Friday, August 12, 2011

London Riots No Problem For Huntsman

Universal Pictures is denying reports that the London riots interrupted production on "Snow White and the Huntsman" according to The Hollywood Reporter.

The production is currently filming outside of London at the famed Pinewood Studios. The lot is located 20 miles out London's SoHo neighborhood and eight miles from Heathrow Airport.

The chatter of a shutdown began due to a now disregarded tweet which said "They JUST stopped #SnowWhite prep work until riots die down".

 

Hossein Amini rewrote original scribe Evan Daugherty's version of the classic fairy tale with Evan Spiliotopoulos taking a crack at it The story expands the role of the Huntsman (Chris Hemsworth). Ordered to take the evil Queen's (Charlize Theron) stepdaughter Snow White (Kristen Stewart) into the woods and kill her, The Huntsman instead lets her go and becomes something of a mentor who teaches her how to fight and survive.

Sam Claflin plays the Prince while Ian McShane is Caesar, the leader of the dwarfs. with--Ray Winstone Bob Hoskins Toby Jones Nick Frost and Steven Graham round them out--Liberty Ross and Noah Huntley will play the parents of Snow while Lily Cole and Sam Spruell also star.

Rupert Sanders will call action for producer Joe Roth

Snow White and the Huntsman is scheduled to open June 1, 2012

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