Snow White

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Looks like Fairytales are making a comeback.

 

With Tim Burton's new take on "Alice in Wonderland" proving such a hit this year, fairy tale films are coming back in style and now "Rush Hour" director Brett Ratner is setting up a new adaptation of "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" over at Relativity Media reports Deadline.

 

This new take, entitled simply "Snow White", is being penned by Melisa Wallack ("Meet Bill") and sounds like it will be closer in tone to the original Grimm Brothers stories than Disney's toddler-friendly 1938 animated adaptation.

 

Ratner says "Melisa went back to the 500 year old folk tale and put in some of the things that were missing from Walt Disney's film. His dwarves were miners, and here they are robbers. There is also a dragon that was in the original folk tale. Walt made one of the great movies of all time, but ours is edgy and there is more comedy. The original, made for its time, was soft compared to what we're going to do."

 

Aside from Disney, at least half a dozen adaptations of "Snow White" have been made over the years. Ratner's idea sounds like it'll be halfway between the Disney film and the Michael Cohn-directed 1997 feature "Snow White: A Tale of Terror", a gothic horror interpretation which scored Sigourney Weaver both an Emmy and a SAG nomination for her performance.

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Tarsem Singh, directing of visually striking films like "The Fall" and "The Cell", has been offered the job of directing a re-telling of the classic fairy tale "Snow White" setup at Relativity Media reports Vulture.

 

Melisa Wallack ("Meet Bill") penned this new adaptation of the classic Grimm Brothers story which is said to hew much closer in tone to that darker work than Disney's more buoyant animated classic. The dwarves for example are thieves in this version which Brett Ratner is attached to produce. Singh is currently at work on the Greek epic "Immortals" for Relativity.

 

This project is not to be confused with two rival "Snow White" tales in development. The first is "Snow White and the Huntsman" at Universal Pictures which Rupert Sanders is set to direct and focuses more on Snow's relationship with the Queen's servant. The other is Disney's "Snow and the Seven" which is set in British colonial China which Francis Lawrence ("Constantine") has been linked to.