The characters of Winnie-the-Pooh were originally created by A.A. Milne and illustrated by E.H. Shepard
LOS ANGELES – You know him as a cute, cuddly bear, but Winnie the Pooh is about to receive a terrifying makeover as the knife-wielding villain of a blood-drenched new slasher film — no joke.
Pooh’s shocking reinvention — which hits US theaters next Wednesday and has already provoked death threats from enraged fans — could break box office records and test the limits of intellectual property law.
“Look, this is mental,” said Rhys Frake-Waterfield, the 31-year-old director of “Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey.”
“I’ve had petitions to stop it. I’ve had death threats. I’ve had people saying they called the…
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