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BREAKING: Universal Pictures has taken the unusual step of outright denying a Hollywood Reporter story that Kristen Stewart had been dumped from the sequel to Snow White And The Huntsman. The studio issued this statement from Universal Co-Chairman Donna Langley: “We are extremely proud of Snow White And The Huntsman and we’re currently exploring all options to continue the franchise. Any reports that Kristen Stewart has been dropped are false.”
The studio, which feels it has launched two potential franchises this summer in Huntsman and the Seth MacFarlane-directed Ted, has been trying to figure out what to do with the former. As Deadline revealed yesterday, David Koepp, who’d been hired in April to script a straight sequel, isn’t putting pen to paper. The film was pricey, but its near $400 million worldwide gross puts it on the bubble for another film. Much of the creative talk internally has been to focus that on the Huntsman character played by Chris Hemsworth, who is emerging as a breakout leading man and who proved to be a bargain for the $5 million he earned for the first installment of the film. THR used all this as a referendum to stamp out the participation of Stewart because of recent events, which seemed a bit harsh and unfair, particularly since nary a word of the sequel or a spinoff has yet been written. Huntsman director Rupert Sanders is in the center of a new project bought last night by Universal, the Dean Unkefer book 90 Church: The True Story Of The Narcotics Squad From Hell, which reunites the Snow White And The Huntsman director with producers Joe Roth and Palak Patel, who’ll produce with Deborah Giarratana.
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Thank the good Lord. Didn’t think I’d sleep tonight over this dramatic issue.
The film hardly left in a zero (according to official budget) or didn’t pay off at all (according to budget with marketing expenses). Most of critics said that acting of the main character was mediocre. The malicious queen won’t return to a sequel. So there is a question – why sequel speech? What for?
The directing was awful and the pacing bad.The BO wasn’t spectacular but it has done almost $ 400 millions so far. This put the movie in the same area as other marvel movies like Thor and Captain America that have a lot of fanboys and were in 3D. Not bad for a non sequel movie;
That said the director is awful they either need to fire him or drop the franchise thing.
no, it doesn’t; the official budget for Snow white was 170mil for production, 55mil for promo. This puts it in the same area as TRON! Another sequel that never happened, because it didn’t make enough money
Thor and Captain America cost less than Snow White. I say drop the whole thing and work on something better.
A Tron sequel hasn’t happened YET, it may very well be scheduled sometime not that far away, what with the cartoon coming out
so just trying to avoid the bad publicity of being sexist and sticking with the man in the affair? sounds like it…Drop them both. It’s not like Sanders’ direction in SWATH was that great or even good…directors like him are a dime a dozen
Totally agree – it’s not like Stewart alone had an affair. As far as those pictures prove, Sanders was very present too. And yet he gets his wife back and another movie from the same studio that brought them together in the first place, but she gets…bad publicity. Long term, I really hope this all just serves to help make Stewart the second coming of Angelina Jolie – a powerful woman in charge of herself and her sexuality who doesn’t need Hollywood to tell her how to be a woman.
God. I don’t know what to be more disappointed by–the fact that KS didn’t get fired or that Universal is actually planning a sequel to another shitty movie.
They had indicated awhile ago that the sequel would focus on the Huntsman, that story was opportunistic trash journalism. If her price tag isn’t worth her presence she’ll be gone, it’s that simple.
However
When looking at budget versus return and critical/audience reception? I cannot see how a sequel is a good idea. They really expect to grow their audience for this? Highly doubtful. This isn’t your “Batman Begins” Universal; move on!
statistically speaking, the twilight stars have not been able to move twilight fans to see their other films. this includes SWATH. Helmsworth was the draw based on his Thor success.
you are right. from a financial perspective ther is no point to a sequel.
Charlize Theron was the draw. She looked great in the trailers and was the standout.
Chris Hemsworth is not a draw. I barely was aware that he was in SWATH.
“If her price tag isn’t worth her presence she’ll be gone, it’s that simple.”
SWATH grossed $400 million worldwide despite its crappiness based on her name alone. I think it opened here in the US at somewhere around $50 million. With SWATH having a $170 million budget just to have that plodding a pace, it seems to me that they could have had a better movie with a better director for $120 million or so, if that.
Thank you– Deadline’s story the real story here though it won’t sell as many papers as HR’s juicier version!
LOL, methinks they saw the huge backlash that dropping Kristen would bring!
This is what I like about Deadline. being professional and accurate when coming to news.
But… But… Sanders made such a cool short! Sure there was nary a plot and no motivated directing in terms of actors. And much of it was done in a computer. BUT IT LOOKED PRETTY DAMNIT! Why wouldn’t Hollywood trust him with a couple hundred million to make a feature. That’s all it takes to be a director nowdays isn’t it? A few minutes of pretty pictures modified by a computer? I mean, there’s been at least a dozen of these finds in the last few years and they’ve all (scratch that… none) of them have turned around and made great movies…
I’d say DISTRICT 9 qualified as a breakout success from a filmmaker who had made a name for himself based on his short film. Sure, the ratio is still awful, but every studio is gambling on finding the new director that delivers a big film and thus creates a profitable loyalty.
One problem is that these guys all want to be THE NEXT RIDLEY SCOTT … an issue considering that Scott still doesn’t know how to pick a script to save his life.
