Live Action "Snow White" Film Coming

[lugnut33]

Saw this in the news, but I'm not sure it's even tied to Disney like this first article insinuates:

Heigh-hi, heigh-hi, it's off to work Armie Hammer goes in 'Snow White.'

'The Social Network' star has been given the throne as the film's prince, according to The Hollywood Reporter. His beautiful Disney princess has yet to be cast. America's sweetheart Julia Roberts is tapping into a darker side of herself as the evil queen.

The cast is set to whistle while they work when shooting begins in May. The Disney classic will hit theaters in June 2012.

Second article:

Armie Hammer is a real prince charming…literally.

The Social Network star is set to play the coveted role of Snow White's handsome prince in Relativity Media's upcoming Snow White feature, a source confirmed to E! News.

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Hammer will join Julia Roberts in the film, who signed on as the Evil Queen in February.

While the flick is scheduled to start shooting in May, according to the Hollywood Reporter, the actress who will snag the role of Snow White is still up in the air.

And a third article:

Armie Hammer will be turning on the charm as the handsome prince in one of the dueling Snow White movies currently in production, according to Relativity Films. Hammer, currently shooting Clint Eastwood’s J. Edgar Hoover biopic with Leonardo DiCaprio, has joined the film starring Julia Roberts as the classic folktale’s Evil Queen. Best known for playing the Winklevoss twins in The Social Network, Hammer won’t play Prince Charming, but rather a character named Prince Albert Alcott.

At one point, Saoirse Ronan (The Lovely Bones, the upcoming Hanna) was in consideration for the lead role of Snow White, according to a source close to the production, but with the casting of 24-year-old Hammer, it is unlikely the 16-year-old Ronan will fit with the film.
Director Tarsem Singh (The Cell, Immortals) said casting Roberts as the queen was the pivotal role around which all the others revolved. “I just said, ‘What I want is the Queen, because that dictates how old Snow White is,’” he said in an earlier interview. “There’s a lot of banter between the prince and the queen and the person who is Snow White. So I knew the tough situation there was, if I went with Snow White, and went really young with her, and I got a queen who was much older, it would be really hard to play a comedy love-triangle with the prince because he could come off as pedophilic on one side and oedipal on the other. Now that we have the queen, I’m going 21-ish for Snow White and late 20s for the Prince, so the [love triangle] joke can still be played.”

The movie starts shooting in May with plans for a June 29, 2012 debut. Another film, Snow White and the Huntsman, is in pre-production at Universal and has Kristen Stewart in the lead with Charlize Theron as the queen. Viggo Mortensen was in talks for the role of the huntsman, who abandons his mission to kill Snow White and instead becomes her protector, but The Lord of the Rings star has reportedly bowed out. That film is set to debut in late December 2012.

 

[lttlmc3]

Blah, I don't like the idea of Kristen Stewart as Snow White.

 

[sayhello]

Blah, I don't like the idea of Kristen Stewart as Snow White.

If there was any actress in that age group who would be the anti-Snow White, it would be Kristen Stewart. There's nothing snow white about her! Blech.

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[YukiPhnx]

Interesting....Well Amanda Bynes was in that Snow White parody "Sydney White". It was really good.

 

[SoScary'09]

Thanks for the news, but I just can't get excited about this one.