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Snow White And The Huntsman Trailer: Charlize Theron, Pretty Hate Machine

By TK | Posted Under Trailers | Comments (37)

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It’s interesting that for a Snow White retelling entitled Snow White and the Huntsman, the trailer focuses almost entirely on Charlize Theron’s evil Queen. Rightfully so, however. Outside of the Twilight set, she’s the most well-known, and certainly the most renowned, and it looks like she’s having a deliciously evil time with the role. The trailer is actually pretty good — it’s effects-heavy, but they’re good looking effects. It looks like what it’s been described as — a tough, gritty telling of the classic fairytale, and I’m liking it. God knows it looks better than those awful fairy tale TV shows that are shitting their way through our living rooms right now.

Theron looks every inch the vain, venomous dark queen, and Chris Hemsworth — who barely had to change out of his Thor costume — looks sufficiently gruff and rough-hewn. There’s about two seconds of dwarf time, which is a shame since I’m dying to see how they turn out — the dwarfs are played by Ian McShane as Caesar, Eddie Izzard as Tiberius, Bob Hoskins as Constantine, Toby Jones as Claudius, Eddie Marsan as Hadrian, Stephen Graham as Nero, Ray Winstone as Trajan, and Nick Frost as Gus. That’s a hell of a list.

The x-factor will be Kristen Stewart’s Snow White. Ignoring the fact that one is hard pressed to say she’s more beautiful than Theron (she’s a lovely girl, don’t get me wrong, but…), I’m curious to see if she can give a performance that consists of more than biting her lip, gasping, crying, and running her hands through her hair. Because seriously K-Stew: range, girl. Lookitup.

Here’s the poster as well as the new banner, for those who are curious:

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Comments

Kristen Stewart has no range, doesn't even do angsty teen well, and is only mildly attractive.

Posted by: The Kilted Yaksman at November 10, 2011 5:40 PM

I do so love it when things burst into flocks of birds.

Posted by: Mrs. Julien at November 10, 2011 5:40 PM

I agree, that looks awesome to be honest. Looking forward to it.

Posted by: Spartacus at November 10, 2011 5:42 PM

Poor kid. How the hell can anyone pull off "fairer" than Charlize Theron? It's not a task for mere mortals. Have these people never heard of Mila Kunis if they wanted a "young", beautiful, dark haired actress who can actually FUCKING ACT!

Posted by: Joker at November 10, 2011 5:42 PM

Mila Kunis is too sexy to pull off "pure as the driven" you know.

Posted by: Mrs. Julien at November 10, 2011 5:47 PM

When Charlize asks "Who's the fairest of them all" and then they cut to Kristen, all I can think to say is "Her"? Just like in Arrested Development.

Kristen over Charlize even when evil....,ok.

Posted by: Candy at November 10, 2011 5:49 PM

The mirror did cover itself with the word "potential" to be more beautiful.

Posted by: Mrs. Julien at November 10, 2011 5:51 PM

I expect, no demand, a dwarf spinoff movie with those guys.

Posted by: Sean at November 10, 2011 5:52 PM

@ Joker: That casting idea is inspired! But I think with this cast they could have just gotten an unknown girl.
I was really apprehensive of this because of Stewart. I looove fairy tale retellings done WELL (ahem,"Once.." and "Grimm") and have thought for years that exploring the darker origins of the classic tales would make for reat movies. But after the Red Riding Hood hot mess I was afraid they'd blow this.

It looks really good though and I love Charlize in this. Makes me wonder about a battle of the evil queens with Charlize an Angelina Jolie as Melficient. Once upon a time did that in one of the last episodes, now imagine Charlize, Angelina and some decent SFX going at it!

Posted by: Phedre at November 10, 2011 5:58 PM

Mrs Julien, if you end that sentence as "pure as the driven sex", then yes she can pull it off. And anyway, they're trying to be all "edgy" and not make SW some boring little virgin.

Posted by: Joker at November 10, 2011 6:00 PM

Phedre, I think you just short-circuited my brain with "Charlize and Angelina going at it". Thank you and good night. I'm already in my bunk.

Posted by: Joker at November 10, 2011 6:02 PM

Are you kidding me? Since when was Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs in the same universe as The Lord of the Rings? It would seem Gimli got busy trying to repopulate the Longbeards. Guess he doesn't wear tighty whities. Even the Coat of Arms on the shield looks like a rip-off of Minas Tirith. Does the Wicked Queen bathe in Behr or Glidden? So her magic mirror is a talking BP oil slick? It's nice to know the Tron Legacy soundtrack rejects were able to find employment in this trailer.

One zing to rue them all.

Posted by: bleujayone at November 10, 2011 6:03 PM

And so, another gay mini-icon is born (what is it with evil queens? oh... never mind).

Seriously though, Theron looks awesome. And I now want to be buried by explosion into birds.

And you never know, maybe Stewart will... ehh no, I'm sorry. I too think Sleeping Beauty is more within her range.

Posted by: wojtek at November 10, 2011 6:15 PM

I know it's been said here before, but that's the tree of Gondor on SW's shield, right? Does this take place in Middle-earth?

Also: I do so love it when things burst into flocks of birds. Amen, Mrs. Julien.

Posted by: DizMixen at November 10, 2011 6:18 PM

We'll see how it stacks up against the Julia Roberts version. I can't stand her and she probably can't pull off bitchy, much less evil.

Posted by: FyreHaar at November 10, 2011 6:39 PM

was that THe Dark Knight soundtrack they were using?

Posted by: arrrghzi at November 10, 2011 8:09 PM

I love fairy tale retellings, although my usual format is books. This had me pretty excited until I got to see who's playing SW. My first thought thereafter:
Will there be a bowmp-chicka-bowmp rumpus between Snow White and The Huntsman? NOOOOOOO... Bella does not deserve Thor!!!! Boo! And hiss, I say.

