Not one but two new “Snow White” movies are in the works, with all kinds of weird casting being batted around. Who would you choose?
Naturally, both retellings are “nontraditional.” First up is Universal’s “Snow White and the Huntsman” whose plot seems to have nothing to do with the fairy tale: “A huntsman is ordered to take Snow White into the woods and kill her but instead he chooses to let her go and the two are evidently chained together for part of the movie as they make their escape.” So, “Snow White” meets “The Defiant Ones?” Ok.
For the Wicked Queen, they want — wait for it — Charlize Theron, which we guess we can see working: she can certainly do imperious, and the Queen is pretty glam, as villainnesses go.
Snow White herself is still up in the air. Then Universal apparently considered Kristen Stewart (whom we can’t see doing anything with a Smile and a Song), Dakota Fanning (whom we can’t picture with the requisite black hair) and Saoirse Ronan (whom we love.) But now they’re allegedly deciding between:
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