EXCLUSIVE
Relativity Media has closed a deal with Tarsem Singh to direct an untitled feature based on the Brothers Grimm's classic fairy tale "Snow White" that will begin production in March, the company has confirmed to TheWrap.
Melisa Wallack ("Meet Bill") wrote the 3D movie, which is described as an edgy, modernized re-imagining that will hew closely to the Grimms' original German folk tale.
The story follows Snow White as she teams up with a gang of seven quarrelsome dwarves to save her late father's kingdom from her evil stepmother.
While Tarsem is best known for directing the visually inventive Jennifer Lopez serial killer thriller "The Cell," it was his critically acclaimed 2006 fantasy film "The Fall" that most impressed Relativity execs.