MGM To Purchase 'The Brothers Grimm'

With an eye toward creating a summer tentpole pic, MGM is in final negotiations to purchase ``The Brothers Grimm,'' penned by Ehren Kruger (''Scream 3'').
The scribe stands to make into the seven figures if the movie gets greenlit.

``Grimm'' is a revisionist adventure story that follows brothers Jacob and Willem Grimm, renowned collectors of folklore, who are forced to investigate a haunted forest where girls have been disappearing. Much of the drama is spun from classical mythology and fables.

Kruger's films as ``Reindeer Games,'' ``Arlington Road'' and the upcoming Dimension picture ``Spy Kids.''