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Taomonkey
05-13-2002, 08:52 AM
I sh!t you not.

http://www.aint-it-cool-news.com/display.cgi?id=12206

from the site

Disney to produce a Kung Fu version of SNOW WHITE! No, I'm not jerking ya off! No, Seriously! Dopey Fu!
Harry here... and the world has just gotten weirder. Way weirder. I'm talking really weirder. Walt Disney Studios has decided to make a Hong Kong Style re-telling of the SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARVES.
There will apparently be no dwarves in this version though. Instead there will be seven Shaolin Monks! That's right, Princess flees evil killer queen. Dark Forest, scary things... finds Shaolin Monastery and these Shaolin Monks decide to protect her from the magical evil forces out to kill her. This 'brilliant' ahem idea is being produced by the genius producer behind THE COUNTRY BEARS!!!! OH BOY!!!!! WOO HOO!!!!!! Ahem... cough cough... Sorry, hairball there. Well, one can only imagine the saccharine everything to everyone telling of this story and Shaolin culture that Disney will mass-produce here.
I'm really curious to read a script on this one, because there is a .3% chance that it could really be something cool and vibrant and not the lowest common denominator dreck that you would expect. So, for that .3% chance... I say, WOO HOO! It's gotta be better than that Sigourney Weaver thing... right?

red5angel
05-13-2002, 08:56 AM
hmmmmm, and to introduce the 7 dwarves...slappy, punchy, kicky..............

kungfu cowboy
05-13-2002, 09:05 AM
Wow, that will most probably suck quite horribly badly. What Sigourney Weaver thing are you referring to?

Kristoffer
05-13-2002, 09:49 AM
LMOL

:D :D
This is just SO sweet, imagine Kung fu monks in the next happy meal :D :D

Qi dup
05-13-2002, 10:13 AM
Originally posted by red5angel
hmmmmm, and to introduce the 7 dwarves...slappy, punchy, kicky..............

Don't forget Stabby and woop ass.

I think it sounds cool. You can't expect a disney movie to be to realistic. Or else Lion King wouldn't have been a very interesting movie.

Stacey
05-13-2002, 10:22 AM
where is the proof? I don't even see sketches or something from Disney.com. I think its a bunch of bull

Kumkuat
05-13-2002, 04:41 PM
Hey, anything is possible. I even have the porno version of snow white and seven dwarves.

African Tiger
05-13-2002, 06:16 PM
Well considering the evil disney empire is taking its film production offices to Canada,
(in yet another attempt to keep all the money in Mike Eisner's hands, and not pay the underlings a descent living wage)

I'm not surprised at all. Most of their last few movies sucked anyway, and were driven by the marketing tie-ins.

Tae Li
05-13-2002, 06:25 PM
I think its a cool idea! woop ass would be my favourite tho.:D

Can they change Snow Whites name to Tae Li as well???;)

Reckon it would work.....wont be lonf b4 the monk toys in happy meals arrive Kris......hehehehe

Tae Li;)

Silumkid
05-14-2002, 09:59 PM
So the monks would be (if I get this right from here...)

Slappy
Punchy
Kicky
Stabby
WoopAss
Mimicry
Doc

C'mon, ya knew Doc wasn't gonna change his name...

PHILBERT
05-14-2002, 11:33 PM
Nah we gotta have a Kwai Chane Kane in there somewhere.

MonkeySlap Too
09-19-2002, 02:58 PM
New Disney pic. No lie.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=848&u=/variety/20020919/film_variety/snow_1&printer=1

Hai_To
09-19-2002, 03:09 PM
Monkey Slap,

Its nice to see that you and I are on the same wavelength.

http://forum.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=16265

MonkeySlap Too
09-19-2002, 03:40 PM
Ah, I missed that.

Funny, I found the story posted on the 'Drudge Report' - a sight dedicated to news sure to make you think the world is ending.

kungfu cowboy
09-19-2002, 05:06 PM
That's lame. It would be much more bizarre if they followed the original story exactly but just sub in the monks for the dwarfs. And give Snow White tentacles.

rogue
09-19-2002, 07:25 PM
Here's a picture of the movies Dopey (http://us.news1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20020918/i/1032390468.3690987595.jpg)

GeneChing
03-03-2008, 10:26 AM
The Snow White and the Shaolin Monks project has been rumored for years. MK had one of his famous cool deleted threads on it back in 07-05-2005. If you do a search, you'll find offhand references to it in a few other threads.

So it's still be rumored. Now Padme has turned it down... :(


Portman turned down kung-fu Snow White (http://breakingnews.iol.ie/entertainment/story.asp?j=248127230&p=z48yz7936)
03/03/2008 - 8:41:56 AM Natalie Portman turned down the chance to star as an ass-kicking Snow White in a kung-fu version of the fairytale.

Natalie Portman turned down the chance to star as an ass-kicking Snow White in a kung-fu version of the fairytale.

Martial arts movie maker Jet Li was rumoured to be directing the adaptation, with Portman in the frame play the lead.

The actress confirms she was offered the part, and loves the idea - but won't be terrorising evil queens and dwarves anytime soon.

She says: "It (the movie) exists and it was offered. I'm not planning to do it. It is a fantastic idea. They should do kung-fu versions of every fairytale."

SPJ
03-03-2008, 10:32 AM
snow white fan since kid, myself.

snow white actress in the parade in disney land for over 20 years. and now retired.

she brought her lab for vacc in my clinic.

--

I was like--

just a big fan for the story.

the castle is "copied" after the neuschwanstein castle, it is the nicest in bavaria, southern germany.

--

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ac9w46suaL4

:)

SPJ
03-03-2008, 10:38 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2olW6yGTfs&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUBTX08MDCg&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3I1YnQGRq4

I visited the castle in the summer of 1988.

a year before the fall of the berlin walls and collapse of the former soviet bloc.

:)

sanjuro_ronin
03-03-2008, 10:42 AM
Snow white eh?
Is nothing sacred anymore ??

SPJ
03-03-2008, 04:39 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WlSk27FBGo&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kcz4WcBzsr4&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33DUOpMu_pQ&feature=related

tv interviews;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBvqan9-Nak&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFCDDjdyodc&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9jr2LtAb2Y&feature=related

music video's.

she was born in seoul, korea.

she is the most popular actress in Korea, Japan, Taiwan and the rest of east Asia.

:)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GIZ4fxpnsI&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1HpK5U_GZU&feature=related

edit;

off topic.

:D;):)

SPJ
03-03-2008, 05:16 PM
my borthers and I are old.

so we are big fans of teresa teng.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q13XsdfpcHA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGVdoY-JfbY&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGU5AkWrDPk&NR=1

:)

SPJ
03-06-2008, 08:35 AM
my brothers and I were also big fans for france in the 60's.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuN5jA3Dslk&feature=related

she was a teenage at the time.

we just called her the french doll or fa guo yang wa wa.

what amazed us.

she also sang german, italian, and japanese and of course english.

so in our young minds, we knew we had to learn other languages to appreciate other country's culture. etc etc.

she was an inspiration to a lot of teen's and us.

:)

SPJ
03-06-2008, 08:40 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXgdPM95Xas

here is the link.

:)

SPJ
03-09-2008, 03:32 PM
my sis, my brothers and me.

we are all big fans of shirley temple.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iU06dvHWjHE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2V4Sue3ID48

:)

GeneChing
06-07-2010, 09:25 AM
Ratner did Rush Hour 1 & 2 (http://ezine.kungfumagazine.com/ezine/article.php?article=248) and is working on Hong Kong Phooey (http://ezine.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?t=54704)

Brett Ratner Producing Edgy Snow White (http://www.newsinfilm.com/2010/06/07/brett-ratner-producing-edgy-snow-white/)
Published by Jeff Leins on June 7th, 2010

Brett Ratner and Relativity Media are producing a new version of The Brothers Grimm: Snow White as an edgy, 3D version of the German folk tale.

Deadline reports the company acquired the script by writer Melisa Wallack for seven figures and Ratner is already putting his grubby, Rush Hour hands on it.

“This is not your grandfather’s Snow White,” Ratner said, exhausting one of the most over-used phrases for remakes, as if no one younger has seen the original.

