Mirror, Mirror on the wall...

Julia Roberts as the Evil Queen in “Mirror, Mirror”.

Snow White adaptations are like buses, you wait ages for one and then two come along at once.
But never fear, fantasy fans, the release of a trailer for “Mirror, Mirror” confirmed that this Tarsem Singh directed romp is going to be magical worlds away from the gritty and dark “Snow White and the Huntsman”.
Their malevolent and violent Evil Queen, played by a serious Charlize Theron, is prone to breaking into flocks of black birds for no apparent reason, “Mirror” on the other hand, has Julia Roberts camping it up with sardonic one liners, then breaking up into cackles over her ham-fisted plans.
And Kristen Stewart's serious warrior princess is replaced by a traditional Snow White that stays close to the Disney blueprint with red lips, and a spin on that famous blue and yellow costume.
This princess, played by singer Phil Collins' daughter, Lily, may be feisty, but she's as likely to erupt into song if a tiny bird alights on her arm.
If “Snow White and the Huntsman” is a “Twilight” inspired take on the beloved tale, this appears to be the whimsical, witty “Princess Bride” style adaptation.
Nothing is sacred, the trailer makes clear from the outset.
Snow White's fabled porcelain skin and obsidian locks are dismissed as nothing out of the ordinary by the Evil Queen in a show-setting moment of hubris.
The trailer begins with the usual film voiceover about a “beautiful princess” with “skin as white as snow and hair as black as night.”
But Julia interrupts the monologue to sneer: “Her hair is not black it's raven, she's 18 years old and her skin has never seen the sun, so of course it's good!”
Another deviation from the familiar tale is that this Evil Queen has run out of money and is therefore much more concerned with trying to marry a much younger, wealthier prince than obsessing too much over her beautiful adversary.
That's why she hatches a plan to banish Snow White to the forest and to snare the wealthy Prince with a love potion.
But Snow White gathers a group of dwarf bandits to reclaim her birthright, and they even bump into each other in the show in a way that would surely have made Disney proud.
Armie Hammer stars as the pursued Prince and Nathan Lane as the Queen's beleaguered servant Brighton.

Source: Internet