Another One Makes It Four Versions On The Go At Once – Dracula Is The New Snow White

02/27/2012

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We thought we were getting our fill of Dracula with two new movies in the works, but we were wrong. Because actually, there are four potential movies trying to make their way to the big screen that are based on Bram Stoker’s legendary vampire.

Just to recap: Warner Bros is talking to Russell Crowe about doing Harker for director Jaume Collet-Serra, while Universal resurrected once-dead Alex Proyas-Sam Worthington origin tale Dracula: Year Zero for new director Gary Shore. Now Deadline is reporting that the two will have even more stiff competition, one from horror master Guillermo del Toro and another from two parties already well versed in same-subject battles.

Deadline says Del Toro is readying an adaptation of his own contemporary novel trilogy, which began with The Strain and concluded in last October’s The Night Eternal. Del Toro will jump on the trilogy after completing big budget alien action flickPacific Rim.

Meanwhile, the writer of Snow White tale Mirror Mirror and the producers behind Snow White and the Huntsman have apparently put aside their differences, and will team up on another period origin tale of Dracula for Sony Pictures.

Read the rest here via Bleeding Cool

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‘Snow White and the Huntsman’ to Channel ‘Lord of the Rings’?

07/27/2011

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Two Snow White films are currently racing to the big screen, and the latter film to be released, “Snow White and the Huntsman” showed off its cast and producers during a Hall H presentation at Comic-Con Saturday afternoon. Even though production has yet to start, stars Charlize Theron, Kristen Stewart, Chris Hemsworth and Sam Claflin were on hand to talk about their characters and show off initial costume fittings.
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SWATH Included in SanDiego.com's Coverage of Comic-Con Day #3!

07/27/2011

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"...The Universal Pictures panel followed, presenting the first look at the cast and concept art of Snow White and the Huntsman. As large crowds piled into the auditorium, the moderator introduced first-time film director Rupert Sanders, presenting a reel of his previous work on video game commercials to perk the audience’s excitement for this freshman filmmaker. Sanders has an obvious eye for camera movement and actor blocking, as witnessed in his superbly crafted Halo 3 and Call of Duty spots. Hollywood producer Joe Roth (Alice in Wonderland) accompanied Sanders, telling the crowd the filmmakers “want to make the definitive version of the Grimm’s Fairy Tale, on a scale of Lord of the Rings.” 

Cheers erupted when the attractive cast strutted onto stage, including Thor’s Chris Hemsworth, Charlize Theron, and Twilight’s Kristen Stewart. The film hasn’t even begun shooting yet, so Sanders and Roth depended heavily on concept art with the actors in costume to create buzz about the film’s prospects. A low budget (by Hollywood standards) test short film directed by Sanders also showed his tonal intent with the material, which looks like an impressionist cross between the visual styles of Zach Snyder and Tarsem Singh. Sanders confirmed his desire for a moody approach by saying, “It’s not going to be a little girl sitting by a well with tweety birds.”

Luckily, the panel saved the best for last. One of the final images shown was of the “eight dwarfs” lined up in battle garb, an impressive group played by the likes of Ray Winstone, Eddie Marsan, Ian McShane, and Nick Frost just to name a few. “This is my version of a British SAS squad,” Sanders hilariously mused, rousing the crowd one last time before departing the stage. We should all get ready for some revisionist fairytale mythology to be released in summer 2012..."


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Sandiego.com
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