Koepp Pens "Huntsman 2"

We may be some 5 weeks away from the June 1st release of Snow White and the Huntsman....But suits at Universal are betting the film will be enough of a money maker to warrant a sequel.

The first pic saw Hossein Amini rewriting original scribe Evan Daugherty's take pn the classic fairy tale which also had 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.

Now we find out that David Koepp is in talks to work on writing the new script says Deadline.

The studio is hoping to fast track the project with the first film's director Rupert Sanders meaning that it would be the next film he does.