Universal and Relativity Media have been rivaling their Snow White-based films for a while now. Snow White & the Huntsman stars Kristen Stewart (The Twilight Saga) as the title heroine of the forest, and Lily Collins (Abduction) plays the lead The Brothers Grimm: Snow White. However, the movie we originally reported that Disney was developing was called Snow & the Seven, but director Francis Lawrence (I Am Legend, Water for Elephants) has abandoned the project that has been in the works since 2002, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
With visual effects director Michael Gracey (Ned Kelly) on board to direct, the film is now called Order of the Seven. Snow White as a character is being minimized since the movie is evolving more into an action film, focusing on “the seven [who] are a 19th century-set disparate band of international warriors belonging to a centuries-old order who have lost their way. Their meeting with an Englishwoman being chased by an ancient evil is the catalyst for their redemption.”
This seems like a vast improvement of a storyline which originally centered around the young beauty learning to be a warrior under the dwarfs instruction. THR also reports that “While the project is set in China, the warriors will be from locales near (the U.S.) and far (Russia), and each warrior will have a unique fighting style.”
Even though production is still at the very early stages here, do you think that this can rival against Snow White & the Huntsman or The Brothers Grimm: Snow White, which are both currently in-production? Do the dwarves stand a chance at carrying their own action movie?
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