Wallack’s concept changes the seven dwarves from miners into robbers and brings back a dragon from the original Grimm version. “Walt [Disney] made one of the great movies of all time, but ours is edgy and there is more comedy,” Ratner said seriously and without a hint of irony.

If Hollywood is bringing back Snow White, maybe this will inspire Disney to dust off Snow and the Seven, a 19th-century story where the princess is guarded by Shaolin monks who teach her kung fu. I’d definitely watch that over something “edgy.” Francis Lawrence (I Am Legend) was attached to it about three years ago.

It seems the $1 billion worldwide gross of Alice in Wonderland is having the expected effect on the unoriginal industry. Studios are clamoring to redo fairy tales available in the public domain. Disney is already working on a live-action Cinderella, a revisionist version of Sleeping Beauty called Maleficent, and there are several Wizard of Oz remakes on the way.

Here's the source article:

Fairy Tales Are Hot! Relativity Media Acquires New Version of 'Snow White' (http://www.deadline.com/2010/06/fairy-tales-are-hot-relativity-media-acquires-new-version-of-snow-white/)
By MIKE FLEMING | Tags: 3D, Deals, Movies | Thursday June 3, 2010 @ 7:46pm EDT

EXCLUSIVE: The billion dollar worldwide gross of Alice in Wonderland has turned public domain fairy tales into the hottest segment of an otherwise sluggish script marketplace. In the latest deal, Relativity Media has made a preemptive acquisition of The Brothers Grimm: Snow White, an edgy 3D re-imagining of the German folk tale written by Melisa Wallack. Wallack's script work includes The Dallas Buyer's Club, and she wrote and directed the 2007 Aaron Eckhart-starrer Bill.

The deal has aggressive progress to production stipulations in the preemptive deal and I'm told the writer will make low seven-figures if the project gets made. ICM repped the writer. The Brothers Grimm: Snow White will be produced by Bernie Goldmann (who produced Meet Bill), Ryan Kavanaugh and Brett Ratner, with Tucker Tooley exec producing and Rat Entertainment exec John Cheng also involved in a producing capacity. Ratner previously got Kavanaugh to acquire the Sundance Film Festival documentary Catfish, and most recently Skyline, the scifi alien invasion thriller directed by Greg and Colin Strause which sold at Cannes.

Deal follows an upfront seven-figure Disney pitch deal for Devil Wears Prada scribe Aline Brosh McKenna to script a re-imagining of Cinderella. Disney also is moving quickly on The Great and Powerful Oz, with Adam Shankman and Timur Bekmambetov circling. Sam Mendes just dropped out of consideration, but there is rumor that Guillermo del Toro might meet on the project now that he's free of The Hobbit. Warner Bros and New Line each have version of Oz that are based on the public domain books by L. Frank Baum.

All of the incarnations of Snow White are based on the German folk tale, but this one hews closely to the distillation by the Grimm Brothers.

"This is not your grandfather's Snow White," Ratner said. "Melisa went back to the 500 year old folk tale and put in some of the things that were missing from Walt Disney's film. His dwarves were miners, and here they are robbers. There is also a dragon that was in the original folk tale. Walt made one of the great movies of all time, but ours is edgy and there is more comedy. The original, made for its time, was soft compared to what we're going to do."

Said Kavanaugh: "This is a project we've aggressively pursued and believe in. We love Melisa Wallack's script and her fresh take on the classic story we all grew up on. This film will bring together fans of the original fair tale and draw new audiences who enjoy adventure films."

doug maverick
06-07-2010, 09:45 AM
hate it when directors are reactive, ratner has it in his head he can do as well as burton did with alice, accept he forgot that he doesnt have an ounce of the visionary talent that tim has... will this blow chunks/.. possibly we'll wait and see. as for snow and the seven idk if disney is gonna goi near that, but who knows i know they have been trying to make mulan a live action film.

SPJ
06-07-2010, 10:56 AM
my brothers and I were and still are big fans for fairy tales

brother grimms

alice in wonderland

--

last air bender

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeIXfdogJbA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLIqErnQCuw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhHun-Jq7s8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-_1dNO3Hzo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeWsZ2b_pK4

:)

SPJ
06-07-2010, 10:59 AM
Just bought dvd of "alice in the wonderland" at costco yesterday.

much enjoyed. My kids love it, too.

the oracle fortold the slaying of a dragon owned by red queen by alice

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absolute turned into a blue butterfly and accompanied alice to China.

:cool:

SPJ
06-07-2010, 06:47 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmZaKDeqZpA&feature=related

:)

GeneChing
09-30-2010, 09:28 AM
Still hoping for the Snow and the Seven version.

Dueling Snow Whites (http://thefilmstage.com/2010/09/29/dueling-snow-whites/)
Published on September 29, 2010 by Kristy Puchko

With the huge financial success that was Tim Burton’s twisted take on Alice in Wonderland, studios have been clamoring to revamp classic tales with similar outcomes. Whimsical neo-noir writer Bryan Fuller (Pushing Daisies) is in development on Pinocchio. The Nutcracker is headed to theaters in the fall with rat-faced villains and 3D to add punch. Warner Brothers is working on a dark Little Red Riding Hood reboot. Disney’s got a project in development for Sleeping Beauty’s aptly named villain Maleficent, not mention a Cinderella revamp. And coming soon: dueling Snow Whites.

Heat Vision reports Joe Roth, a producer on Alice in Wonderland, is currently seeking studio backing for Snow White and the Huntsman, a new take on the fairytale that will be penned by Evan Daugherty, who garnered buzz for his Shrapnel spec script, and directed by Rupert Sanders, who is best known for his work in commercials. One studio will be skipped as they make the rounds, because Disney has a Snow White of its own in the works, titled Snow and the Seven.

Titles alone suggest a different focus in each film, however, in both, Snow White will be far more active than the fair-skinned waif of yesteryear. According to the New York Times, Snow and the Seven “follows a 19th century British girl who’s trained by seven monks to be the savior in a cataclysmic fight between good and evil.” An alternate title is Snow White and the Seven Shaolin, so expect some martial arts action and no more passive princesses.

Roth’s Snow White feature will focus more on the Huntsman, who in the old tale was charged with killing the pale princess, but took pity on her instead sending her terrified into the woods. In Snow White and the Huntsman, he will be a mentor – not a love interest, the prince will still take on that role. The Huntsman will instead teach the banished princess how to fight back and survive, as the two will be bound together (literally then metaphorically) for part of the story.

Brett Ratner will jump into the Snow White battle royale with his own “edgy” take on the tale. Backed by Relativity, Ratner’s The Brothers Grimm: Snow White, penned by screenwriter Melisa Wallack (Meet Bill), will be a dark comedy that features not mining dwarfs – but dwarf thieves! And a dragon. Why the hell not.

With this panoply of parable projects heading to theaters, fairy tales may well be the next trend in cinema.



September 29, 2010
Uni emerging as winner of new 'Snow White' revamp (http://heatvision.hollywoodreporter.com/2010/09/uni-emerging-as-winner-of-new-snow-white-revamp.html)
In a deal valued in the seven figures, Universal is emerging as the winner in the heated bidding war for a retelling of "Snow White."

The new take comes from scribe Evan Daugherty, director Rupert Sanders and producer Joe Roth, who have been making presentations at the studios since Monday.

As evidenced by the title, 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.

Daugherty, repped by UTA and FilmEngine, wrote a draft of "He-Man and the Masters of the Universe" and came onto the scene with the action spec "Shrapnel," which John McTiernan recently boarded to direct.

Sanders, repped by CAA, is best known for his commercial work, having helmed spots for such video games as "Halo" and "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" as well as for companies like Monsters.com.

GeneChing
10-13-2010, 09:25 AM
Relativity Offers The Brothers Grimm: Snow White to Cell Director Tarsem Singh (http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2010/10/snow_white.html)
* 10/12/10 at 5:45 PM

Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the unfairest of them all? It's a tough call, because Hollywood's fight over Snow White is getting ugly. A battle between Universal Pictures and the studio's linchpin financier, Ryan Kavanaugh's Relativity Media, is unfolding over their competing efforts to adapt the same fairy tale. What's more, Vulture hears exclusively that Relativity has offered the job of directing its version of Snow White, The Brothers Grimm: Snow White, to Tarsem Singh, the renowned commercials director (of crazy expensive spots like last year’s Britney/Pink/Beyoncé "We Will Rock You" Pepsi commercial) and the guy behind the equally visually wild Jennifer Lopez thriller The Cell. It's unclear whether they'll reach a deal, but talks are proceeding apace.

