining" of LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD with ORPHAN scriptwriter David Leslie Johnson.
The best-known version of the story -- in which a wolf disguises himself to fool a girl delivering food to her sick grandmother in the forest -- was published in the 19th century by the Brothers Grimm. Earlier oral versions of the tale, which date back to the Middle Ages, are far darker and sometimes involve a werewolf rather than a wolf; the first published version, by Charles Perrault, concludes with Red Riding Hood eaten by the wolf, with no happy ending.
...reveals Variety.
The project is not being set-up for Leo to star in.
This could work well enough, I suppose, although this interpretation might interest me more:
