Universal Pictures announced on Monday that "Snow White and the Huntsman" — an action-adventure epic starring Kristen Stewart and Charlize Theron — will be released on June 1, 2012 — six months earlier than previously scheduled.
The film — which is being produced by Joe Roth ("Alice in Wonderland"), directed by commercial director Rupert Sanders and also stars Chris Hemsworth ("Thor") and Sam Clafin ("Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides") — had originally been set for release in late December of next year. But universal, perhaps seeing the encouraging start to the summer 2011 box office, is now targeting a summer 2012 release date.
According to the Universal script, Stewart "plays the only person in the land fairer than the evil queen (Theron) who is out to destroy her. But what the wicked ruler never imagined is that the one girl threatening her reign has been training in the art of war with a huntsman (Hemsworth) who was dispatched to kill her. Claflin plays the prince long enchanted by Snow White's beauty and power."
