As many of you already noted in yesterday’s post, it’s not a sure thing that Kristen Stewart has been dropped from the sequel for Snow White and the Huntsman. More than 24 hours ago, The Hollywood Reporter (re: not a tabloid, an actual industry-heavy publication that often breaks news) reported that Kristen was out of the sequel, and that it was the studio that dropped her. THR’s sources seem to have come from the studio (Universal), and I made the point that it sounded more like Kristen wasn’t jazzed about the sequel, and the studio wasn’t jazzed about her, and they came to a mutual breakup. But now studio sources are scrambling, claiming that Universal has not made any decisions either way:
Still the fairest one of all? Kristen Stewart has not been fired or dropped from a planned Snow White and the Huntsman sequel, a rep for Universal tells Us Weekly.
Late Tuesday, The Hollywood Reporter claimed that the 22-year-old star — infamously caught last month cheating on boyfriend Robert Pattinson with the film’s married director Rupert Sanders — “will not be invited to return” to the franchise.
But The Hollywood Reporter got it wrong.
Clarifies a Universal spokesperson to Us: “We are exploring options to continue the franchise and no decisions have been made.”
Starring Stewart and Chris Hemsworth in the title roles plus Charlize Theron, the fairy-tale inspired action-fantasy film grossed nearly $400 million worldwide — making Stewart the only Twilight headline star to see major blockbuster success outside of the vampire franchise.
Universal Co-Chairman Donna Langley also released a statement: “We are extremely proud of Snow White and the Huntsman and we’re currently exploring all options to continue the franchise. Any reports that Kristen Stewart has been dropped are false.” Hm.
So how did THR (and Deadline) get it so wrong? Could it have been a case of some studio people mouthing off before any official decisions were made? Was it a case of sending out a test balloon to see how people would react to the idea of Kristen being dropped from the SWATH sequel? Or was it like I originally thought, that Kristen isn’t excited about the prospect of returning for a sequel, and the studio was making plans in case she doesn’t return? Whatever the situation, I’m not going to play the “pity poor Kristen” game with this one, because given her withdrawal from Cali and her current lack of visibility, I really think she’s the one making the decision to drop out of sight for a while.
Meanwhile, to make matters even worse for Kristen, all of Robert Pattinson’s friends are encouraging him to completely dump her. Us Weekly claims Tom Sturridge and his baby mama Sienna Miller (who knows a thing or two about homewrecking) have been “begging Rob to end it for good… they think she will hurt Rob again.” Kristen’s friends told Us Weekly, “Her friends think she doesn’t know how to deal with this” because Rob is the one playing noncommittal and let’s-play-it-by-ear. Ah, how the tables have turned.
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.
The penultimate picture …
Oh yeah. Definitely the fairest one of all. Move over, Grace Kelly -_-
LOL So true.
what the heck is she doing looking in her jeans in that third pic?
It’s a good thing she isn’t part of this sequel. Imagine all the rumors if she would film it with that sleazy director. I think it’s for the best.
I don’t really like her right now (well I haven’t liked her in a while, she acts like an ungrateful brat (swearing, flipping the bird, asking for someone to fuck her over so she can have a tough life) but I hope this whole affair scandal will open her eyes. I hope she will get her self sorted out, that she’ll act like her age and stop being such a whiney, ungrateful rich b*tch.
She’s checking on her herpes outbreak.
Trying to decide which antibiotic to use on that “situation”?
I wonder if the director’s wife told him get her the hell out of the picture or you’ll be getting the hell out of our house. And I’ll take half of everything you think you own.
Probably a bad case of the Crabs.
LOL! What the hell is doing in the third pic? Oh I know! She is just checking if her underwear is on or she had forgotten it in somebody’s bed.
Not bed, hon. Car.
@ Amelia, Phedra and Frespirited girl,
And why do you all care what she does,
who are you to critize her?
You come across as jealous and evidently envy her success.
What she did or didn’t do is none of your business?
As for the finger, it’s people like you who she should give the finger to.
Nurse … yeah, *nurse*!
Sallyreo’s out of bed again.
and you sallyreo, come across as a freakin lunatic..
@ Amelia
LOL. Classic.
I can’t help but agree on the “tables turned” comment. They do appear to have switched roles.
