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When one talks about Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, most of us remember the Disney classic animation that was by far the only perfect adaptation of one of the most loved stories of all time.
Now, as the story has been adapted on to the big screen there are two different running titles vying for the fairest of them all. One the other hand we have “Mirror, Mirror” and on the other is “Snow White and The Huntsman of which an article read that the world feels especially cruel, tense and chaotic these days, so of course people want new-look fairy tales to escape it all. That’s the presumption of Hollywood, at least, which thinks that what you need in a grim era is, well, more Grimm. On television there’s “Once Upon a Time” and “Grimm,” in comics there’s Bill Willingham’s sprawling epic “Fables,“ and on the big screen we have “Puss in Boots” cat-walking in the footsteps of “Red Riding Hood,” “Stardust,” “Enchanted,” “Beastly,” “Hoodwinked,” “The Brothers Grimm” and the hugely successful “Shrek” films. Then there ‘s also the billion-dollar success of Tim Burton’s “Alice in Wonderland” and Disney’s upcoming “Oz: The Great and Powerful,” which aren’t pure fairy tales but certainly qualify as bookshelf cousins that offer a similar other worldly allure to filmmakers.
Looking ahead, there’s “Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters” with Jeremey Renner and Gemma Arterton in March and Bryan Singer’s “Jack the Giant Killer“ next summer. Talk is percolating, too, of a “Maleficent” film, but that would be just another entry on the ever-growing list of projects of magic and fable. But the big fairy-tale focus at the moment is on two wildly different versions and visions of the story of Snow White. First there’s “Mirror, Mirror,” directed by Tarsem Singh (“Immortals,” “The Cell”), who hopes to conjure up plenty of winking humor with Julia Roberts as the Evil Queen, Lily Collins as Snow White, Armie Hammer as Prince Andrew Alcott, Sean Bean as the King and Nathan Lane as Brighton. The movie from Relativity Media (a Hollywood player now at a crossroads) and then there’s an entirely different palette and tone, meanwhile, to “Snow White and the Huntsman,” directed by Rupert Sanders (and produced by Joe Roth, a key force behind Burton’s “Alice”), which gives us Kristen Stewart as Snow White, Chris Hemsworth as the Huntsman, Charlize Theron as the Evil Queen, and Sam Claflin as the prince. The movie, which hits U.S. theaters on the first day of June, also features Ian McShane as Beith, Nick Frost as Nion, Toby Jones as Coll and Ray Winstone as Gort. Here’s a trailer for the Universal Pictures film.
Now after watching both movies I would have to say that I’d go with Kristen Stewart and Charlize Theron’s adaptation purely from a male’s point of view since it portrays a more darker genre but for kids it would be safe to watch Julia Roberts play a much more sweet smiling queen. What’s your take on these two rival projects? (which, by the way, have been jockeying for position for months).
Source: Yahoo!
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