Comic-Con may be over but what we saw in San Diego is a strong indication that the box office will continue to take a beating from the superheroes, fairy tales and other high concept offerings over the next year or so. Despite all the talk about studios staying away this year, the convention was still a major circus and the films that did show up tried to grab some positive attention from the notoriously fickle crowd. As transparent as the marketing and pandering can get, especially during the panels where all cast and crew have been coached on exactly which topics to hit and which to avoid in order to stay on the good side of fanboys and girls, the whole thing still kind of works. This writer went into Saturday’s panel for Universal‘s “Snow White & The Huntsman” with next to no interest in it and damn if it didn’t end up winning him over, along with the rest of the packed crowd inside Hall H.
The film, a dark twist on the classic fairy tale, will be the feature debut of British commercial helmer Rupert Sanders and features “Thor“‘s Chris Hemsworth as the Huntsman, Charlize Theron as the Evil Queen, ‘Pirates 4’‘s Sam Claflin as the Prince and Kristen Stewart as Snow White herself. Since the film doesn’t start shooting until next week, there wasn’t any official footage to show but the filmmakers did bring along a reel of Sanders’ commercial work, some images of the cast in costume (which you can look at here) and perhaps most effectively, a “stylistic piece” teaser assembled by the director just in time for Comic-Con. Rupert Sanders was on hand with cast members Stewart, Hemsworth, Theron and Claflin along with producers Joe Roth and Palak Patel and here are the highlights from their talk about the upcoming film.
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