She still has potential to be the next Angelina Jolie I think. Angelina hooked up on-set with a married man……and you all just love her.
Uh…No.
You’re missing the big differences between Jolie and Stewart.
I think Kristen has the potential to be the next Leanne Rimes.
I’ll refrain from even commenting on the KStew mess here. However, my primary point is this:
SIENNA MILLER is advising ANYONE to dump another person because they’re a cheater?!
*pulls ears and smacks head repeatedly*
OK, NO WAY. Did I really just effing hear that from the mouth of the world’s BIGGEST hooker/ home wrecker?
What a freaking HYPOCRITE. 🙁
Kristen learned the checking the crotch move from Rupert Sanders.
the studio surely wants to cash in but it wasnt a huge hit so its not like they will do everything in their power.
Kristen surely wants people to forget about it and thats why i doubt she would do another Snow White. even if everything was ready and they just needed to start shooting it would take a long time for the movie to be released. they would be under close scrunity while shooting and everything about the cheating would be mentioned again by the time it would be released.
i doubt she wants people to have such a good reminder when its 2013.
and if rupert sanders wants his family back and doesnt want to be seen as an even bigger douche he will also not direct or produce it.
Hollywood doesn’t work that way.
It is simply a question of money. Who cares what the participants do.
Public is still outraged by Roman Polanski 30yrs after the fact, and yet he continues to work and is supported by Hollywood.
It is only a matter of pr to gloss over the facts.
I do think she’s likely quietly being removed as best they can.
Movies these days are very sequel happy and no matter how poorly Kristin did it seems unlikely they’d just immediately boot her from the 2nd film if there wasn’t an outside motivation. More likely they’d have done two films with her and THEN switch it focus more on the huntsmen so that the transition feels more natural and they don’t turn off the fans.
It just seems too suspect that they’re basically saying “Well we’re exploring possibilities without her” right when all this is going down. I doubt they’d fire her purely over the scandal, I do think the combination of scandal, poor ticket sales and public complaint over her acting/role opened the door to possibly even talk of giving her the boot just 1 film in.
they publicly said they were exploring other possibilities before the movie even came out. It sounds like her coming back was a possibility, one the perv director(cough) favored. But universal chief outright said he wanted a huntsman cnetered sequel. I don’t think they were that enthused with her the first time around.
Sienna Miller should not be advising anybody about anything when it comes to relationships since she was caught cheating with a married man herself.
I think Universal’s hasty reply was due to the outcry of Stewart’s being fired and her (bed?)partner in crime Sanders could keep his job with SWATH. Sanders also has a project of his picked up by Universal so it makes it worse. Universal is playing it by ear; it’s biding its time to gauge public reaction to Stewart in general to see if it’s financially smart to put her in the sequel
This is exactly what I thought, Aquarius.
It seems like damage control. They don’t want the backlash and they don’t want to seem as sexist. Kristen could have sued them if that were the case, I think.
This is all projection.
Universal started talking about a huntsman sequel before SWATH came out. Ron Mayer, head of Universal said the SW story was done and they were exploring several options.
The screenwriter of SWATH left the project because he was only hired to do a SWATH type script. THIS is what has somehow been re-imagined to mean that KS is out.
Amazingly no one appears to be concerned about the fate of Charlize in this phantom sequel.
Charlize’s character died, so it would be quite odd for her to be in the sequel.
http://www.tmz.com/2012/08/16/kristen-stewart-pissed-fall-guy-rupert-sanders-robert-pattinson/
Apparently Kristen is pissed off that she’s the bad buy in this situation. She’s playing the victim and saying that he’s older and in a position of power.
1) You weren’t filming when you had your photographed tryst
2) Read TMZ comment #4. Nuff said
3) You’re both bad guys. If he didn’t have the common sense to not ruin the lives of his wife and CHILDREN then you should have.
Where is the solidarity amongst women?
Most women posting on these boards have been very tough on Stew….and for good reason, not because of “societal misogyny”. It’s because of woman solidarity, What used to be called a home wrecking hussy (hrh) is a profound threat to women with children to raise. It threatens To divert substantial resources, including the fathers attention and assistance, as well as financial, away from wife and child to another woman and her children. It can make a huge difference in life outcomes for children. That’s why stories like that resonate In a deep, atavistic way with women.
