Relativity’s Snow White Finally Gets A Title; Film Described By Director Tarsem Singh As “Sickeningly Kiddie”
After months and months of being referred to as “Relativity Media’s untitledSnow Whiteproject,“Tarsem Singh’s take on the classic fairy tale finally has a title. The name they’re going with isMirror, Mirror, which seems like a pretty obvious pick in retrospect.
Interestingly, the news comes just a few days after director Singh said in an interview that if it were up to him, he’d simply call itSnow. At the time, he said the decision wasn’t his to make, and that one of the reasons the movie took so long to get a title had to do with “legal stuff being sorted out.” In the same conversation, he described his own film as “sickeningly kiddie” and explained why his interest in creating a children’s film isn’t so surprising after all. Read more after the jump.
Mirror, Mirror, in contrast, is obviously aimed at kids, with its cartoonishly bright coloring and sugar-sweet imagery — something of a change of pace for the director, whose other notable works include the violentImmortalsand the creepyThe Cell. What we’ve seen ofMirror, Mirrorso far is probably closest to Singh’s 2006 filmThe Fall, which despite its R rating had a definite childlike slant to it.
For his part, Singh’s perfectly happy making a kid-friendly film. “They asked me if I wanted to make it edgy and I said, ‘No interest, absolutely no interest,'” Singh toldMoviefonerecently. “It’s a children’s movie, but my stuff tends to be polarizing. When it’s for children, it’s like, sickeningly kiddie, and when it’s the other way, it’s sickeningly graphic for people. Both are OK for me. It’s comme ci comme ça that I’m terrified of.”
StarringLily Collinsas the fabled princess,Armie Hammeras the handsome prince,Julia Robertsas the Evil Queen, andSean Beanas the King, Singh’sMirror, Mirroris slated to hit theatersMarch 16, 2012— two and a half months ahead of Rupert Sanders’Snow White and the Huntsman.
