‘You are the fairest, but there is another destined to surpass you.'
New extended trailer for the
Rupert Sanders-directed
Snow White and the Huntsman film has hit the web, offering some new footage which allows us to face the dark aspects of the Snow White fairy tale.
After all,
Charlize Theron's wicked Queen wants to consume a young girl's heart so that she can stay young and live forever.
But also
Kristen Stewart's heroine showing off some action chops with a hair-raising escape from her. Not to mention Snow's training in the art of war with a huntsman (
Chris Hemsworth), or the footage of the dark forest full of malevolent beasties.
Sanders discussed how he twisted the fairy tale at this weekend's WonderCon:
I went back to those symbols, like the drops of blood, the mirror, the sense of loss, the sense of jealousy, the poison apple, the kiss of a love, and all of those things are in there. And to me, you have to go back to that source material because that's what people want to see – and you have to tell it in a way that feels right for your tastes. I didn't sit down and go well, what would people want to see.' I thought, what would be a cool mirror man, and how would that work? How would the character learn from it and how would we learn about the character through those interactions with the mirror?
That's nice, but Theron continues to offer a far more compelling performance than Stewart that is just a little bit odd. We'll check it out, see if Stewart will surpass Theron's power.
Meanwhile, you can watch a second full-length trailer below — Snow White and the Huntsman opens on June 1st, 2012.
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