Yes, the entire cast will have an English accent.
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Producer Joe Roth tells EW that he plans on making the folktale action-adventure movie into a trilogy. “It’s meant to be the first in a series of films,” he said. “This story will end, but there will be questions remaining for these three characters.”
It’s an ambitious move by the Alice in Wonderland producer, who is in a neck-and-neck competition with a rival Snow White film starring Julia Roberts. Shooting is already underway on that movie, while Roth’s film — which stars Kristen Stewart and Thor‘s Chris Hemsworth as the title characters and Charlize Theron as her wicked royal highness– begins principal photography in August.
The two movies will open roughly two-and-a-half months apart next year. Roth’s movie debuts second, on June 1, but he’s hoping audience’s will be drawn in by a Lord of the Rings-style take on the centuries-old tale.
See below for more on the film …
“We retain the basic story in the same way we retain the basic story of Alice, a young girl meant to be the queen who is cast out,” Roth says. “The Huntsman is a mercenary, in the sense that he’s a guy who is very able in the woods, more able than most anyone. His job is to capture runaway girls, who are all fleeing the kingdom because of the queen. He’s a nondescript bounty hunter, as we first meet him.”
But he’s no killer, Roth stresses. Snow White’s bounty is the first time he has been directed to return with only a part of the missing girl — her heart.
When he finds he doesn’t have it within his to cut hers out, the two become unlikely allies — at first fleeing the Queen’s forces, and then mounting a counterattack on her kingdom.
“He’s not a nice guy, but not only that he’s someone who has lost hope and lost faith. He has lost his wife, given up on everything,” the producer says.
This take on the character of Snow White is also different from the sweetly-singing princess we’ve seen before. “She starts out not a damsel in distress, but innocent and after 11 years of imprisonment by the Evil Queen, she escapes and learns the ways of a warrior in the woods, ” according to Roth.
Expect major battle sequences if the previous work of first-time feature director Rupert Sanders is any indication. He is known for harrowing (and sometimes hilarious) live-action ads for videogames Halo 3 and Call of Duty, as well as the NSFW short-film adaptation of the graphic novel Black Hole.
As for casting Stewart in the role: “Frankly what we did, we searched high and low for an unknown. Which was my want after Alice,”he says. “As we went through it, it just became evident to me that Kristen occupies a space in the universe where she’s a terrific actress only known for one part. I hope this is a movie that will appeal to those who find Twilight appealing, but also (Stewart) is someone who has some piss and vinegar in her.”
If the “fairest of them all” is described that way, imagine how the Evil Queen will be.
“She’ll be larger than life,” Roth chuckles. “Evil without any burden of guilt.”
Expect more details when Snow White and the Huntsman makes its presentation at Comic-Con later this month.
Via KStewartNews
- Lorabell *Mind. Blown.*
Lily Cole and Sam Spruell have rounded out the cast of Universal's "Snow White and the Huntsman." Pic will be directed by Rupert Sanders and stars Chris Hemsworth, Kristen Stewart and Charlize Theron. In this latest version of Snow White, in which the huntsman sent to kill the girl becomes her mentor and protector instead. Cole will play Greta and Spruell will play Finn the Queen's henchman sent to kill the Huntsman and Snow White.
Joe Roth and Palak Patel are producing through Roth Films. Evan Daughtery wrote the script with Hossein Amini doing the most recent polish on the script. Pic is expected to go into production this fall with a release date set for June 1, 2012. The news comes on the heals of the pic casting its dwarves with Ian McShane on board to play the leader of the dwarves Caesar.click here
Cole's credits include "The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus" and "There Be Dragons." Spruell's credits include "The Hurt Locker" and "Defiance."
And finally we have seven.Ray Winstone is in negotiations to complete the casting of dwarf warriors in Snow White and the Huntsman Universal's action adventure takes the classic fairy tale directed by Rupert Sanders.The study ended with the casting with the dwarves this week, entering into negotiations with Ian McShane, Eddie Izzard, Bob Hoskins and Toby Jones and Eddie Marsan and Steven Graham.Kristen Stewart, Chris Hemsworth and Charlize Theron star in the project, about a princess who escapes her wicked stepmother with the help of a hunter who was going to kill her but now coaches the princess to survive and thrive.In the script, the dwarves are named after Roman emperors with McShane playing the group's leader, Cesar, Jones as the timid dwarf named Claudius and Tiberius Izzard playing, described as the largest and most rugged of the group. Hoskins will play Constantine, a blind dwarf, a dwarf-looking Graham angrily called Nero. Winstone will play Trajan, Hadrian's twin brother (Marsan).Beginning in late summer in Europe to watch for.
Via Celebuzz:
Kristen Stewart‘s Snow White and the Huntsman will not interfere with promotion for Breaking Dawn.
In a brilliant move by Universal, EW reports they have moved up the release date of the film by six months! Not only does this beat rival Relativity’s Snow White (with Julia Roberts) release date by four weeks, but now production can get rolling earlier because Stewart’s availability for filming was just slightly in jeopardy.
As you Twi-Hards know, Breaking Dawn Part 1 comes out in November 18, 2011 and Kristen and Robert Pattinson will have the most promotional duties leading up to it.
Now, with Snow White‘s earlier release date, studio sources tell Celebuzz they are moving up filming at least a month to early August rather than September.
- Lorabell *phew*
According to the very, very trustworthy Gossip Cop, Sam Clafin is set to play Kristen Stewart's prince in her new film Snow White and the Huntsman. Kristen will be starring as Snow White and Charlize Theron is set to be the Evil Queen.
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