As for Sienna, some more table turning here! She was the HRH, now she has a baby and she is the one potentially threatened by a younger HRH.
boredsubwife: I highly doubt the anger towards kristen is her lack of female solidarity. No one liked her here before either, her lame assness recently simply gave everyone more to work with. I’m telling you right now, if Emma Stone had cheated, people would have given her more leeway cause she’s more likeable. This is about not liking someone, and enjoying watching them be knocked down several notches after seeming arrogant and entitled.
I think that, only if your relationship lacks the trust and loyalty, you could think that someone outside of your relationship is a threat and a reason to worry. In my eyes, people who see problem on the person your partner cheated with are the ones who can’t admit to themselves that THEIR partner betrayed them and that he’s the problem.
Oh, and solidarity between women? Why not solidarity between all people, if we are all equal? I like the idea of women solidarity, but every time I counted on one, I got s*rewed.
Group of my lifelong friends, when one of my ex-bf cheated on me (girl in another city etc.), and who were swearing they’d stand by me if it’s true and that they’ll always be on my side (he was a hot commodity, but I knew those people from my baby days)-stayed friends with him and even accused me of “making it difficult” when I refused to hang out when he was around. They were all girls.
On the other hand, that same group, when I kissed another guy after my then-boyfriend emotionally checked-out of a relationship, refused to get in touch with me and was dragging me through violent emotional roller-coaster, treated me like the worst villain there was, while cuddling him and praising him, because he was popular, hot and every one of them wanted to be his rebound. That’s women solidarity for you. And I’m not the only example.
Wouldn’t it be logical that, in this case, solidarity reaches to Stewart, young girl who’s being shamed and blackballed, and anger (or most of the anger) goes to Sanders, a 40+ year old married creep who destroyed his marriage? Stewart apologized and admitted guilt, so I don’t believe in all that:”she’s not even remorseful”. Unless you know her personally, her public actions (apology, dropping out of a film) shows that she is.
@bored suburbanhousewife – HRH 🙂 love it!
on a different note, atavistic….you hit the nail on the head!! Alot of responses to certain threads/media stories tend to that attitude, and if you don’t agree then you are atomatically mysogynist or ‘jealous hater’.
Why is it always the homewrecker’s fault? It takes two to tango. It was the husbands choice to cheat.
she’s a complete idiot for doing what she did, and if I were Rob, I’d leave her ass asap. But Rupert is coming out unscathed professionally from this, while she takes the brunt of it. I’d be pissed too.
I think, because relationship is usually Between two people, that women should concentrate on The other person on their commited relationship and how much they are thrustworthy, and not demand “solidarity” from someone
aaaahhh, I pressed “publish” before I was finished and now I can’t edit-and I posted reply to a wrong commenter. ugh, sorry!
She should be dropped from the movie because they’re going in a different direction (all Chris Hemsworth please) and not cause she cheated, which is ridiculous to even speculate over. As long as she’s making the studio money they could care less what she does in her private life, however if she doesn’t drop out of sight soon and let this blow over, she’s not going to be making anybody any money..
Also, while I agree with TomStu, Sienna saying ANYTHING for or against is beyond ridiculous..
ITA with everything you said, Marie. Nice to hear a voice of reason.
The one thing I would say about her “disappearing” from Hollywood for a while is that career-wise it is a risky move. I understand that she needs to lay low and chose new projects carefully but to disappear for too long could really hurt her career. Hollywood has a short-term memory and it’s always looking for the Next Big Thing. I’m not sure she’s talented enough to not be easily and swiftly replaced once she’s forgotten about.
that’s true, maybe she just needs to put her nose to the grind, solider through and let her work speak for her, because her PR (like in the other article) is doing a horrible job. Just let it go, stop trying to make excuses, own up to it and prove she learned her lesson. Channel all the hurt, anger, and resentment into a good performance and people will forget and forgive..
yes, the studio is about money bottom line. But that goes back to the fact that Rupert has other projects lined up with Universal, and in that respect he may be more valuable to them. If one of them had to leave the project, then kristen might have been the more expendable one for them.
since he’s only directed one film then he’s gotta be cheaper right? I’m still not convinced the Stewart was ever attached to the sequel, and that’s simply because I can’t see what else they could do with SW, she got her ever after.