First, a little backstory: You may not have heard of them, but Relativity has quietly become the writer of most of the enormous checks needed to run Hollywood’s studios. So much so that two years ago, Relativity reached a multiyear deal to co-finance three out of every four Universal releases through 2011. “We consider this not just a film co-finance deal,” Kavanaugh gushed at the time, “but a true partnership,” one with which he was “delighted.”

So when Kavanaugh preemptively acquired a hot Snow White spec screenplay from Melisa Wallack last June and announced Relativity’s intention to produce and green-light its own 3-D version of the famous Teutonic tale, the last studio anyone expected to try to mess with him was Universal.

But then last month Universal acquired screenwriter Evan Daughtry’s Snow White and the Huntsman for $1.5 million against $3 million — one of the largest script sales of the year — from Alice in Wonderland producer Joe Roth. The Huntsman came with the equally hot commercials director Rupert Sanders attached, and contained aggressive progress-to-production language in its deal. An epic Snow-ball fight was on.

(Disney, meanwhile, is no doubt cackling like Emperor Palpatine, screaming, "Excellent, excellent!" as it readies Snow White and the Seven, which — and we're not making this up — features the usual complement of dwarves as Shaolin fighting monks.)

Kavanaugh, clearly, had long ago tired of merely writing checks; he wanted to be a studio chief in his own right, and for some time now, operating with only a fraction of Universal’s overhead, more or less has become one. Relativity could still make the same amount of movies as Hollywood’s “traditional” studios and then release them through deals at Lionsgate, Sony, Paramount, and, of course, Universal.

But Universal brass may also have been a bit annoyed: Had Relativity forgotten who’d brought them to the dance? After all, it takes a lot more than money to make good movies, right?

Regardless, we’ll soon find out, because talent agents at other shops indicate that both sides are clearly unsure if the other will blink, and so both Universal and Relativity are said to be frantically checking the availability of stars suitable to play Snow White, including Anne Hathaway, Scarlett Johannson, and Natalie Portman.

Meanwhile, the dueling Snow Whites have the rest of Hollywood looking on with a mix of shock and amusement at what many say is Universal’s uncharacteristically — even for Hollywood — boorish behavior.

“Financing most of their slate obviously didn’t buy him any kind of power over there,” observed one talent agent of Kavanaugh's plight at Universal, adding, “It’s like ‘We’ll take your money, thank you very much, but all’s fair in love and war.'"

Still, don't count Kavanaugh out, say agents. Consensus is that his script is better, and he might just be annoyed enough to ram this one through.
The more I think about this, the more I want to see S&t7 come out. After all that talk of Shaolin Disneyland, it would just be this art-imitates-life-imitates-art happening in the Shaolin chronicles. Disney didn't fare well in China with HSM:C (http://ezine.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?t=55766) so maybe Shaolin dwarfs will do it.

GeneChing
10-26-2010, 10:01 AM
Maybe S&t7 could team up with KotLP (http://ezine.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?t=56645). ;)

Exclusive: Tom Hardy Circling ‘Snow White And The Huntsman’
Studio Wants Angelina Jolie For The Villain (http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/archives/2010/10/26/exclusive_tom_hardy_circling_snow_white_and_the_hu ntsman)

We reported only a week or so back that, amidst the leagues of fairytale-inspired projects put into development on the back of the billion-dollar success of this year’s “Alice in Wonderland,” there were not one, not two, but three competing projects on the horizon that focused on the classic story of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves. Disney have the long-gestating “Snow and the Seven,” a kung-fu epic which sees the dwarves replaced with Shaolin monks, and Relativity are developing “The Brothers Grimm: Snow White,” which Tarsem Singh and Jean-Pierre Jeunet have been linked to.

But the one with the most momentum is “Snow White and the Huntsman,” the spec script by writer Evan Daugherty (”Grayskull”), which Universal picked up last month in one of the biggest spec sales of the year, for a massive $1.5 million against $3 million. The project takes a revisionist buddy movie spin on the tale, seeing the titular huntsman being hired by the evil queen to track down her runaway stepdaughter, the fairest in all the land. When he realizes that the queen intends to kill Snow White, he helps her escape, and the pair go on the run.

Universal have fast-tracked the project, and casting is currently underway, with commercial director Rupert Sanders making his feature debut on the film. Sanders may be a relative unknown, but he’s been a hot prospect for a while, being attached to the highly regarded script “The Low Dweller” for some time, as well as being linked to the chair on “Hunger Games” and “All You Need Is Kill.” With the project moving full steam ahead, we’ve received word from a source close to the production that Tom Hardy is circling one of the key roles as Eric, The Huntsman.

We’re told that Hardy, who’s increasingly in demand after stealing the show in “Inception,” is close to signing on to the film, and will fit it in early next year between the currently filming “This Means War” and his duties, of an as-yet-unrevealed nature, on Christopher Nolan‘s third “Batman” picture (he’s also got to squeeze in a small role in “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy” before the end of the year). Hardy’s schedule for 2011 opened up after George Miller‘s “Fury Road,” in which Hardy was set to take over the role of Mad Max, was delayed for over a year. It’s worth noting, however, that signing on here would likely put Hardy out of contention for the “Total Recall” remake, although Colin Farrell is believed to be the front-runner there anyway.

But with “This Means War” not wrapping until December, “Batman 3” set to go in front of cameras in March or April, and ‘Snow White’ currently aiming for an early 2011 shoot, we’d wager that timing on this one will be critical. We would imagine if ‘Snow White’ doesn’t start lensing right at the beginning of 2011, Hardy’s involvement may become a bit more of a difficult prospect.

We’re also told that the studio are courting Angelina Jolie to play Ravenna, the evil queen and villain of the piece. Jolie’s slate for next year is fairly clear, but she will be in post-production on her Bosnia-set directorial debut, and is also linked to a rival fairy-tale project, Tim Burton‘s “Maleficent,” so our source was a little uncertain on whether it’ll become a reality, although Jolie is said to have expressed some interest. Snow White, meanwhile, is likely to be played by a relative unknown—a mammoth casting call is currently underway in the UK.

We were a little concerned by the project initially, after being burned by the likes of “Alice in Wonderland,” and thought it might seem another questionable decision for Hardy after signing on to the McG action comedy he’s currently filming. But we looked at Daugherty’s script, and it’s actually very strong, one of the better action-adventure scripts we’ve read in a while. It’s faithful to the fairy tale, beat-for-beat, but manages to remain fresh and surprising in a way that, say, Burton’s film didn’t. And Hardy’s role, as Eric, the huntsman haunted by the death of his wife at the hands of a white wolf, is a doozy—tragic, heroic but with enough roguish charm to play to his strengths—and should see him move even further up the A-list.

The film doesn’t currently have a release date, but with filming set to begin in the new year, it’s theoretically possible it could be in theaters by the end of 2011. But with next Christmas and the summer of 2012 already very tentpole-heavy, we imagine a date in March 2012, in the “300”/”Alice in Wonderland” slot would be a smart decision, although it would put it up against “Clash of the Titans 2.”

sanjuro_ronin
10-26-2010, 10:21 AM
Ah Disney movies, they are going in a different direction now...
http://l.yimg.com/www.flickr.com/images/spaceball.gif
http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:L0o0kmKmaboRxM:http://imguploader.net/out.php/i435_09916889901.jpg&t=1

GeneChing
10-26-2010, 10:47 AM
You're repeating (http://ezine.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showpost.php?p=845876&postcount=4) yourself. You must have really liked that film.

sanjuro_ronin
10-26-2010, 10:51 AM
You're repeating (http://ezine.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showpost.php?p=845876&postcount=4) yourself. You must have really liked that film.

It was no Alladin, but it was good enough, LOL !!

GeneChing
11-02-2010, 09:33 AM
If Disney green-lights Snow, they better move forward on it pretty quick. Tarsem will surely do something very visual, but S&t7 has Chollywood (http://ezine.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?t=57225) appeal.