That piece at the hollywood reporter was planted as a pr to sell DVDs and garner support for Kristen Stewart
Universal will gauge the support before they make any decision, but they want people to buy DVDs which get released in a couple of weeks
Im so sick of people saying the movie sucked, I read on here from so many people that I almost didn’t watch it and it was quite good and has done very well at the box office. It makes zero sense to lose Kristen when studios seem to have no problem replacing directors. There is something fishy that they are paying David koepp not to write a straight sequel so I think universal just doesn’t want the bad publicity and the sequel will probably not go forward. Snow white sequel without snow white???? Although they did have great success with a Bourne movie without Bourne
I could see them taking a different turn with the sequel. Even when they were still making this film there were talks that it would be more focused on the huntsman. Chris Hemsworth is going to be a huge box office draw for any movie he is in at this point. Just look at the movies that MGM had put on the back shelf with him that are just now getting released. He filmed Cabin in the Woods and Red Dawn a few years ago, before he did Thor. Now they’re going to make considerably more in theaters.
However, I agree. I think it is more likely for them to find another director than get rid of Kristen Stewart, but we’ll just have to wait and see what happens with it all.
As much as I like Hemsworth, he has yet to open a movie on his own. Thor was a Marvel Movie, Avengers was a Marvel, Joss and Downey movie, Cabin in the Woods was a Joss movie, and Red Dawn was a catastrophically bad joke the moment it was pitched. Meanwhile, the focus of SWATH’s entire marketing campaign was Stewart, especially that picture of her in Joan-of-Arc-ish armor.
Sorry Universal we are fans Kristen only see SWATH bec of her, in my country SWATH BO’s almost $4 million…so no Kristen NO SWATH to her fans!!!!!!! TAKE THAT UNIVERSAL
lol. wow……..
I could see them dropping Sanders sooner than Stewart. She is more of a box office draw than the director. Heck, wasn’t this his first time directing a feature length film? I remember reading he had previously done video games. I really liked the movie. Of course there were things I could find wrong with it, because if you look hard enough you can find something wrong with anything and everything. That being said, I thought the cinematography was good. I liked the costumes and the plot and storyline. Snow White has always been one of my favorite fairytales and I was surprisingly impressed with Stewart’s performance. She even attempted a British accent, even if you didn’t always hear it. It wasn’t bad.
From a budgetary sense, a sequel seems ill-founded, and even the $400 million number being touted is a rounded figure. I don’t think the movie was that bad, but I highly doubt anyone walked out hammering for a sequel.
I saw SWATH and it wasn’t bad. Would I apy to go see another one? That’s a no. And I might by wrong, but isn’t Kristen’s salary a good chunk of change. So, if they were making another one and for money reasons, wouldn’t it make more sense to drop Kristen instead of Rupert? but then again it’s easier to get a director then a leading lady.
Bourne Legacy is a great success? Between the not so spectacular opening weekend and the lack of strong word of mouth it’s showing the Renner/Gilroy is not a real substitute for Damon/Greengrass. I like Renner but he’s not a man to build a franchise around (yet) he’s just a stop gap until Damon agrees to do another one
I agree, outside of Rachel Weisz, who gave the best performance in Bourne Legacy, the movie is not good at all.
The pacing was awful and the ending was a complete frakin joke.
Is it not possible that Universal put out the first story and the retraction at the same time ? I think so.
Why should she get fired? She wasn’t the married one in the situation.
I think they got major backlash, not only from Kristen fans but also people in general, its seems extremely sexist to keep the 44 year old married man, but ditch the 22 year old actress, who brought her fame and fans to support the movie, I don’t know what they’re thinking, I hope if giving the option Kristen would just leave the project, is too tainted and this point she doesn’t need that
The first movie would have been so much better had Stewart not been in it at all. Seriously, can Hollywood look past the It Girl for once and pick N actress who can act beyond impersonating someone fighting a painful bowel movement?
“an actress” not “N actress”. Sorry.
the question is: why make a sequel of a so bad movie ? and why to do it again with the weakest link of the film : KStew’s acting?
universal should just step away from this. the first movie was horrible. if nothing else gret pr came from this. kristen got a lot of sympathy. guess the real question is whose team started this rumor?
I actually like SWATH and I liked Kristen Stewart’s acting. Her accent didn’t bother me as much as I thought it would and it seemed as though they left an opening at the end with a love triangle of sorts so maybe they were thinking about a sequel long before.
Oh no. Bummer. And there we were… all relieved that “open mouth, formerly know as lip-biter” would be out of “Evil Queen and the Huntsmen” sequel. They mean that we would have to go to cinema to watch Charlize Theron as epic crazy cool Queen but we would have to watch how Kristen Stewart will open her mouth every time when she will try to show different emotions?
I think that 95% of the people who watched that movie were relieved that she was out. She was the worst part of it.
I liked SWATH and Kristen was better than usual but u wouldn’t miss her in a sequel.
I still say the entire “scandal” was a massive pr stunt. Kudos. Brilliant.
The Universal response seems pretty week – a kind of non-denial denial. They didn’t say, oh yes, we are definitely working on bringing Snow White and Kristen back for a sequel and we want to be in the Kristen Stewart business. And wasn’t Koepp recently brought on to write a sequel with Snow White and just negotiated out? Sounds to me that the Reporter story is correct.