Julia Roberts is to play the evil queen in a new version of Snow White, the third such take on the Brothers Grimm tale currently being hatched in Hollywood.
The Roberts production is being directed by Tarsem Singh, and is described as a modern-edged version in which Snow White goes in search of payback after her evil stepmother kills her father.
That doesn’t sound all so different from Universal’s Snow White and the Huntsman, set to star Twilight’s Kristen Stewart as the princess and Viggo Mortensen as her pursuer. In the latter take, the huntsman ends up teaching his target how to fight back against her nemesis.