Exclusive: Tarsem Singh to Direct Relativity's 3D 'Snow White' (http://www.thewrap.com/movies/column-post/exclusive-tarsem-singh-direct-relativitys-3d-snow-white-22160)
By Jeff Sneider
Published: November 01, 2010 @ 4:59 pm
EXCLUSIVE

Relativity Media has closed a deal with Tarsem Singh to direct an untitled feature based on the Brothers Grimm's classic fairy tale "Snow White" that will begin production in March, the company has confirmed to TheWrap.

Melisa Wallack ("Meet Bill") wrote the 3D movie, which is described as an edgy, modernized re-imagining that will hew closely to the Grimms' original German folk tale.

The story follows Snow White as she teams up with a gang of seven quarrelsome dwarves to save her late father's kingdom from her evil stepmother.

While Tarsem is best known for directing the visually inventive Jennifer Lopez serial killer thriller "The Cell," it was his critically acclaimed 2006 fantasy film "The Fall" that most impressed Relativity execs.

Relativity remains interested in casting Natalie Portman as Snow White, though TheWrap has learned that Tarsem would prefer to cast an unknown in the star-making role, just as Tim Burton tapped little-known Australian actress Mia Wasikowska from HBO's "In Treatment" to star in Disney's billion-dollar grossing "Alice in Wonderland."

Universal is developing its own take on the classic fairy tale -- "Snow White and the Huntsman" -- which is described as a "Robin Hood"-type drama that focuses on the huntsman character, whereas Relativity's "Snow White" is more of a four-quadrant affair that will be looking to enchant family audiences.

Interestingly enough, there had been talk early on about combining the two competing projects, since Relativity co-finances three out of every four Universal releases (through 2011), but the scripts were deemed different enough that both sides opted to continue on their respective paths.

Disney is also developing "Snow White and the Seven," which features the dwarves as Shaolin monks, though that one is further away from the big screen than the other two projects.

Tarsem made his name directing commercial spots for Nike, Levi's, Coca-Cola and Miller Brew Co. His next picture is Relativity's "The Immortals," which stars Mickey Rourke, Freida Pinto and Luke Evans. Universal is set to release the action fantasy film on Nov. 11, 2011. Tarsem also served as the second unit director in India on David Fincher's "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button."

Relativity's Ryan Kavanaugh is producing "Snow White" with Brett Ratner and Bernie Goldmann. Relativity's Tucker Tooley will exec produce, while Rat Entertainment's John Cheng will also be involved in a producing capacity.

Tarsem is represented by CAA, and Vulture first reported several weeks ago that Relativity had offered him the project.

GeneChing
02-02-2011, 02:40 PM
Portman turned this down long ago. This is such an odd story. It's going into year 6 of development. :rolleyes:

'Toy Story 3' Writer to Take on Disney's Snow White Project (Exclusive) (http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/blogs/heat-vision/toy-story-3-writer-disneys-95225)
6:44 PM 2/1/2011 by Borys Kit

While Universal and Relativity duke it out to see who will be the first out of the gate with a Snow White movie, Disney is taking the stealthy road to its more elevated project, Snow and the Seven.

Michael Arndt, who just last week received an Oscar nomination for his work on Toy Story 3, is in negotiations to work on the script. Production designer John Myhre, an Oscar winner for his work on Memoirs of a Geisha and Chicago who’s working on Disney’s new Pirates of the Caribbean movie, has been brought on board to begin creating the worlds of the fairy tale, which is set in 19th century China.

Yes, China.

The unique project, which Disney has been developing since 2002, centers on a 19th century Englishwoman who returns to her Hong Kong home for her father's funeral, only to discover that her stepmother is plotting against her. She escapes to mainland China, finding solace among a rogue band of seven international warriors.

Francis Lawrence has been on board to direct since early on, even as writers such as Michael Chabon, Jon Lucas and Scott Moore, and Jayson Rothwell took cracks at the script, originally written by Scott Elder and Josh Harmon. Andrew Gunn is producing.

With all systems go for Snow, the big question is Natalie Portman’s involvement. Since last year, Portman has been circling to star, but her pregnancy now raises questions of whether she will be ready to undertake such a physically intense tentpole, which will feature several different fighting styles. Whether she’s in or not, Disney will easily attract another top star.

Arndt is repped by Verve.

GeneChing
02-03-2011, 01:29 PM
Pretty Woman to Evil Queen.

Julia Roberts Now in Talks to Play Mean Queen in Brothers Grimm: Snow White (http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2011/02/julia_roberts_evil_queen_snow_white.html)
* 2/2/11 at 9:20 PM
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We just peered into the mirror on the wall and saw ... nothing. But we hear from insiders familiar with the situation that Julia Roberts is finally engaging on Tarsem Singh's upcoming 3-D movie The Brothers Grimm: Snow White. With the film set up at Relativity Media, director Singh (The Cell, The Fall) has long wanted Roberts to play the Evil Queen ("Yes, the Queen! She’s wicked! She’s bad! She’s mighty mean!"), and now her reps have finally begun negotiations in earnest.

Universal Pictures, meanwhile, is steaming ahead with its own rival project, Snow White and the Hunstman (to be directed by another commercial shooter, Rupert Sanders), negotiating with Kristen Stewart (to play Snow White), Charlize Theron (to play that film's Evil Queen), and Viggo Mortensen (the Huntsman). Mortensen's talks have been ongoing for weeks now — but we're told that a deal is imminent.

GeneChing
04-18-2011, 09:37 AM
Still being mentioned, but little new news...

Fairy tales with a twist (http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-fairy-tales-20110417,0,1818969.story)
Hollywood's latest trend is taking childhood classics and reimagining them with a modern, playful sensibility.
By Steven Zeitchik, Los Angeles Times
April 17, 2011

All grown up, Hansel and Gretel return to the forest to exact revenge on their childhood tormentors. Snow White escapes the Evil Queen and takes up with a group of Shaolin monks. And after leaving Kansas, carnival barker Oscar Diggs remakes himself as a wizard in the Emerald City.

Childhood classics as seen through a fun-house mirror? Well, yes. But for the film business, it's also something far more consequential: its future.

Movie studios are taking timeless stories from authors such as the Brothers Grimm and L. Frank Baum and reimagining them with a modern, playful sensibility. And they're using big stars to do it: Julia Roberts and Charlize Theron will each get to add "Snow White" to their resume — they'll play the evil queen in two separate versions of the bedtime tale (distinct from the third version, with the monks, from Walt Disney Co.)

"What we have are stories that people have a general knowledge of but don't know the specifics," said veteran Hollywood producer Joe Roth, whose Oz movie, "The Great and Powerful," has James Franco playing a wizard and Mila Kunis a witch. "We believe we can retool and reboot, work out a new story while using technology to our advantage."

Roth helped kick-start the fairy-tale trend last year when he and Disney made "Alice in Wonderland." On its face, the movie seemed like a Gryphon-sized gamble — Tim Burton took Lewis Carroll's beloved book and turned it into a tale of battling computer-generated monsters. But after a billion dollars at the worldwide box office, studio executives believe Roth may be on to something.

Already, two Grimm retellings have hit theaters — "Red Riding Hood," reimagined with werewolves and an older protagonist by "Twilight" director Catherine Hardwicke, and "Beastly," essentially "Beauty and the Beast" set in a modern American high school with teen star Vanessa Hudgens.

Both movies were commercial and critical disappointments. But for the moment at least, that doesn't seem to be slowing down the bandwagon. Other upcoming adaptations include the Snow White films (Kristen Stewart will star in the Theron version, titled "Snow White and the Huntsman," and Lily Collins in the Roberts one, titled "The Brothers Grimm: Snow White"). Jeremy Renner and Gemma Arterton will play the adult brother and sister in "Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters," which is being produced by Will Ferrell's company and is about, well, pretty much what the title says.

Further down the road are the Shaolin monk "Snow White," a new take on "Sleeping Beauty" with Hailee Steinfeld, a separate new take on "Sleeping Beauty" with Angelina Jolie, and a Peter Pan origin story that Channing Tatum will produce. Once confined to the world of animation, fairy-tale movies are now big-budget, live-action movies with A-list stars and expectations.

