McG Producing Snow White? Don't Cry, There's Still Hope.

McG: making filmgoers twinge uncomfortably since 2000.

There's been a rumor for a few months that McG, the man who's been producing vapid TV shows and ruining Terminator for the past couple years, was interested in making an "edgy" version of Snow White for the big screen.

Now, the idea for a darker Snow White isn't a bad one by any means; take 1997's Snow White: A Tale Of Terror, for example.  It might have been made-for-TV, but it was hyper-violent and quite the opposite of our Disney-fueled perception of the story.  Can McG, of all people, make the same kind of changes, but on a grander scale?

News today says he might have some help.

Rumor has it that none other than Jean-Pierre Jeunet (Amelie, Micmacs, Delicatessen) has expressed interest in the project, possibly as a director.  Even more interesting are the whispers that Natalie Portman could be lining up to play the Fairest of Them All.  

If either one of these rumors is true, then McG might be in luck and we'll all owe him an apology for ever doubting him.  Of course, that's only if he promises never to make another Charlie's Angels.