How About a Nice Shiny Apple, Dearie?

Grimm. Once Upon a Time. Beauty and the Beast. Cinderella. Jack the Giant Killer. Sleeping Beauty. Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters (seriously!).

See a pattern forming there? Yup, fairy tales have never been more popular in Hollywood than they are right now—those are all TV shows and movies currently in production or preproduction. And before that you had the Twilight-y Red Riding Hood. Fairy tales are the new black! The new vampires! People can’t seem to get enough of them… which is good, because 2012 has two film adaptations of Snow White on the way.

First out of the gate will be Mirror, Mirror, from director Tarsem Singh (Immortals, The Cell). It stars Lily Collins as Snow White, Julia Roberts as the evil queen, and Nathan Lane as… somebody. Not one of the Seven Dwarfs, I’m pretty sure. Then again, those dwarfs in the picture don’t seem especially fairy tale-y to me—could this actually be some kind of sequel to Time Bandits?  😉

Then you’ve got Snow White and the Huntsman, starring Kristen Stewart, Chris Hemsworth, and Charlize Theron as the evil queen. I gotta say, that is one mopey-looking Snow White. But, hey! It’s Thor and the vampire girl versus Aeon Flux—when does low-budget movie studio The Asylum make a mockbuster out of that?

Anyway, you’re probably wondering what all this has to do with The ’Warp. Well, it has everything to do with The ’Warp, because in February 2012 we’ll be releasing our first e-book-only title: Snow White—and just in time to also celebrate the first publication of her tale in the Brothers Grimm’s 1812 collection, Children’s and Household Tales!

Behind that spectacular cover design by our own Mat Postawa, you’ll find not just the timeless story of a young girl preyed upon by her insanely jealous stepmother (I mean, really insane—she start out wanting to eat Snow’s heart!), but also a collection of rare full-color illustrations that were first printed in 1883.

Snow White is the latest addition to our illustrated classics library, joining J. Sheridan Le Fanu’s Carmilla and Edgar Rice Burroughs’s A Princess of Mars on the shelves. This time, however, there won’t be a print version—Snow White will be strictly a PDF e-book available through our store at DriveThru Fiction.com. I’ll have more details for you as we get closer to the publication date.

Mirror, Mirror opens March 16, 2012. Snow White and the Huntsman opens June 1, 2012.

Snow White, the special StarWarp Concepts e-book, hits the Internet on February 21, 2012 for the low, low price of just $1.99.

Come celebrate Snow’s 200th Anniversary with us, and then go out and see her movies!