It's really, really cool to be able to take a story that's very well known and take out some of the other characters and just smack dab, Hansel and Gretel right in the middle of it. And this new opportunity that we have with a series like this actually allows you to tell some pretty odd stories because you now have time to either put it in an episode or arc it over multiple episodes. But some of these stories are so absurd and strange that in a way you almost can't make a feature film out of it. For me, coming from feature animation, we've oftentimes attempted to adapt fairy tales, and some of them, particularly Disney, did very well with them. What Adam eventually chose to do was, 'Why don't we take one overarching novel approach and take Hansel and Gretel onto a journey where they experience a multitude of these fairy tales?' Basically, we replace the heroes of those stories with the same characters rather than going into individual stories.

The Grimm brothers took it upon themselves and created really strong narrative stories out of them. Before that, there were folk tales that got verbally passed on from generation to generation. Their heads just got chopped off!' Like, 'Isn't that great?' It must have meaning because these stories go 200 years back. In its unsanitized version, kids really get drawn in, particularly when you then undercut it with humor and sort of ask the question like, 'Well, that was weird. In doing so, he discovered that the essence of the stories is really valuable and the characters are exciting.

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