The trend, say Hollywood insiders, comes in part from the need to appeal to younger filmgoers (or at least a sense of our younger selves) as well as the industry's coveted grail of "pre-awareness" — the notion that a movie is better served if audiences are already familiar with the title. And what could be more familiar than centuries-old childhood stories?

But academic experts say the fairy-tale craze is born of more than a knee-jerk need for branding.

"The culture has always had a need to take classic universes and adapt them to what we care about now," said Syracuse University professor Robert Thompson. "There's a lot that's brilliant about the Brothers Grimm, but feminism isn't one of them. So new versions of 'Little Red Riding Hood' and 'Snow White' fill that void."

The new takes mirror a literary phenomenon that began in the 1990s, in which novelists took classics such as "Moby ****," "Lolita" and "Gone with the Wind" and retold them from the perspective of other characters.

Kate Bernheimer, a professor at the University of Arizona and editor of a journal called Fairy Tale Review, says that all sorts of zeitgeist reasons are behind the fairy-tale revival. She cites a need, in a technologically-crazed time, to reconnect with the nature of fairy-tale environments as well as the "uncanny pull that the 'ever after' holds in an age of extinction."

But she also says that while a fairy-tale renaissance does seem to come along every few decades — witness Disney's resurgence two decades ago with "The Little Mermaid" and "Beauty and the Beast" — the plotlines never really go away. "So many kinds of stories the movies tell are fairy tales," she said, citing "Pan's Labyrinth" and the movies of David Lynch. "We just don't always call them that."

Indeed, one of the biggest film phenomena in recent years is, at heart, a fairy tale. Stephenie Meyer's series of "Twilight" novels, which already has spawned three hit movies, takes many cues from the genre — there's forbidden love, evil monsters, creepy forests and the promise of happily-ever-after. Classic fairy tales inspired the "Twilight" movies. Now the success of "Twilight" is inspiring fairy-tale movies.

Hardwicke, director of both "Twilight" and "Red Riding Hood," says the two films come from the same place. "I love the symbiology of fairy tales and I like to see them reinterpreted," she said. Hardwicke and other creators say the new movies cut closer to the dark heart of the source material than did the Disney versions of the 20th century.

One look at some of the filmmakers suggests that light and airy isn't exactly on their minds. Sam Raimi, a director known for "Spider-Man" and a number of horror hits, is directing the Oz reboot from a script by David Lindsay-Abaire, writer of "Rabbit Hole." "Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunter" is directed by a Norwegian named Tommy Wirkola. His previous effort? A gorefest about Nazis who come back as zombies.

Unlike Hollywood's fascination with disposable pop-culture names — say, "Transformers," or the upcoming "Footloose" — fairy-tale movies toy with the sacred. In paying tribute to (and deriving marketing benefits from) these classic texts, Hollywood executives are, in a sense, hoping to have their gingerbread and eat it too. They want reinvention, but they also know they need tradition.

"People want to see these stories get subverted," said "Beastly" director Daniel Barnz. "But certain things still need to happen in the film. It's not like we could have allowed the beast not to be turned back into a beautiful guy at the end."

Already, "The Great and Powerful" has caused an Internet firestorm as fans wonder why Hollywood is taking liberties with a classic — although supporters note that "Powerful" will hew closer to Baum writings than the classic 1939 MGM musical with Judy Garland, which sometimes ignored them. Those supporters also point to the successful and well-regarded Broadway musical "Wicked," which cleverly reinvented Baum's mythology with a story about the witches of Oz.

There is room, these advocates say, for new interpretations. "'The Wizard of Oz' is one of the greatest movies ever made. We're not trying to compete with it," Roth said.

But as so often happens in Hollywood, when executives take a gamble, they simultaneously try to hedge their bets. Disney, for instance, is now pushing the writer on its Snow White movie further away from its Brothers Grimm origins, according to a person close to the screenwriter, Jayson Rothwell. Hollywood fears audiences could soon become cynical about the very thing that once seemed so pure and innocent. And that would be a most unhappy ending.

sanjuro_ronin
04-18-2011, 09:59 AM
Pretty much ever story peaks when it's made into a porno, its only down hill from there, LOL !

GeneChing
08-08-2011, 05:09 PM
Right...I'll change this thread title when that title becomes firm. Remember what happened with Kickin' It (http://ezine.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?t=57913&)and that too was Disney.

Disney's 'Order of the Seven' Lands Director (Exclusive) (http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/disneys-order-seven-lands-director-218745)
Commercials director and visual effects wizard Michael Gracey has been chosen to helm the China-set epic, formerly based on the Snow White legend.

7:57 PM 8/3/2011 by Borys Kit

While Universal and Relativity jockey over their rival Snow White movies, Disney is quietly making moves on its own revisionist Snow White feature, a live-action project now called The Order of the Seven.

Commercials director and visual effects wizard Michael Gracey has been chosen as the man to helm what is being envisioned as China-set epic. Francis Lawrence (Water for Elephants, I Am Legend), who was attached to the project for several years, has moved on.

Andrew Gunn is producing the movie, which earlier this year got a refurbished script from Toy Story 3 scribe Michael Arndt.

The unique project, which Disney has been developing since 2002, focuses a bit more on Snow’s seven companions, who aren't as cute and jolly as in the 1937 classic Disney animated film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. In fact, the project, which was initially known as Snow and the Seven and had scripts by writers ranging from Michael Chabon to Jayson Rothwell, is evolving into more of an original action film, with the Snow White elements being minimized.

In this iteration, the seven are a 19th century-set disparate band of international warriors belonging to a centuries-old order who have lost their way. Their meeting with an Englishwoman being chased by an ancient evil is the catalyst for their redemption.

While the project is set in China, the warriors will be from locales near (the U.S.) and far (Russia), and each warrior will have a unique fighting style.

Gracey was an animator at Animal Logic, the company that worked on Happy Feet, before teaming up with a fellow visual effects artist to embark on a commercials career that led to award-winning spots for T-Mobile and Lipton.

Sources say that Gracey’s next step, after completing a deal, will to begin storyboarding the movie while designs of characters are made and fights are choreographed. The plan is to start production start next year. Gracey is repped by CAA, Partizan and Hirsch Wallerstein.

Relativity's still-untitled Snow White film, starring Lily Collins as Snow and Julia Roberts as the Evil Queen, is scheduled to be release on March 16. Universal's grittier Snow White and the Huntsman, starring Kristen Stewart, Chris Hemsworth and Charlize Theron, will hit theaters on June 1.

@PLUGO
02-10-2012, 05:41 PM
Saoirse Ronan To Play Lead In Disney’s “Not Snow White, Honest” Kung-Fu Flick, Order Of Seven (http://www.bleedingcool.com/2012/02/10/saoirse-ronan-play-lead-disneys-not-snow-white-honest-kungfu-flick-order-of-seven/)


If there’s one thing the film industry is definitely not wanting for at the moment, it’s adaptations of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves. Things got a bit ugly when Relativity Media and Universal Studios each began production on their own versions of the fairy tale, leading to both studios stepping their release dates forward in turn in an attempt to win the first wave of cinema-goers.

In the end it was Relativity who won out there, and so Mirror Mirror will be released on April 2nd with Universal’s Snow White And The Huntsman following on June 1st.

All of this was very bad news for Disney, who have had a martial arts take on the Snow White story in the works since 2002. Order of Seven, formerly Snow and the Seven, once had Natalie Portman slated to play the lead.

Recently, the project gained Australian commercial veteran Michael Gracey as a director and now, according to Variety, the lead role has now been given to Saoirse Ronan, most recently seen as a teenage assassin in Joe Wright’s fairy-tale infused thriller Hanna.

With the film market now saturated with Snow White movies, Disney have apparently decided to remove all overt reference to the fairy tale from the script, though the decision doesn’t seem to have changed the story much.

The first draft of the screenplay was written almost a decade ago by Josh Harman and Scott Elder, with Michael Chabon contributing a version in 2005, and the most recent incarnation was co-written by Jayson Rothwell and Michael Debruyn. The protagonist, whose name is

definitely not

Snow White but is now Olivia Sinclair, is a 19th century British expatriate living in Hong Kong, forced to seek refuse with a group of warriors (who are

definitely not

dwarves) from an ancient evil empress (who is

definitely not

an evil queen).

