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Okay, I’m in full-fledged fantasy-dork mode now after watching the really excellent first trailer for the upcoming film Snow White & the Huntsman. The film has a bunch of big names including Kristen Stewart of Twilight fame as Snow White, Charlize Theron as the Queen, and Chris Hemsworth (Thor) as the Huntsman.
Others in the cast include Ian McShane, Eddie Izzard, Bob Hoskins, Toby Jones and Ray Winstone.
Oh, and it’s got big, scary looking monsters in it, too:
I admit I didn’t watch Thor and have never watched the Twilight films so both Kristen Stewart and Chris Hemsworth, while familiar faces, are essentially new to me.
Both roles look fantastic. The Huntsman gets to run around with double axes, while Snow White – far from the Disneyfied version we’ve all grown accustomed to – spends a good deal of the film decked out in full armor looking for all the world like a fantastical Joan of Arc. The Huntsman, threatened with death, is sent to track down and kill Snow White but becomes her mentor instead, helping her train in the art of war in order to defeat the Queen.
Just out of curiosity, what’s that big-ass beast-looking thing in the woods that we see in the trailer? I was curious about that.
DAUGHERTY: Ah, yes. I dunno if I should say. I dunno what I’m on radio-silence on. It’s…I’ll say this: that’s a critical moment in Snow White’s progression from where she starts at the beginning on the road to become the armored Snow White we see at the end of the trailer.
But one of the great things about this sort of project—and one of the reasons I think they wanted to make it—was that this movie isn’t just about Snow White. It’s called Snow White and The Huntsman, because you’ve got Kristen Stewart being mentored by Chris Hemsworth, who’s sort of doing his badass Thor thing. But instead of hammers, he’s got axes. So, I think the teaser kind of speaks for itself. I think it’s kind of a tough, muscular, gritty…and, by the way, I’ve visited the set, and I can tell you that this is a pretty badass Kristen Stewart that you haven’t seen before.
D I think the teaser did a pretty decent job of showing that it was a different take on the story, for sure. When you were writing, did you have anyone in mind for the part of Snow White? If you were writing or back in 2003, surely you weren’t thinking of Kristen Stewart for the role back then, right?
DAUGHERTY: Not really. That was more in the era of Keira Knightley, but funnily enough, and I think I was telling this to Kristen, but…I wrote Snow White shortly after Panic Room came out. And when we were just hanging around the dorms with my buddies talking about the movie, I think I did say that Kristen Stewart would be good for the role. Obviously, she’d need to be a little older, but it would take a few years to get the movie made. I mean, that was her first big thing—Jodie Foster’s daughter in Panic Room.
Ashley Greene is flying high this fall!
After she finishes promoting Breaking Dawn: Part 1 ahead of its November 18 premiere, she’ll be guest-starring on ABC’s new series “Pan Am.”
A rep for the 1960s period drama tells Gossip Cop Greene will do a three-episode arc on the show, beginning December 4, in which she’ll play the role of a debutante.