TOY STORY 3 Screenwriter to work on SNOW WHITE Project for Disney
With Universal Pictures and Relativity Media both developing live-action Snow White movies, Disney is finally moving forward with their own live-action version of Snow White called Snow White and the Seven.
The studio is currently in negotiations to hire Toy Story 3 screenwriter Michael Arndt to work on the script. He was just nominated for his work on the film. Disney's been slowly developing this Snow White project since 2002 and it centers on a 19th century Englishwoman who returns to her Hong Kong home for her father's funeral, only to discover that her stepmother is plotting against her. She escapes to mainland China, finding solace among a rogue band of seven international warriors.
Francis Lawrence (Constantine) has been on board to direct the film from very early on, it's even gone through a few different writers over the years, but was originally written by Scott Elder and Josh Harmon. Natalie Portman also started entertaining the idea of taking on the leading role in the film. I'm not sure how that will all play out now that she's pregnant.
I'm actually excited about this version of Snow White for the fact that the dwarves are now Shaolin monk warriors.