Mirror mirror on the wall... is this the best fairy tale adaptation of all? The stunning new trailer for Snow White and the Huntsman promises a visual masterpiece

The first teaser trailer for Snow White and the Huntsman has been released, and has already set tongues wagging about the hotly anticipated adaption of the classic fairy tale.
The grown-up version of the children's story boasts Twilight's Kristen Stewart in the title role, with Chris Hemsworth as the huntsman and Charlize Theron as a malevolent evil queen.
Capitalising on the Breaking Dawn buzz, the trailer will surely whet the appetites of K-Stew fans dreading the gap between the next two Twilight installments.
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Who's the fairest of them all? Kristen Stewart is pale as snow in the new trailer for Snow White and the Huntsman

Steals the show? Charlize Theron's malevolent evil queen is the star of the trailer at least

The trailer opens with a chilling speech from Charlize, who utters in a (convincing) English accent: 'Do you hear that? It's the sound of battles fought, and lives lost. It once pained me to know that I am the cause of such despair. But now their cries give me strength.'

 

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'Beauty is my power,' she adds, before the scene cuts to her 'sucking' the life from a hapless girl before throwing her mercilessly to the ground.
The magic mirror morphs into a cloaked  human shape to answer his mistress's question: 'Mirror mirror on the wall, who is fairest of them all?'

The price of beauty: The evil queen sucks the life out of one of her subjects to maintain her youthful looks

Forever young: The queen is prepared to stop at nothing to remain the fairest of all

To no-one's surprise but the queen, he replies: 'You are the fairest, but there is another destined to surpass you. Consume her heart, and you shall live forever,'
Outraged, the queen orders her minions: 'Find me someone who doesn't fear the dark forest to hunt her down.'
The huntsman, played by Chris Hemsworth of Thor fame, is threatened with death unless he captures and kills Snow White.

Break from tradition: Chris Hemsworth, plays the Huntsman, who ends up falling in love with Snow White in this adaption

Though his mission is to bring the evil queen her rival's heart, he ends up becoming her protector and mentor in a quest to vanquish the Evil Queen.
The film also stars Ian McShane, Eddie Izzard, Bob Hoskins, Toby Jones and Ray Winstone among the dwarves.
Produced by Alice In Wonderland's Joe Roth, it is clearly a visual feast, with no expenses spared on sweeping landscapes and stunning effects.

Full interaction: The magic mirror morphs into a human-like form to pass judgement on his mistress's reflection

Surprises in store: It's no wonder that few are brave enough to venture into the dark forest

Though the trailer has already been praised for its design and the beautiful shots, there has been concern that Kristen's portrayal of Snow White would be too similar to that of the role she is most famous for, Bella Swan.
Stewart recently revealed however that she was not initially attracted to the role of Snow White, but became interested after realising the new version was a very different take on the classic character.
She truly does not let her heart cloud her mind,' the Twilight actress told Entertainment Weekly earlier this summer. 'Also I get to have a sword and stuff, and really cool weapons.

Highly anticipated: The official trailer for the film was released today, and has already caused a stir with its stunning visuals

Sweet dreams: The trailer shows the queen stabbing someone in their sleep

'This girl has the amazing ability to channel fear, things that people are typically afraid to do, into this really focused, really charged, driving energy,' she added.
The 21-year-old star looked pale and exhausted as she was spotted filming scenes for her upcoming film, Snow White And The Huntsman, in Surrey this afternoon.
The U.S. actress is currently promoting the latest installment to the Twilight Saga as well as playing the fairytale character in the 2012 movie.

Fury: Charlize plays the villain with admirable gusto

Wearing a brown medieval dress with grubby jeans and boots, Kristen looked worlds away from the Disney character that many people will associate the storyline with, but it was her complexion that looked more downcast.
The actress looked tired and fed up as she hung around on the outdoor set in between takes.
She was still wearing a bandage on her right hand after she injured herself filming horse riding scenes in Wales last week.

Is that the prince? The hero isn't quite who you'd expect in this version

Perhaps Kristen was in pain with the injury as well as feeling a little jet lagged from her trip to Los Angeles.
At one point the brunette was seen holding her hand on her hip and as she waited around for the crew members to prepare the location for her next scene.
But she wasn't alone as she had her hunky co-star, Chris Hemsworth, to keep her company.

