Snow White: Viggo Mortensen out of ‘Snow White and the Huntsman,’ Armie Hammer and Saoirse Ronan for ‘The Brothers Grimm: Snow White’
Posted on Sunday, March 27th, 2011 by Russ Fischer
And now Relativity Media has pulled ahead in the Snow White race. The company and Universal have been neck and neck in development of competing Snow White movies over the past six months. Relativity has Tarsem Singh directing The Brothers Grimm: Snow White, which had only one primary cast member locked: Julia Roberts, who will play the evil queen.
Universal seemed to be further along with Snow White and the Huntsman, with Rupert Sanders set to direct Kristen Stewart as Snow White, Charlize Theron as the evil queen and Viggo Mortensen in talks for the titular Huntsman. But now Viggo has dropped out, reportedly because he was asking for a pretty hefty deal. (THR says that the Snow White discussions have been problematic and that, yes, at one point Viggo did talk with WB about being in Superman. That didn’t work out either, as Superman director Zack Snyder said last week.) There is some slight indication that things could move forward once again, but THR says that Universal is moving on. So expect to hear a new Huntsman choice soon.
After the break, Relativity locks down two stars for Tarsem’s The Brothers Grimm: Snow White — Armie Hammer and Saoirse Ronan. Read More »
