Snow White and the Huntsman

[Zarq]

I honestly don't know what to expect of this. The director is completely unknown, I'm not really fond of Kristen Stewart and the recent Red Riding Hood re-imagination was pretty bad. But then I saw the trailer and it looked like it could be pretty entertaining if they handle it correctly. And it has Charlize Theron as main villain. Nick Frost also has a (I assume small) role.

Anybody else have thoughts on this?

edit: One of the writer's was the main writer for Drive, the main art director worked on the Harry Potter films and Batman films, costume design is by the woman who did the costume design for Sweeney Todd (among others).

[EdgarJPublius]

It does seem to have a lot of the components of a good movie, and I generally like to support unknown directors. I just hope he can assemble all those components correctly.

[Izawwlgood]

Just to point out Zarq, the rewrite on Little Red Ridinghood was directed by the same shlock who directed the Twilight movies. So... The whole 'dangerous emotionally unavailable boyfriends are teh sexy' was a pretty prevalent theme. And to be fair, Amanda Seigfried was pretty cool in that shitty flick.

[Jesse]

What's up with two Snow White adaptations appearing at the same time?

[Angua]

I wondered that.

However, fairy tales seem to be in at the moment - the US has two tv series that started this season (Once Upon a Time and Grimm), so maybe that's why.

[charliepanayi]

What's up with two Snow White adaptations appearing at the same time?

It seems to happen from time to time. See Deep Impact + Armageddon in the late 90s, also the two Mars films back in the early 2000s (both terrible) and Antz/A Bug's Life in the late 90s (both pretty good).

[SecondTalon]

What's up with two Snow White adaptations appearing at the same time?

Some schmuck shopped a good script around about the thing to two different studios who both said "Thanks, but no thanks" then got their in-house teams to crank one out.

[maybeagnostic]

...then got their in-house teams to crank one out.

And at least in the case of 'Mirror Mirror' the team turned out something pretty terrible. That movie had a few really good scenes and very pleasant visuals throughout but the story felt very disjointed and the pacing was way off. I enjoyed it while I was watching it but no part of it felt particularly tense or interesting. A week later I only remember two scenes from the whole movie and one of them is the song in the credits.

My expectations for The Huntsman (based almost entirely on the exciting but quite generic trailer) are even lower than for Mirror Mirror. Besides pulling off a cute fairy tale comedy should be simpler than an action-packed medieval warfare... thing. I somehow doubt they are going for a full-blown war and revolutionary struggle movie with The Huntsman but that is the impression I got from the trailer.

[EdgarJPublius]

What's up with two Snow White adaptations appearing at the same time?

Fairy tales are very zeitgeisty right now and there are a limited number of Disney movies to make gritty adaptations of.

[UniqueScreenname]

My enjoyment of this will come from my love for Charlize Theron hopefully outshining my hatred for Kristen Stewart. Only time will tell.