I know this should be in the Movie Section, but I think that everyone should really see this (since not too many people go to that section)...
'Snow White' to don black robe to reprise film role
By Arthur Spiegelman
LOS ANGELES, Sept 19 (Reuters) - Snow White's come a long way, baby, from her days singing with seven dwarfs about someday meeting a prince. Now she may kick butt along with seven black-robed Shao Lin monks.
That is unless the Walt Disney Co. (DIS.N) changes course and throws her in with seven Samurai warriors. Hi ho, Hi ho, it's off to work she goes in a martial arts film.
Disney was reported Thursday to be negotiating with Yuen Wo Ping, the director of several classic martial arts movie including "Iron Monkey" and choreographer of the Oscar-winning "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," to make a live action version of the famed 1937 animated feature.
Disney declined comment as did a source close to Yuen Wo Ping. A movie industry source familiar with the project said it was still in the negotiating stages and untitled with Disney insisting the film had nothing to do with Snow White, except, for the plot, maybe.
But Daily Variety went further.
It reported that the martial arts version of Snow White until recently had the very un-Grimm like working title of "Snow White and the Seven Shao Lin," a reference to Chinese Shao Lin monks who master fighting to, as the newspaper put it, "better understand the source of violence and overcome it."
If the deal goes through it would mark the English-language directing debut of Yuen Wo Ping, who is currently doing the fight coordination for Quentin Tarantino's "Kill Bill."
Thanks to his pioneering work in creating and perfecting the martial arts genre, he has been a key figure in developing the careers of Jackie Chan. Jet Li and Michelle Yeoh.
Variety said the live action version of Snow White would be set in the 1890s and deal with a woman's return to Hong Kong to attend her father's funeral after many years abroad.
Once home she discovers she has an evil stepmother plotting against her and so she flees to the safety of a monastery of Shao Lin monks who protect her, thinking she "holds the fate of the world in her hands."
But whether monks would have personalities equal to Doc, Dopey, Grumpy, Happy, Sleepy, Bashful and Sneezy remains to be seen. The film has yet to be agreed on, let alone cast.
The original Disney film, based on the Grimm fairy tale, was the company's first full-length animated feature and the first to successfully create human characters.
It was called "Disney's Folly" but ushered in an era of full-length animated features that kicked butt in their day.
'Snow White' to don black robe to reprise film role
By Arthur Spiegelman
LOS ANGELES, Sept 19 (Reuters) - Snow White's come a long way, baby, from her days singing with seven dwarfs about someday meeting a prince. Now she may kick butt along with seven black-robed Shao Lin monks.
That is unless the Walt Disney Co. (DIS.N) changes course and throws her in with seven Samurai warriors. Hi ho, Hi ho, it's off to work she goes in a martial arts film.
Disney was reported Thursday to be negotiating with Yuen Wo Ping, the director of several classic martial arts movie including "Iron Monkey" and choreographer of the Oscar-winning "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," to make a live action version of the famed 1937 animated feature.
Disney declined comment as did a source close to Yuen Wo Ping. A movie industry source familiar with the project said it was still in the negotiating stages and untitled with Disney insisting the film had nothing to do with Snow White, except, for the plot, maybe.
But Daily Variety went further.
It reported that the martial arts version of Snow White until recently had the very un-Grimm like working title of "Snow White and the Seven Shao Lin," a reference to Chinese Shao Lin monks who master fighting to, as the newspaper put it, "better understand the source of violence and overcome it."
If the deal goes through it would mark the English-language directing debut of Yuen Wo Ping, who is currently doing the fight coordination for Quentin Tarantino's "Kill Bill."
Thanks to his pioneering work in creating and perfecting the martial arts genre, he has been a key figure in developing the careers of Jackie Chan. Jet Li and Michelle Yeoh.
Variety said the live action version of Snow White would be set in the 1890s and deal with a woman's return to Hong Kong to attend her father's funeral after many years abroad.
Once home she discovers she has an evil stepmother plotting against her and so she flees to the safety of a monastery of Shao Lin monks who protect her, thinking she "holds the fate of the world in her hands."
But whether monks would have personalities equal to Doc, Dopey, Grumpy, Happy, Sleepy, Bashful and Sneezy remains to be seen. The film has yet to be agreed on, let alone cast.
The original Disney film, based on the Grimm fairy tale, was the company's first full-length animated feature and the first to successfully create human characters.
It was called "Disney's Folly" but ushered in an era of full-length animated features that kicked butt in their day.