OK, so it’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarves. But the kung fu take is interesting and something we’ve not seen before, and we can’t exactly say that the movie is being rushed out for a quick buck.

GeneChing
02-13-2012, 10:36 AM
I had a feeling about her, not for this project specifically but for something, which is why we pursued an interview last year. See HANNA: The Girl Who Kicked Ass (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/ezine/article.php?article=956).


Posted: Fri., Feb. 10, 2012, 2:49pm PT
Saoirse Ronan to star in Disney's 'Seven' (http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118050075)
Long-gestating warrior project aims for international cast
By Marc Graser
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Saoirse Ronan is in final talks to star in Disney's "Order of Seven," a project that was originally developed as a Kung Fu retelling of "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs."

The pic has since been reworked as a standalone action adventure that's cut all ties to the classic tale. The Mouse House first began developing the project a decade ago.

Ronan would play Olivia Sinclair, a British expat in 19th century Hong Kong, who seeks the protection of a centuries old group of warriors, now a jaded group of outlaws. After the reemergence of an ancient evil empress, Sinclair helps the warriors reclaim their destiny and noble roots.

Disney hopes to boost the international appeal of the pic by casting the roles of the warriors with well-known stars in China, Russia and Japan, creating a global team of heroes. Studio execs have been making trips to those territories to begin talks with local talent.

Commercials helmer and visual effects supervisor Michael Gracey is set to make his directorial debut on the fantasy pic that Andrew Gunn is producing through his Disney- based Gunn Films banner ("Race to Witch Mountain," "Freaky Friday"). Production starts this fall.

The latest version of the script was written by Jayson Rothwell and Michael DeBruyn.

Project was originally penned by Michael Chabon, when it was set up as "Snow and the Seven" and incorporated more elements from "Snow White," including a murderous stepmother and magical mirror. Film has been in development at Disney since 2002.

In 2005, "The Matrix" trilogy and "Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon" fight choreographer Yuen Woo-ping was attached to direct. Since then, a number of directors have come and gone, including Francis Lawrence, along with scribes Michael Arndt ("Toy Story 3").

Natalie Portman had been circling the project when Lawrence was attached to direct.

Move away from "Snow White" should be smart for the Mouse House given that Relativity's "Mirror Mirror" and Universal's "Snow White and the Huntsman" are bowing this year.

Ronan ("Hanna") is a voice in "The Secret World of Arriety," that Disney is distributing for Studio Ghibli; is attached to Neil Jordan's vampire pic "Byzantium;" and will star in Andrew Niccol's "The Host," based on "Twilight" author Stephenie Meyer's novel.

GeneChing
03-30-2012, 08:56 AM
Read Snow White the Swordswoman? MIRROR, MIRROR (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/ezine/article.php?article=1035)

@PLUGO
05-23-2012, 11:50 AM
http://screenrant.com (http://screenrant.com/disney-snow-white-order-seven-delayed-sandy-173885/) writer Sandy Schaefer says:


Seeing how Disney expects to suffer a $200 million loss on John Carter, it’s no wonder the Mouse House has begun tightening its belt – and intends to scrutinize the budget for every film it has in development.

As a result, the company has halted pre-production on Order of the Seven. That project has previously gone by a handful of different names (including, Snow and the Seven and Order of Seven), but remains best known as Disney’s Snow White-inspired martial arts epic.

Most people tend to roll their eyes at the idea of another retelling of Snow White – which is understandable, after Mirror Mirror and next month’s Snow White and the Huntsman. However, Order of the Seven has been in some form of development for more than a decade.
The project was initiated by producer Andrew Gunn (Freaky Friday, Race to Witch Mountain) and was originally meant to be, as Heat Vision puts it, “a live-action kung fu take” on Snow White. That plan changed over the years as the script eventually evolved into a standalone fantasy adventure, after being worked on by such people as Michael Chabon (John Carter), Michael Arndt (Little Miss Sunshine), Hangover co-writing duo Jon Lucas and Scott Moore, Jayson Rothwell (Second in Command), newcomer Michael DeBruyn – and, most recently, Iron Man co-writers Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby.

Order of the Seven had originally been envisioned as a Natalie Portman vehicle. Earlier this year, though, Oscar-nominee Saoirse Ronan (Atonement, Hanna) was set to headline the film as a young 19th century Englishwoman who flees Hong Kong, in order to escape “an ancient evil empress” – and, thereafter, seeks refuge with “seven men belonging to an ancient order dedicated to fighting demons and dragons” (as was to be played by an all-star cast of international martial arts sensations).

lthough Order of the Seven had technically not been greenlit, the film was slated to begin production this summer – under visual effects supervisor Michael Gracey’s direction. Disney has halted all development work on the project, reportedly due to concerns over the budget (which is being kept under wraps).

Last year, Disney likewise hit the brakes on its Lone Ranger movie over concerns about the spiraling costs. However, whereas that western managed to get back on track fairly quickly – thanks in no small part to highly-bankable star Johnny Depp and director Gore Verbinski being attached – the personnel connected to Order of the Seven aren’t enough to ensure such a fast recovery. Hence, unless the budget is reworked to earn the approval of Disney heads, this project may continue to run in circles – similar to Ron Howard’s Dark Tower movie and Warner Bros.’ live-action Akira remake.

That would be kind of disappointing, seeing how Order of the Seven was starting to sound more interesting. Then again, given how long it’s lingered in development – and the number of people who’ve worked on the script over the years, this could’ve been (or still may be) the next Cowboys & Aliens - for better or worse.

GeneChing
06-01-2012, 11:02 AM
I had this fantasy of doing a trilogy of reviews:
Snow White the Swordswoman? MIRROR, MIRROR (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/ezine/article.php?article=1035)
Snow White the Swordswoman? SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN
Snow White the Swordswoman? SNOW AND THE SEVEN

Unfortunately, there wasn't a local screener for SW&TH. That's usually a bad sign.


Snow White unleashes her inner action hero (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/05/27/PKQ11OIJ2O.DTL)
Michael Ordoña
Sunday, May 27, 2012

Kristen Stewart plays Snow White as an action hero who trades in her crown for armor and a sword under the tutelage of a huntsman, played by Chris Hemsworth, in "Snow White and the Huntsman."

Once upon a time, it seemed not every Hollywood movie was based on a story for kids - a comic, a book series, something out of Grimm. But if, as some believe, there really are only seven or so stories in the world, even that belief was a fairy tale. Still, the familiar complaint that movie plots are too ... familiar is hard to rebut when the redoubtable Snow White falls on TV, direct-to-video and cineplex screens five times this year.

Why the fascination with a character best known as Disney's second most inactive princess (Sleeping Beauty retains that crown)? Since the Brothers Grimm collected it among other tales in 1812, her story has been retold in more forms than an Evil Queen can disguise herself in.

There have been more than 30 films, shorts and TV shows; essays and novels (A.S. Byatt, Angela Carter); short stories (Neil Gaiman); songs (the Cure, Rammstein); video games; and an anime ("Mario OVA" with Princess Peach as Snow White and King Koopa as the Evil Queen). There are even poems by Alexander Pushkin, Roald Dahl and Anne Sexton ("Beauty is a simple passion/ But, oh my friends, in the end/ You will dance the fire dance in iron shoes"). And as San Francisco theatergoers know, Snow is cool in the as-much-a-fixture-as-permafrost "Beach Blanket Babylon."

In the Christopher Booker reductionist view that only seven plots exist, her story best fits the "Overcoming the Monster" category. If the Snow White name conveys anything, it's purity. That's also purity of character design; she is traditionally uncomplicated. She is passive and good and eminently rescueable.

She's the one the serving suggestion says you're to root for even if her primary attributes are inertia and gullibility - in the original Grimm version, she gets tricked not once, but three times by the Evil Queen's prank gifts. "Fool me once, shame on you ... fool me twice, shame on me ..."

Interestingly, early versions of the tale have her at odds with not her wicked stepmother but her murderous mother - quite a different, more horrifying message. The heroine we all know has no such stain of insanity in her genes, nor such deep psychological scars.

Yet here Snow is again, and there, and there. It's practically a blizzard.

