Bambi is ready to obtain a terrifying transformation for a brand new film from the workforce behind Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey.

Bambi: The Reckoning is ready to enter manufacturing subsequent yr and can function a graphic horror tackle the much-loved traditional.

Producer Scott Jeffery stated to Dread Central: “The movie will probably be an extremely darkish retelling of the 1928 story everyone knows and love.

“Discovering inspiration from the design utilized in Netflix’s The Ritual, Bambi will probably be a vicious killing machine that lurks within the wilderness. Put together for Bambi on rabies!”

Like Winnie the Pooh, the supply novel of Bambi lately — written by Felix Salten and printed in 1928 — entered the general public area, that means its copyright is now not owned by anyone so events can put their very own spin on the character, very like we see with Sherlock Holmes.

Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey sees Pooh and Piglet turning feral after being deserted by a college-bound Christopher Robin with the movie going viral when it was teased earlier this yr.

Learn extra: Winnie The Pooh goes on killing spree in first ‘Blood And Honey’ horror film trailer

Blood and Honey is at the moment set to be launched in early 2023 and would be the first of Jeffery’s movies to get a theatrical launch – made potential after the viral second earlier in 2022.

Jeffery and his manufacturing firm Jagged Edge Productions are additionally planning a darkish tackle Peter Pan entitled Peter Pan: Neverland Nightmare.

Jagged Edge has additionally made low funds horror motion pictures centred across the Easter Bunny, the nursery rhyme Jack and Jill, and Krampus.

Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey is directed by Rhys Frake-Waterfield and stars Craig David Dowsett as Pooh and Chris Cordell and Piglet. Different solid members embrace Danielle Ronald, Natasha Tosini and Amber Doig-Thorne.

A sequel to Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey can be within the works.

Bambi: The Reckoning is deliberate for launch round Valentine’s Day 2023.

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