Sure, The Cell made its 2000 debut in 2,411 theaters and Tarsem Singh himself made waves when his epic of a passion project, The Fall, finally hit theaters after years of development and production (including 17 years of location scouting and a four-and-a-half-year shoot in 24 countries), but it wasn’t until Immortals arrived back in November of 2011 that Singh finally earned more widespread clout for his mesmerizing visuals.
Even as Immortals was still in post-production, Singh was hard at work on what’s bound to be his next visual romp: his take on Snow White, Mirror Mirror.
Why Snow White?
Considering Singh’s resume, a family-friendly fairytale seems like a bit of an unusual choice, and his producer even thought so himself. Singh recalled, “I remember when they gave this to my producer, he said, ‘You’ll never get Tarsem to do a Snow White,’ and it was the only thing that I reacted to.” He added, “I just think that if I can look at something and I believe I can put my DNA on it, it’s usually what interests me.” While the Mirror Mirror script did catch Singh’s eye, he admits, “There’s nothing from the original script that I read that’s in it except for maybe one name. I tend to change a lot of these things and we did.”
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I did the whole high school party thing back in the day, and things did get crazy once in a while, but I never ended up with a midget in my oven. Have you seen the trailers and clip for Project X? These kids are out of their minds. But, hey, I get it; it was all about upping each other to claim party glory. You had to go big to make it memorable.
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Well, they better be. We’ve been knee deep in Hunger Games promotional material for quite some time now, but we’ve still yet to see a single clip and, as stellar as the posters, trailers and TV spots are, it’s those clips that will tell us most about the quality of the full feature.
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