Sentences with phrase «evil queen character»

Director Frank Darabont has dropped out of «The Huntsman» as the project looks to add Emily Blunt as the sister of Charlize Theron's Evil Queen character.

Not exact matches

Based on a story by George Lucas, Willow follows Warwick Davis» title character as he reluctantly agrees to help protect a baby from an evil ruler (Jean Marsh's Queen Bavmorda)- with Willow eventually receiving assistance in the form of a charming scoundrel named Madmartigan (Val Kilmer).

These characters, like Rumplestiltskin, Captain Hook and the Evil Queen, live a marginal existence, spending their lives drinking in a loser bar, and they jump at the chance to help Charming take over the kingdom.

It makes me chuckle that one reviewer said the characters were unrealistic, this is obviously written by an American whom through terrible movie portrayals of evil - villains and posh butlers believes every Brit to be on first name terms with the queen, dine on crumpets with rotten teeth and glug tea down with our pinkies raised.

If anything, the wonder that this movie does create is the thought of how much better it would be if evil queen Theron were given more prowess in this story; how much she'd be able to save an otherwise murky movie from its title characters with more than just her brief moments of delicious darkness.

Theron: «I was honored and saw great potential in his character (as he evil Queen).

There are also several featurettes including a tour of the massive sets, a look at the story as a whole and how it compares to other versions, a brief piece about the fairy tale aspects that were brought in from different sources, and character features on Snow White, the Huntsman, the Evil Queen and the Dwarves.

But Disney's attempts to flesh out misunderstood characters like Maleficent and the Evil Queen in Snow White and the Huntsmen didn't yield perfect results, so it makes perfect sense for Disney to examine a rather blah character and give her some much - needed personality for 21st - century ladies.

A sociopath who could have long conversations with Hannibal Lecter and Heath Ledger's Joker (with a sexual ambiguity that would make him seem like an old - fashioned evil - queen character, if the script didn't let Craig defuse that possibility with one line), he's a terrifying opponent in a series that's offered up more than a few stock madmen.

But just like every other cinematic villain to get the revisionist treatment (from Dracula to the Evil Queen), Maleficent is stripped of everything that made her such a great character in the process, and perhaps even more troubling, as the victim of a creepy drug rape that's never addressed.

Additionally, the Red Queen was such a clever AI character that she eventually migrated from the film into the platformers, appearing in Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles.

The history of children's books gives us very few really villainous female characters — and most of them are witches or evil queens.