What'll be genuinely interesting to see in these two movie adaptations is how they handle the malevolent figure of the Queen. It's the Queen that powers the Walt Disney version, and it's the toxic relationship between the Queen and her daughter/step-daughter Snow White that gives the story its dramatic tension. So far, Once Upon A Timehasn't done much with this, but the trailers for Mirror, Mirror and Snow White and the Huntsman suggest this'll be a big theme — as well it should be, because this is probably where contemporary versions could really take the story interesting places.
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