In ABC's "Once Upon a Time," Snow, Prince Charming, Rumplestiltskin and others populate the suspiciously named community of Storybrooke. If you've seen "Once," you may have seen it twice: Stipulated, "Once" is a supernatural soap opera in which many of the fairy-tale characters are unaware of their magical lives, but ABC also had a late-'80s series called "The Charmings," in which Snow and Prince live out a wacky modern suburban existence.

And that's without noting NBC's "Grimm," a police procedural in which fairy-tale refugees commit lots of crimes in Portland, Ore., which smacks a bit of "Night Stalker" and "X-Files."
Four new Snow White movies

Apart from the ABC show, there are no fewer than four new Snow White movies this year: April's "Mirror Mirror" and June's "Snow White and the Huntsman" in theaters, plus two direct-to-video extravaganzas, "Grimm's Snow White" and "Snow White: A Deadly Summer," which seems to exist, although there's precious little evidence of it.

According to Horror News.net, "Grimm's" features a blond Snow White, ravenous lizards, "giant hyena-dog-things and elf ninjas." And it was made by the folks behind "Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus," who clearly belong in a cinematic asylum. It has to be good.

"Deadly Summer" apparently has little connection to the fairy tale beyond the protagonist's name and a mean stepmother who has psychotic episodes involving a mirror (Maureen McCormick marshaling her inner evil). It's a slasher flick that looks from its trailer to be shot through egregious blue filters. Perhaps that's the filmmakers' clever, meta way of saying this is a metaphorical filter revealing the deeper meanings of ... no, actually, it just looks like an excuse to chop up teens at a discipline camp during fake nighttime.

The new theatrical features, however, refract the story through the lens of a more modern view of female strength. As if the studios had anticipated the current brouhaha over a "war on women," they magically have on their hands two movies about women who wage war in return. Here come the conspiracy theories!

In the beautifully designed "Mirror Mirror," the Audrey Hepburn-esque heroine (Lily Collins, daughter of Phil) meanders prettily through the Evil Queen's oppression of not just her but her entire kingdom (the 99 percent). Then she experiences a Buddha-like awakening to the plight of the poorest around her when finally free of the hypnotic trappings of palace luxury.

A band of diminutive, bullied outcasts teach her to fight back. Her transition from rose to thorn eventually means freedom for her people and acceptance for the dwarves. So for them, it gets better. And the film grossed more than $150 million worldwide in its first six weeks, so those on the business end lived happily ever after.

"Snow White and the Huntsman" did not screen in time for advance press, but from all indications depicts the heretofore inactive princess taking arms against a sea of troubles, on an epic scale. Kristen Stewart goes from vampires (in "Twilight") to witches (Charlize Theron as the Evil Queen) and a Thor-oughly hunky Huntsman (Chris Hemsworth) in another envisioning of Snow as warrior princess.

Evil Queen-slaying arts

Advance materials play up the action and remarkable visuals, with Snow escaping from prison and not being killed by the Huntsman, but being trained in the Evil Queen-slaying arts by him. This Snow White ditches the princess dress for black armor and sword.

If even this passive-figure-becomes-warrior-princess twist sounds familiar, it is: "Huntsman's" producer, Joe Roth, recently struck the billion-dollar bell with the "Lord of the Rings"-ish Tim Burton "Alice in Wonderland." It also resonates as another in Booker's handful of plots ("Voyage and Return" or "Rebirth").

Perhaps there really are only seven stories in the world.

Snow White and the Huntsman (PG-13) opens Friday at Bay Area theaters.
To see a trailer, go to snowwhiteandthehuntsman.com.


Non-crummy fairy-tale movies
Disney's animated stable contains some of the best-known fairy-tale movies, but here are others of note.

Classics

Jean Cocteau's "La Belle et La Bête" (1946) and Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's "The Red Shoes" (1948) are considered by some to be the greatest live-action films based on children's stories. The Cocteau placed No. 26 on Empire's 2010 list of 100 best films of world cinema. "Red Shoes" won two Oscars amid multiple nominations.

The five-film "Shrek" franchise is justly adored for marrying kids' excitement with sly humor for adults in its reimagining of well-known stories from other points of view.
Fractured, in a good way

"Freeway" (1996): Reese Witherspoon is a runaway teen stalked by Keifer Sutherland, a serial killer (Bob Wolverton), on her way to Grandma's house. Yep, it's a twisted twist on "Little Red Riding Hood": violent, sexual, weird. Two thumbs up! It's wickedly funny.

"The Company of Wolves" (1984): More shades of "Little Red Riding Hood," this time using wolves and transformation as metaphors for sexuality. It's as dark as the woods, and full of frightening creatures - and its intelligence is thick as the trees. Highly recommended.

"Pretty Woman" (1990): It has its charms, although a more realistically cast hooker-as-Cinderella tale would switch Julia Roberts and Richard Gere with Juno Temple and Philip Seymour Hoffman.

Their own stories

"The Princess Bride" (1987): The most quotable film on this list also may be simply the best. Rob Reiner's film of William Goldman's book captures the wonder of bedtime stories at their best, with a great script, top-notch cast (including Mandy Patinkin, Billy Crystal and Christopher Guest) and superb sword fighting. A classic.

"Legend" (1985): Ridley Scott, unicorns, Tom Cruise, the lovely Mia Sara and Tim Curry in awesome demon makeup. Looks great; that's about it.

GeneChing
06-01-2012, 11:03 AM
Sounds like I didn't miss much.


'Snow White and the Huntsman' review: Dwarfed (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/06/01/DDI71OPIM0.DTL)
Mick LaSalle
Friday, June 1, 2012

SNOOZING VIEWER

Action drama. Starring Kristen Stewart, Chris Hemsworth and Charlize Theron. Directed by Rupert Sanders. (PG-13. 127 minutes. At Bay Area theaters.)

Fairy tales have an eerie way of saying more than they say and meaning more than we know. They're like the presentable face of the unconscious, suggesting darker terrors; and because they touch on something primal, they last forever - as opposed to really bad Kristen Stewart movies, which last a season at most.

In this latter category, we find "Snow White and the Huntsman," which takes everything mythic about "Snow White" and pounds it out until it's flat and dead. It takes something whose truth is elusive and turns it into a movie that's obvious and trivial. The fairy tale becomes an action movie, and Snow White achieves her apotheosis as a military leader. The fairest of them all is full of righteous anger and wants to kill people.

But how is Kristen Stewart as the fairy tale heroine? The truth is that she's irrelevant, just an element in flimsy design that's fleshing out an empty idea. Watch her in close-up, doing her best to think her way through the part, to add a human element. She's trapped and going nowhere. In his first feature film, director Rupert Sanders runs to the security and comfort of the literal - and ends up directing every performance in a narrow, naturalistic way. For a movie that has its roots and life in a fairy tale, this approach is deadly.

Only one scene springs to life, one in which Snow White wakes up in an enchanted forest and walks around, looking on as little white fairies pop out of birds, ride on top of tortoises and hide behind flowers. Sanders films Stewart in an extreme close-up, then turns his camera on the forest and lets his special-effects people work their magic. The result is a fantastic little oasis that has nothing to do with the plot and yet everything to do with what this movie might have been, but isn't.

"Snow White and the Huntsman" has a single innovation, hardly something to build a movie around, and that's the emphasis on the Huntsman as a key character. Here he's played by Chris Hemsworth, an actor that you can tell is Australian without checking, simply by the fact that he seems like a grown man, and yet he's still in his 20s (i.e., the Heath Ledger effect). The Huntsman becomes Snow White's protector, a hard-drinking, hard-fighting tough guy with some real sadness in his past. Yet strangely - especially in a movie that goes on forever - the story of his relationship with Snow White feels curtailed.

"Snow White and the Huntsman" suffers from a problem in its rhythm. It's not that its pace is too slow, but that it's too regular, and this lack of syncopation makes it feel slow. Every event is given equal importance. And so, when a dwarf dies - a character the audience barely cares about - this becomes a death scene, followed by a funeral, followed by an elegiac song.

