‘Nobody’s backed off,’ Tarsem tells MTV News of competing ‘Snow White’ projects. By Eric Ditzian, with reporting by Josh Horowitz Kristen Stewart as “Snow White” Photo: Universal In one corner of the fairy tale-meets-Hollywood world, there is Kristen Stewart and mighty Universal Pictures. In the other, there is Julia Roberts and upstart Relativity Pictures. Both sides are pushing forward with “Snow White” adaptations . Only one can boast of having, in Stewart, one of the biggest young names in the business. But the director of the other “Snow White,” Tarsem , not only isn’t worried, but paid Stewart a high compliment when we caught up with him at San Diego Comic-Con. “She’s gorgeous,” he told us, adding that he’d only seen her onscreen work in David Fincher’s “Panic Room.” “She’s great.” For his Snow White, Tarsem cast up-and-comer Lily Collins, looping her into a production that has already kicked off and which will hit theaters months ahead of Stewart’s in 2012. “For me, when I looked at it, I thought there’s only room for one of these,” he explained of the two competing films. “And it looks like there’s more. Nobody’s backed off. I just know that we were ready so much earlier. And thank God for Julia, because when she came in, I got everything my way.” While we have seen photos of Stewart , as well as co-stars Liam Hemsworth and Charlize Theron, in “Snow White and the Huntsman,” thus far from Tarsem’s film, we’ve only seen Collins in character . So what type of evil queen will Roberts end up being? “A mixed-up queen,” Tarsem told us. “I don’t know how to do for the ‘now you shall’ kind of person. For me, [it’s] the personality of a person who looks into the mirror and does all the evil deeds she needs to do. Like serial killers, you outsource your evil: The devil made me do it or I hear voices. It’s kind of one of those people. She does what she does, but she thinks it comes from a place where the person in the mirror tells it to her.” Check out everything we’ve got on “The Brothers Grimm: Snow White.” For young Hollywood news, fashion and “Twilight” updates around the clock, visit HollywoodCrush.MTV.com .
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