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Is Hollywood ready to take a new bite out of the Snow White apple?
Since yesterday, “Snow White and the Huntsman,” a new take on the classic fairy tale from scribe Evan Daugherty, director Rupert Sanders and producer Joe Roth has been making the rounds at the studios, reports The Hollywood Reporter.
The only studio sitting out of the visual presentation roadshow by Sanders and company is Disney, which already has its own Snow White project, “Snow and the Seven.”
The project already has a couple of offers but no one is being invited into the castle until the process is done, which should be by Wednesday.
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.
The billion-dollar success of Disney’s “Alice in Wonderland” (which Roth produced) has sent studios and production companies scouring the public-domain tales of yore.
Disney is developing retellings of both Sleeping Beauty, via an Angelina Jolie-Tim Burton project called “Maleficent,” and Cinderella. Warners is putting on a new coat on Little Red Riding Hood.