Snow White and the seven kung fu monks

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/china/story/0,7369,1521535,00.html

[font=Geneva,Arial,sans-serif] Jonathan Watts in Beijing
Tuesday July 5, 2005
The Guardian

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[font=Geneva,Arial,sans-serif]Due for a martial arts makeover ... Disney's 1937 version of Snow White
[/font]</td></tr></tbody> </table> [font=Geneva,Arial,sans-serif]The Wicked Queen will not know what hit her. Snow White is about to be transformed into a martial arts epic with Shaolin monks replacing the seven dwarves of the original Grimm Brothers fairytale.[/font] [font=Geneva,Arial,sans-serif]In a sign of the times, Walt Disney is behind the kung fu retelling of its 1937 animated classic, which is part of an intensifying strategy to make inroads into the Chinese cinema market ahead of Hollywood rivals.[/font]

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you got be kidding.

Walt would be spinning, not just turning.


Hay> other idias are the Hall of Presidents is going to be the Hall of Funk also and carosel of progress is going to become the carosel of regress (war).

 

[FigmentJedi]

Old news.
I disagree though that it will suck(Walt may be spinning though..). It may not be a grand film, but at least it will be freaking awesome like Godzilla Final Wars. And it's not like the monks will be midgets and it will be the same setting. It's in 1800's China in a British colony.