Posted by: malechai at November 10, 2011 8:13 PM

FYI, list of people who deserve Thor:

1. Malechai.

That is all.

Posted by: malechai at November 10, 2011 8:14 PM

Gondor has no queen, Gondor needs no queen!

Posted by: luthien26 at November 10, 2011 8:25 PM

The Evil Queen is supposed to be physically beautiful...what is supposed to make Snow White surpass her is Snow White's purity of heart and goodness...it really isn't about who is the prettiest. Even in the Disney cartoon the Evil Queen is prettier. Though I am definitely not as down on Kristen Stewart as many others seem to be.

Posted by: EME at November 10, 2011 8:26 PM

Well, EME beat me to it. When I heard that K.Stew (I'm loving that abbreviation) was cast as Snow White against Theron's evil queen the first thing that came to my mind was "It's definitely about inner beauty! Right?" And look, the trailer proves my point! Doesn't the queen have to devour White's heart? There ya go.

Posted by: Four Eyes at November 10, 2011 8:52 PM

Why are there two Snow White movies and even though I've heard it said many times before, why is it just dawning on me that there are two Snow White movies?

Were they that impressed by the Sigourney Weaver version? Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty must be feeling really neglected right now.

Posted by: Candy at November 10, 2011 9:16 PM

Weak chin, dead eyes, end of story.

That is a damn nice dwarf list tho

Posted by: Protoguy at November 10, 2011 9:17 PM

That looks awesome!

Oh sorry, I was looking at some Skyrim trailers.

This looks mind numbingly generic. I'll pass.

Posted by: googergieger at November 10, 2011 9:25 PM

kristin stewert looks hotter the charlize theron to me

Posted by: Utah Dynamo at November 10, 2011 9:42 PM

Hemsworth! Is he worth the money?

If he takes his shirt off, YES.

If he doesn't, maybe. If someone else pays.

Nothing else matters.

Also, yeah, KStew. You're OK. You're just no Charlize Theron. What a bizarre bit of casting.

Posted by: figgy at November 10, 2011 10:14 PM

Kristen Stewart's slackting is easier to ignore when she's not really the focus and surrounded by better actors, like in Adventureland. Hopefully like the trailer, the film relies more on Theron than her.

Posted by: jM at November 10, 2011 10:54 PM

Looks surprisingly decent, but with Theron using that accent all I could think the whole time was "MISTER EFF!!!"

Posted by: Arran at November 10, 2011 11:13 PM

KStew

Gesundheit.

Posted by: , at November 11, 2011 1:01 AM

This looks pretty neat. Though I can't help but notice they didn't let K-Stew speak the entire trailer. The last trailer I can remember doing that with a main character was that Avatar: Airbender trailer. So...yeah. That doesn't bode well. I also believe I failed to see her portray more than one facial expression.

Posted by: BiblioGeek at November 11, 2011 2:26 AM

I think it looks cool and I love Charlize and I love looking at that Thor guy, so I'd go see it. I have only seen Kristen Stewart act in one movie, Into the Wild. Thought she did a decent job. I have no intention of watching any Twilight flick, which I assume is sucky due to the writing and direction and Taylor Lautner.

Looks like they took the idea of Bathory (sp?) from that other recent thread and gave some of her more evil traits to Charlize.

I like the idea of this story being about two strong women battling things out that have nothing to do with getting a dude's attention/ hand in marriage. They may have conversations that have nothing to do with him, so it might fit the bill for that rule about how few movies have women talking to each other about anything other than the dude. Huntsman guy is the eye candy and he is caught between their power struggle. And it looks to me like whoever wins gets to be queen of everything and live in that nice big castle by the sea. As part of her happy ever after she can take her gorgeous horses for long rides on the beach, luxuriate in hot baths or just roll around in her money while watching Netflix and collecting taxes from the local dwarf community. If the Huntsman survives and doesn't get in the way too much, he can visit the castle and service the winner at her whim. I just went from semi serious feminist critique to greedy, there, didn't I?

Posted by: Viking at November 11, 2011 8:22 AM

That actually looks pretty beautiful, I think. Hm.

And I, too, love it when things break into flocks of smaller that thing. I think it started when I saw The Gate.

Posted by: Anna von Beav at November 11, 2011 10:22 AM

Yay! I'm home for once and can actually watch trailers!

This movie, based on this trailer, looks fabulous. I hope the film itself lives up to the preview.

Posted by: tamatha at November 11, 2011 10:45 AM

Looks good, I'll probably see it despite the presence of the humorless and lackluster K.Stew., Queen of Ennui.

Posted by: sunny at November 11, 2011 10:45 AM

@Phedre, it's funny you mention the hot mess that was the recent adaptation of Little Red Riding Hood, because when I heard about the casting of K.Stew for this all I thought that A.Seyfried would have made a much better Snow White. Better acting, incredibly beautiful (enough to compete with Theron), naturally sincere enough to play the good girl. Just slap a wig on her and you're good.

Posted by: Donut Plains at November 11, 2011 11:02 AM

Just an awful, awful casting choice with Kristin Stewart...which is weird because every other casting choice seems to be so so perfect. Ugg..this movie looks way too good for me not to see it because of Stewart, but damn...it could've been so much better.

Posted by: Littlejon2001 at November 11, 2011 4:54 PM

Yeah, erase Kristin Stewart, replace her with....anybody....and this movie looks AWESOME!

IAN MCSHANE?????? Cocksucking dwarves.

Posted by: dammitjanet at November 12, 2011 8:40 AM