‘Snow White’ and How Its ‘Lord of the Rings’ Connection Led to Warrior Dwarves

"Snow White and the Huntsman" writer Evan Daugherty talks about the Hobbity-y genesis of the project, the surprising casting of the leads — and getting kicked off his own project

What does Snow White, a fairly tale about the fairest woman in the land, have to do with “Lord of the Rings” and the battle for Middle-earth?

Quite a bit, according to Evan Daugherty, who wrote a spec script nearly a decade ago that blended the two tales.

Daughtery was enamored of  the film version of “Lord of the Rings” trilogy while an undergraduate at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.

Lucky for him, Joe Roth and Universal soon shared his affinity for this fairy-fantasy blend, turning Daugherty's script into director Rupert Sanders' “Snow White and the Huntsman.”

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