Familiar? There is some concern that Kristen's role will be too similar to that of Bella Swan in the Twilight saga

... but the actress has insisted that she chose the role because it promised a daring break from tradition

The Australian actor plays the Huntsman in the highly-anticipated film and certainly looked the part in grubby shirt and trousers, chunky knee-high boots and his scruffy hair pulled back into a ponytail.
The pair were joined by a young actress, who was also dressed in medieval attire.
Kristen was later spotted filming a scene with the girl by the lakeside.
No doubt the Twilight star has jetted back to the UK for the vampire film's London premiere next week.

Calling in the cavalry: The film promises some epic battle scenes

She joined her on/off screen lover Robert Pattinson in Los Angeles last week at a hand and foot print ceremony at Graumans Theatre and also appeared on The Tonight Show With Jay Leno.
The actress is probably looking forward to when the Twilight promotional tour ends and she can concentrate more on filming the fairytale adaptation - her co-star certainly is.
Robert has said it's 'time to move on' from his blood-sucking role and is looking forward to laying low for a little while.

Feeling the strain: The 21-year-old actress has been jetting back and forth from Los Angeles as she promotes the latest Twilight film

Injured: Kristen was still wearing a bandage on her right hand after she hurt herself filming a horse riding scene in Wales last week

Speaking to Marie Claire UK, the British actor said: 'If you’re just an empty shell with your face stuck on everything, then there’s only so long the hysteria can last.
'I don’t like people taking my photo — ever,' he added. 'If there’s anything that stresses me out it’s people following me around.
'Most actors encourage the attention because they think it will make them have a more lasting career. I don’t think that’s the case. The more you reveal yourself, the less interesting people find you. Mystery lasts a lot longer, so you just hide.'

Looking the part: Kristen and her co-star Chris Hemsworth were joined by a young female actress who also wore medieval attire

Fairytale adaptation: The actress plays the lead role in the highly-anticipated 2012 film

But Kristen won't be doing a lot of hiding, especially as the first promotional picture for Snow White And The Huntsman was released by Universal Pictures yesterday.
The banner for the upcoming film centers on Kristen Stewart, and the dark and distorted take on the Disney classic is clearly evident in the artwork.
Stewart is seen standing in woods, armed with a large dagger.
She is clad in a leather dress and knee-high boots, and turns provocatively to her side.

Racy: Kristen was spotted flashing some flesh on the Wales set of the film back in September

Alongside her in the three-way banner, is Charlize Theron's villainous Evil Snow Queen, also armed with a hefty blade.
Wearing a high-collared cape, ravens ominously circle around her.
Meanwhile, The Huntsman emerges from the tree branches wood wielding an axe, edging dangerously close to Stewart.

Riding high: Kristen was also seen going for a beach ride with co-star Chris Hemsworth at her side

 

Po-faced lovers. Potty Plots. Woeful special effects. It's time to nail the coffin shut on the Twilight Saga... Save us from the vapid vampires!

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn (12A)

Verdict: Breaking down, more like it
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The suits behind the flamboyantly successful Twilight movie franchise —  worth £1.2  billion and counting — have followed Harry Potter’s lead by splitting the final novel into two.
But whereas the Potter series gained from that decision, the Twilight Saga loses almost all its impetus.

In the Potter stories, extra screen time allowed the leading characters to deepen; the reverse is true here.
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Tamed: Robert Pattinson (Edward) and  Kristen Stewart (Bella) star in The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1, in which they marry

Stephenie Meyer’s characters are becoming ever less plausible. And the dialogue in this movie is the most leaden and banal in the series.

And before all you Twilight fans complain that I’m too old to appreciate the movies, check out my review of the first film; I awarded it four stars out of five.
But a rather good original idea has dwindled into self-parody.

 

This film, a certain box-office hit thanks to the saga’s fanatical following, covers the first half of Meyer’s fourth book.
It starts with the lavish wedding of hot yet cool vampire Edward (Robert Pattinson), aged 108, to feisty yet droopy 18-year-old Bella (Kristen Stewart).

The nuptials are so kitsch they could have been designed by Russell Grant, and take a seemingly endless half-hour.
Anyone not obsessed with hair, make-up and lingerie may find it a near-death experience.

Pregnancy plot: The film speediest pregnancy in history, and an alarmingly gruesome childbirth

Here come the boys: Robert Pattinson (right) and Taylor Lautner (left) at the Breaking Dawn premiere in Barcelona, Spain last night

The inaction moves on to a turgid honeymoon on an island near Rio.

There’s lovemaking so passionless it barely warrants a 12A certificate, accompanied by the world’s weediest pop music.

From there it’s on to the speediest pregnancy in history, and an alarmingly gruesome childbirth.
The film-makers’ coyness about sex is strangely at odds with the grisliness of the Caesarean section, which might well put an impressionable 11-year-old girl off ever giving birth.

