Saoirse Ronan to play non-Snow White in Disney's Snow White movie that isn't a Snow White movie, it swears

By Sean O'Neal | February 13, 2012 | 5:45pm

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The great Snow White war of 2012 has yet to begin, but it already claimed its first casualty (besides all of those production assistants that Julia Roberts strangled for kicks): Back in August, Disney officially modified its long-gestating Snow And The Seven—a kung fu-inflected version of the tale in which the dwarfs were also Shaolin monks—into the less-obvious Order Of The Seven, dropping the dwarfs entirely and remaking it as a standalone action film about an Englishwoman in 19th-century Hong Kong who seeks the protection of a group of seven warriors turned outlaws. (A group that also bears no resemblance to The Seven Samurai, no way, so why even bring that up?)

Anyway, Variety confirms that the film definitely has “cut all ties to the classic tale” that now stars Hanna’s Saoirse Ronan, including dropping elements such as a magic mirror and allowing her guardians to be of normal human height. As it is, the only slight connection that remains to Snow White is the fact that she’s fighting an “evil empress” and, of course, the alabaster swirl of Ronan’s skin. This should effectively stop everyone from referring to it as “a Snow White reboot,” at least in easy ways that wouldn’t then require a paragraph of explanation as to how it’s not anymore, really. So, thanks for that.