Snow White And The Seven...Ninjas?

Hollywood's well of creativity, I fear, has completely dried. I used to think it was totally dried up and empty, but no, they dug several feet deeper and struck even more dry dirt.

From The Daily Mail Online: Disney to Turn Snow White and the Seven Dwarves Into Ninja Action Movie

Disney is to remake the legendary cartoon Snow White and the Seven Dwarves as a warrior action movie set in China.

In an unusual move, the film will not focus on Snow but will instead follow the seven companions, reinterpreted as nineteenth century warriors from a centuries-old order who have lost their way across the world. Each will be from a different area of the world and will have a unique fighting style.

They will eventually find redemption after meeting an English woman fleeing from her evil stepmother.

Natalie Portman is rumoured to have been approached to play Snow.

Disney has been working on the project, titled The Order of the Seven, since 2002 in an effort completely to rework the 1937 classic.

The film, which was originally called Snow and the Seven, has been worked on by script writers including Michael Chabon, Jayson Rothwell and Michael Arndt, who wrote Toy Story 3.

The director will be Michael Gracey, a visual effects specialist, after Francis Lawrence, who directed Water for Elephants and I Am Legend, pulled out.

You can always tell the quality of a movie based on how many writers and directors have been involved with the project. This one - in the works since 2002! - has all the makings of an abject failure. Sure, it's an adaptation of the fairy tale, but...ninjas?

Maybe since China owes so much of our debt, Disney figures they have to make China look cool and awesome, to keep them happy and whatnot. Maybe China was cool and awesome in the 19th century - nowadays, they're anything but.

I wonder what other remakes/adaptations are in the works, since that seems to be the movie industry's last remaining talent (although Inception was a really cool movie).