The only action comes in the form of a desultory battle towards the end, badly choreographed and featuring unpersuasive computer animation.
During this, the third lead, werewolf Jacob (Taylor Lautner), has to choose between his own kind and continuing to stalk his emo ex-girlfriend. Tough call.

Film premiere: (Left to right) Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner arriving for the UK premiere of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1, at the Westfield Stratford City, Stratford, this week

Co-stars: The three actors all arrived for the premiere in sultry black matching outfits

Lady in black: Kristen Stewart stars as Bella in the Twilight Saga

Teenage girls will probably be less interested in the story than in the earliest point where Mr Lautner rips off his shirt: these film-makers know their audience, and it’s within seconds of the opening.

The movie seems deeply confused as to how vampires procreate.
Now it is the normal human way, whereas earlier in the series vampires continued their line by biting humans.
The writers seem to be changing the rules as they go along.

Poor old Edward is clearly as much in the dark as the audience.
At one point, he goes on a search engine to look up ‘demon children’.
The mystery is why he didn’t go to it a bit earlier and look up ‘birth control’.

Skip the next two paragraphs if you don’t want to read a spoiler, but the climax depends on the notion that a grown-up werewolf can ‘imprint’ upon a baby at birth and make that offspring forever tied sexually to him.
Yes, a werewolf can fall in love with a baby, and vice versa!

The idea is deeply creepy, bordering on paedophile, and completely at odds with the surely much healthier notion that an adult has the right to fall in love with anyone he or she chooses. Maybe even a non-werewolf.

Director Bill Condon has made classy films in the past, notably Gods And Monsters and Kinsey, but he has never shown much sense of humour or feeling for pace or action.
He is ideally unsuited to this material.

His attitude towards the Twilight Saga is reverential. There is none of the intentional comedy that enlivened the first Twilight movie.
The only laughs in this are from the po-faced dialogue, potty plotting and wooden performances. 

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Having a laugh: The two co-stars joke around on the red carpet in Barcelona, Spain

 

 

 

First Look at Kristen Stewart and Charlize Theron in Snow White and the Huntsman

If fans at the Comic Con convention were looking for a little action and verbal sparring, that's exactly what they got when Kristen Stewart and Charlize Theron took stage to promote their movie Snow White and the Huntsman.
Kristen, 21, and Charlize, 35, engaged in some playful fighting talk yesterday as they unveiled the first character images from their upcoming fairytale film.
The South African actress admitted she didn't really know Stewart, but said she had a feeling the Twilight star was going to 'give me a run for my money.'

Tough: This new image of  Kristen Stewart   in her Snow White and the Huntsman costume shows the actress as an armoured, sword-wielding Snow White

Ready for battle: Charlize Theron co-stars as the evil queen

Theron added: 'And I'm ready for it b**ch, let's go!'
Producers debuted the first photos of Stewart, as an armoured, sword-wielding Snow White, and Theron, as the Evil Queen, at the Comic-Con fan convention in San Diego, California.

  lso attended the panel discussion.

Another big role: Australian actor Chris Hemsworth will play the huntsman, after earlier appearing in Thor and Star Trek

Stewart told the massive crowd of assembled fans that doing a traditional Snow White was not something 'I was jumping at.'
What attracted her was that this Snow White is more edgy: 'I get to have a sword and stuff,' Stewart said.
A newly released publicity photo shows Stewart wearing armour and holding a huge sword and shield in the movie.

Fan favourites:  Kristen Stewart   and Charlize Theron wowed the massive crowd of fans when the took stage

Charlize plays the evil queen and Chris Hemsworth co-stars as the huntsman. Cameras will begin rolling on the highly anticipated fantasy film next week in London.
The movie is due out next June and is one of two Snow White movies set to hit theatres.
The other Snow White film will star Lily Collins and Julia Roberts as the evil queen. The Julia Roberts version does not yet have a title, but the team behind the movie recently moved up its release date.

Comic-Con début:  The cast of Snow White and the Huntsman including Sam Claflin, Chris Hemsworth, Kristen Stewart and Charlize Theron posed for photos

It is now scheduled to open in the U.S. in March, to beat the Huntsman into theatres by two and a half months.

The film's director Tarsem Singh was also at Comic Con and bumped into the cast and crew of The Huntsman.
But he took it all in stride and even joked about the competition between the duelling Snow White films.
'I met them, wished them luck,' Singh told New York Magazine's The Vulture blog.

Competition: Another Snow White film starring Lily Collins is also scheduled to hit theatres next year