Most disheartening of all is the realization that sinks in very soon that you're watching an action movie that can only resolve in a series of battle scenes. So everything weird, everything internal and everything magical about the story and the characters must be suppressed, and we're left with a movie that could have been about anybody. By the time Stewart appears in a suit of armor, like Joan of Arc, exhorting her people to do battle, like Henry V, this film has gone off the rails, down the mountain and into a ravine.

As the Evil Queen, Charlize Theron is this accident's lone survivor. Here the director's naturalistic approach works, in that the queen, as a role, is juicy enough to lend itself to psychological nuance. Theron makes her genuinely twisted and diabolical and yet recognizably human in her self-pity and narcissism.

But she has a very peculiar mirror. Indeed, the whole conflict in "Snow White and the Huntsman" could have been avoided had the mirror only told the truth. When the mirror says, and with a straight face, that Stewart and not Theron is the fairest of them all, he was clearly just making trouble.

doug maverick
06-01-2012, 11:29 AM
i actually hope this film does well, so disney can start up snow and the seven again...mirror mirror bombed so hard nobody wants to find it(n***a's in paris joke-hey this song got frances president elected it should be referenced for jokes..lol) so if this one succeeds disney will be inclined to start it up..if it bombs they'll be happy to avoid it.

GeneChing
06-01-2012, 12:55 PM
It was a shame about Mirror Mirror because it was actually enjoyable, especially if you're into Tarsem Singh. As for Disney stopping S&t7 because John Carter (http://ezine.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?t=63293) tanked, well, Avengers (http://ezine.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?t=62042) falls under the Disney umbrella so I don't know what they're moaning about.

doug maverick
06-02-2012, 11:16 AM
well with avengers...remember there is alot of profit sharing going on there robert downey stands to make 100million and sam jackson isnt to far behind him...both of them have giant backend deals with marvel...also marvel even thou its owned by disney still operates on its own...much like pixar and miramax did...so there is that... avengers was 200 million plus advertising lets call it a cool 275-300m. its earned over a billion dollars... disney probably gets half that... so 500million minus 300 million equals 200million, which was the cost of john carter...john carter was 200million plus another 50 in promo. factor in foreign sales which in all honesty probably recouped the budget...and disney comes out with about 50million....theyll make way more on the dvds of both films...so add dvd, ppv, and cable... probably puts them around 150million in black.


lol...i could write a paper on it..lol


anyway in better news looks like snow white and the huntsmen is going to be a smash...so we may see "the order of the seven"



Jun 2 2012 01:15 PM ET

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Box office update: 'Snow White and the Huntsman' leads with $20.3 mil on Friday; 'The Avengers' becomes third biggest movie of all time
by John Young
Tags: Box Office, Charlize Theron, Chris Hemsworth, Kristen Stewart, Movie Biz, Snow White and the Huntsman, News

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No poison apple here. The action fairy tale Snow White and the Huntsman debuted to a solid $20.3 million on Friday, according to early estimates, and is headed for a $55 million weekend.

That should come as a relief to Universal Pictures, which released the floundering Battleship two weeks ago. The result is also a boon for star Kristen Stewart, who had yet to successfully open a movie outside the Twilight franchise. Still, Snow White arrived with a pricey $170 million budget and will need to also perform admirably overseas to justify its cost.

The PG-13 film received an okay “B” rating from CinemaScore audiences, of which 53 percent was female — a surprisingly low figure for a movie many assumed would skew heavily female. According to CinemaScore, 48 percent of ticket buyers listed “Actress in a lead role” as their reason for seeing Snow White, which could refer to either Stewart or Charlize Theron. However, 34 percent also checked off “Actor in a lead role,” meaning Universal was wise to increase the marketing exposure of costar Chris Hemsworth.

Among holdovers, Men in Black 3 dropped 53 percent for $8.3 million, and should finish the weekend with about $29 million. That’ll bring its two-week tally to $112 million. By comparison, Men in Black and Men in Black II had made $139.6 million and $132.7 million after two weekends. To be fair, though, those movies had a head start by opening on a Wednesday, whereas Men in Black 3 did not.

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In third, The Avengers fell 42 percent to $5.7 million. On Friday, the Disney movie passed The Dark Knight‘s $533.3 million tally to become the third-highest-grossing domestic release of all time, behind only Avatar ($760.5 million) and Titanic ($658.6 million including its 3-D re-release). And while The Avengers should have no problem reaching $600 million, it’ll likely fall short of toppling either James Cameron picture. Disney also announced today that The Avengers passed Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — Part 2 to become the third biggest movie globally. So far the superhero flick has collected $1.33 billion worldwide.

Rounding out the top five were Battleship and The Dictator with $1.4 million and $1.39 million, respectively. The two movies will fight for fourth place, along with the British comedy The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, which earned $1.3 million yesterday at 1,294 theaters. Check back here on Sunday for the complete box office report.

1. Snow White and the Huntsman — $20.3 mil
2. Men in Black 3 — $8.3 mil
3. The Avengers — $5.7 mil
4. Battleship — $1.4 mil
5. The Dictator — $1.39 mil

GeneChing
12-21-2012, 01:11 PM
A sequel? Man, I still haven't seen the first one. Not that I've been planning to do so.

There's actually a lot more to this interview. I only cut&pasted the first part of page three which was about Snow. There's a lot more about Kristen's sex scenes in On the Road. She say **** an awful lot. Follow the link if that interests you.

Honor Roll 2012: Kristen Stewart Goes 'On the Road' to Find Sex, Dancing and -- Just Maybe -- an Award (http://www.indiewire.com/article/honor-roll-2012-kristen-stewart-sex-dancing-on-the-road-awards?page=3#articleHeaderPanel)

OK, but to play devil’s advocate: where are you going to go with your character in a “Snow White” sequel?

Oh, it’s gonna be ****in’ amazing. No, I’m so excited about it, it’s crazy.

Can you give me a hint of where it goes?

I’m not allowed. The other day I said that there was a strong possibility that we’re going to make a sequel, and that’s very true, but everyone was like, “Whoa, stop talking about it.” So no, I’m totally not allowed to talk about it.

But it’s fair to say that there are ideas that have been discussed that totally justify it for you.

Oh my God. ****, yeah. Absolutely. And we’ve got a really amazing… [smiles] So, yeah. It’s all good. [laughs]

GeneChing
02-05-2013, 11:01 AM
The Princess and the Seven Kung Fu Masters now has a facebook page. :rolleyes:

facebook page: 笑功震武林 (https://www.facebook.com/7kungfumaster)

trailer: 笑功震武林 官方預告片 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phEpeWTyBDo)

Sammo + Wong Jing promises to be uber silly in that caricature HK way. ;)

GeneChing
03-23-2016, 11:26 AM
So I finally saw Snow White and the Huntsman. It wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be. It's all about Charlize as the evil queen. She's a great vampy villainess, a redux of Michelle Pfieffer's witch in Stardust. There are some amusing nods to the Disney version and lots of sword fights (which are mediocre at best) and plenty of CGI effects. On the whole, it takes itself way to seriously trying to be the next LotR (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/ezine/article.php?article=1076) franchise. It's a fantasy world where the regal don't 'got **** all over them' and everyone else does. Liam is Thor - I just can't get past that. Kristen Stewart is again the object of attention for two hunky guys. When in Cadaques, we saw Catch That Kid (2004), starring a coquettish Kristen caught between two dudes again. She was good in that, btw. It's a totally dumb Disney flick, featured Corbin Bleu, a black kid with a huge 'fro that Disney was trying to push back then. The story is the three kids are trying to rob a super bank safe which is more guarded that Magneto's cell. It certainly set the tone for Kristen's Twilight menage a trois, and this - totally ironic as she's come out gay since - perhaps that is what those early casting directors saw in her. I just can't get past her buck teeth. So there are tiresome Liam/Kristen scenes that you just want to fast forward over, some armored battle sword fights that are mediocre, and some great Charlize vamping it up scenes. Just watch the Charlize scenes are you're good.

Prequel might be good. Looks like more Charlize, plus Emily Blunt....and Thor too, but whatev... seeing how it looks more like the Snow Queen, I just gotta 'let it go'.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9cPxenX1-0

I'm still holding out for Snow and the Seven. It would be best if that was directed by Stephen Chow. ;)

GeneChing
03-05-2024, 10:55 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEzwApY2fhs