Disney abandons their Snow White project

Perhaps coming to their senses after realising there were already two separate Snow White films out this year (!), Disney have abandoned their plans to make a version of the tale. According to Deadline, the Mouse House has nixed Order of the Seven, in which Saoirse Ronan was to play the lead. The pic differentiated from playful Mirror Mirror and […]

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Saoirse Ronan will play Snow White too

For reasons not totally clear to anyone, Snow White is suddenly the hottest property in Hollywood.  Not only are two Snow White flicks hitting cinemas this year – Mirror Mirror starring Lily Collins, and Snow White and the Huntsman starring Kristen Stewart – but Saoirse Ronan is now in talks to star in a film inspired by the same […]

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Tarsem’s Snow White renamed Mirror, Mirror

Relativity Media’s untitled Snow White project finally has a title. Slashfilm confirms the Tarsem Singh directed film will be called Mirror, Mirror. Many comparisons have been made between Singh’s take on the classic Snow White story (starring Lily Collins) and Universal’s Snow White and the Huntsman (starring Kristen Stewart) also currently in production. Singh told […]

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Sean Bean cast in The Brothers Grimm: Snow White

Remember that other film about Snow White? The one that doesn’t star Kristen Stewart and Chris Hemsworth? No? Well, anyway, Sean Bean (Game of Thrones) has been cast as The King in that one (better known as Tarsem Singh‘s The Brothers Grimm: Snow White).  According to Variety, Bean is in final negotiations to appear in the film as […]

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McShane, Izzard, Hoskins to play Snow White’s dwarves

A bunch of our favourite character actors are in talks to star as dwarves in Rupert Sanders’ Snow White and the Huntsman – although not as the dwarves we know and love.  According to The Hollywood Reporter, Ian McShane will play dwarf leader Caesar. HeatVision, meanwhile, have the scoop that Eddie Izzard, Bob Hoskins, Toby Jones, Stephen Graham […]

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Two Jeff Buckley biopics compete for your attention

It looks like ‘Jeff Buckley’ is the new ‘Snow White‘. Last week it was revealed that ‘Lonely Boy’ Penn Badgley had been cast as Buckley in an upcoming biopic (today confirmed by Deadline). However, he will not be the ONLY Buckley hitting cinemas in the coming year. We incorrectly reported that Badgley had been cast […]

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Hugh Jackman to play Snow White’s Huntsman?

There are so many Snow White projects/fairy-tale revivals in the works at the moment it’s impossible to keep up. According to Deadline, Hugh Jackman has been offered the role of “the Huntsman” in, umm, one of them. More accurately, he is being considered for Snow White and The Huntsman, which already has Kristen Stewart attached […]

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Channing Tatum to star as Peter Pan

Sony has won the bidding war for the not so cleverly titled Peter Pan origin story Pan, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The latest in a string of re-imagined fairy tales including Snow White and Little Red Riding Hood, Pan will star Channing Tatum (who in my opinion grows less appealing with each passing day). […]

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Universal want Kristen Stewart for Snow White; Viggo Mortensen for Huntsmen

We heard in December that Relativity Media’s The Brothers’ Grimm: Snow White was in competition with Universal’s Snow White and the Huntsman. Already pitting Charlize Theron and Julia Roberts against one another for the role of the Evil Queen, we wondered then who might Hollywood have pegged for the other two leading roles: the dashing […]

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>Snow White and the two Evil Queens

>It seems Charlize Theron and Julia Roberts are up against one another in a duelling studio search for the wickedest Evil Queen in all of tinseltown. Universal Pictures’ production of Snow White and the Huntsman is up against Relativity Media’s The Brothers Grimm: Snow White in a race to cinema screens, Deadline report. Theron is […]

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