While he has done a few things on his own, to most people Nick Frost is still Simon Pegg’s mate, as his greatest successes have come while partnered with him. However with this year’s Attack The Block, he proved he can work fine without Pegg around, and he’ll do so again in Snow White And The Huntman, as it’s been announced he’ll play the final dwarf.
There is a little confusion though, as Variety says he’ll be the seventh dwarf. However, we already have seven dwarves for the movie, so either one has dropped out and been replaced by Frost or there are actually eight dwarves (which is what those who’ve seen early versions of the script have said there were). The Variety report doesn’t mention the previously cast Eddie Izzard, so it may be the Frost is replacing him as Tiberius, or he could be playing rumoure eighth dwarf Gus (if that character is still in the script – and it should be remembered it’s only Disney who said there were seven dwarves), a younger dwarf who takes a shine to Snow White. At the moment, it’s tough to tell which of those is true.
Ian McShane, Toby Jones, Bob Hoskins, Eddie Marsan, Stephen Graham and Ray Winstone will be other dwarves though.
Rupert Sanders is directing Snow White And The Huntsman, with Kristen Stewart as Snow White, Charlize Theron as the evil queen and Chris Hemsworth as the Huntsman. The movie is a slightly different take on the story than usual, concentrating on the relationship between Snow White and the man told to take her into the woods and kill her. In most versions, the Huntsman just allows her to run off, but here he’ll help her learn survival skills and fight back. There is still a Prince though, to be played by On Stranger Tide’s Sam Claflin.
Snow White and the Huntsman is due June 2012.