Casting Bits: Lily Cole And Sam Spruell In ‘Snow White And The Huntsman;’ Ben Barnes In ‘Seventh Son’
It’s a rather slow Friday, leaving us plenty of time — too much time, probably — to think about thepassingof Peter Falk and Pixar’sfall from the pedestal of perfect reviews. But there are a few bits of casting info out there, and after the break you’ll find the following:
This week has seen abonanza of casting decisionsfor Universal’sSnow White and the Huntsman. (That’s the more serious, action-oriented Snow White movie, while Relativity’s film is the comic one.) The company of seven dwarfs was rather impeccably cast withIan McShane,Eddie Izzard,Toby Jones,Bob Hoskins,Eddie Marsan,Stephen GrahamandRay Winstone. Whatever I thought of the movie before — and I was already curious, thanks toChris Hemsworth(Thor) landing the Huntsman role — that collection of talent made it a lot more interesting.
Also interesting is model turned actressLily Cole, who has an almost unearthly beauty, as seen inThe Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. She andSam Spruellhave just joined theHuntsmancast, as a girl named Greta, and “Finn, the Queen’s henchman sent to kill the Huntsman and Snow White.” They joinKristen Stewart,Charlize TheronandSam Claflin.Hossein Aminiis doing the latest polish onEvan Daughtery’s script, with a fall production start on the calendar and a release date set for July 29, 2025. [Variety]
Speaking of Sam Claflin, there’sSeventh Son, based on the first book fromJoseph Delaney’s youth-lit novel series, which was once flirting with Alex Pettyfer and then seemed to have Sam Claflin locked to star as the young man who is the seventh son of a seventh son, and becomes an apprentice exorcist who fights the supernatural in the 1700s. (The novel in question is calledThe Spook’s Apprentice, and the film went under that title at first, then was calledThe Last Exorcistafter the US name of the novel series, but has been calledSeventh Sonfor some time now.)
Sam Claflin didn’t take the gig after all, and it now falls toBen Barnes, who had his first starring role in the secondNarniafilm.Jeff Bridgeswill playthe older exorcist who trains him;Julianne Mooreis playing the youth-sucking villain, andAlicia Vikanderplays a girl named Alice.Sergey Bodrov(Mongol) directs, and the film shoots in late summer or early fall — just asSnow White and the Huntsmanwill roll. [Variety]
