Snow White has become incredibly popular all of a sudden, with Disney planning a modern take about a young British girl who is trained to fight by seven Shaolin monks, Brett Ratner going faithful to the original with The Brothers Grimm: Snow White, and now news emerging of a flick called Snow White And The Huntsman.
Written by Evan Daughtery, with commercials helmer Rupert Sanders directing and Joe Roth producing, the project has been shopped around Hollywood for the last few days, with Universal emerging as the winner, paying seven figures for the the rights to the pitch.
THR reports that ‘the new take sees an expanded role for the Huntsman -in the fairy tale, he is ordered to take Snow White into the woods and kill her, but instead lets her go – and according to sources the two are chained together for part of the movie as they make their escape. The Huntsman is not a love interest (fear not, the prince is still in the story) but acts more as a mentor, teaching the teen girl to fight and survive.’
If that’s true, what room is there for the dwarves? Well, we’ll have to wait and see. It’s unlikely all three Snow White flicks will make it into production, but ever since Alice In Wonderland and Sherlock Holmes, studios have been looking around for classic tales they can give the live action treatment, and currently there’s a lot of duplication while the companies fight it out to see who can get their film ready first.