The trades are reporting that Leonardo DiCaprio's banner, Appian Way, is developing a reimagining of the classic "Little Red Riding Hood" with a gothic twist with David Leslie Johnson attached to pen the script.

Johnson's most recent script, the horror pic "Orphan," has grossed $28 million in its first 11 days of release.

DiCaprio is not planning to star in the film.

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.

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