Sienna Miller offered advice on a cheating partner? Collapses under the weight of irony.
Exactly. I can not believe this statement because Miller could not have been stupid enough to invite the ridicule this story would bring her. I don’t believe she would do that to herself. You can’t believe much of this stuff anymore. Stories getting more and more desperate.
The pictures are old pictures, the man is her trainer.
No, isn’t he the director of Cali?
That’s not her trainer, it’s Nick Cassavettes, the director of Cali.
The movie wasn’t even that good to justify a sequel and the Huntsman didn’t have any depth as character to justify a spinoff.
And THE SCORPION KING or CATWOMAN did??
THE HUNTSMAN has alot of potential, and i don’t just mean as played by Helmsworth. It’s the scope of the Character.
I agree with you, Beth.
The Huntsman was a cliched character (all upset because of a wife we never even got to see? Yawn).
Yes, he was played by hottie Hemsworth, who gave him some depth, but the character itself was boring.
If she is let go, I hope it’s due to budgeting and/or her attitude, NOT because of the affair and that fallout. Only because it’s a double standard if the Douche is rehired and she isn’t. 2012 and women still get the worst of it in most cases. If it is because of the affair fallout.. I say ok alls fair, no bad Par wanted, but then don’t hire the Douche director either. It takes 2!!
Totally agree!
+1
What the heck is she doing in the second photo? Checking..what? LOL
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ah ah ah ah Sienna Miller ah ah ah ah …just too hilarious.
oh, yeah, I bet Tom and Sienna are really apalled by the the thought that Kristen cheated. Sienna’s broken up several marriages, and Tom sorta dicked around and put his on/off gf on hold for years. The rest of Rob’s group are musicians who have serious ho reputations, like Bobby Long.
Rob’s friends are hardly prissy folks, they get around. I love how the media’s actually morphed Rob into a virginal Edward Cullen more than the fans at this point.
I’m so tired of all the hate towards this young woman, she didn’t break up a family, Rupert did that. She is young and young people make mistakes. I think she has had enough punishment now, so from now on I’m going to be on Team Kristen!
I hate it when people say the other person didn’t break up the marriage. Technically her presence is a factor in the now messed up family that Liberty Ross has to take the brunt of. To say that Kristen has no blame is silly and to say that Rupert should have all the blame is equally silly. They both deserve the same amount of blame as they were equal partners in this affair. No one forces anyone to cheat on their wife, and no one forced her to cheat knowing he had a wife and 2 kids.
You are fine to support Kristen but I am tired of how the automatic thing to do is to equate this all the to the labelling of women. If that’s the case, we all know how it is for us women and the double standard that exists but I will not give her support. My support goes to the woman who has two kids to raise and was greatly disrespected by the man who she seemed so happy to support in all his ventures. She had his back in all the career advancement and stepped aside only to have him view it as a chance to stray.
Yeah we are all young and we all make mistakes but I don’t understand why Kristen should get all the pity when the people who did nothing to provoke the situation get next to no consideration; the children. They deserve your pity, not Kristen Stewart or Rupert Sanders.
Absolute right, camilla. More Team Liberty
The girl’s acting is awful, I see more emotion in the last picture that in all of her movies. I don’t understand why is she still around in the movies world. She’s not a beauty,so WHY? maybe a devil pact, I don’t know, a mistery itself!
I want those shoes in the last picture!
It really has to suck losing him. I think that’s why I can’t get down with the hate-a-thon, I think losing him is punishment enough for pulling the BS she pulled.
The studio dumped her but doesn’t want it to look sexist because it isn’t. They planned to dump her all along.
She looks like a f–king hobo.
how pathetic of them if they remove her from the sequal!!!!! she’s a great actress and what she does with her private life is her affair
she’s a great actress…
LMFAO, this is the most hilarious thing I ever read. If being a great actress is playing the same character for almost all of her movies -one note emo suicidal girl- maybe you’re right. It’s like the comparision between Stewart and Katherine Hepburn in imdb LOL
Insider info…..SWATH is now being developed without SW and is being made into a spinoff for The Huntsman, the only thing that will resurrect a smaller KS role in the film will be a huge swing in public opinion about her recent antics.
I thought that was the plan all along, to make a Huntsman spin-off without SW.