Kristen Stewart Didn't Do Snow White Sequel Because 'Scripts Were Bad'

Kristen Stewart has spoken about her lucky escape from box-office bomb ‘The Huntsman: Winter’s War’, saying that the scripts she read weren’t up to snuff.

Stewart played Snow White in the first movie of the series, 'Snow White and the Huntsman’, for Universal, but wasn’t invited back for the second movie.

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Controversy surrounded her turn in the 2012 fairy-tale retelling, after it emerged she’d had an affair with the movie’s director Rupert Sanders, notably scandalous because she was still seeing her 'Twilight’ co-star Robert Pattinson at the time.

It was then rumoured that she had been dropped from the planned sequel, but Stewart tells it differently.

“I read a few scripts,” she told Variety.

“None of them were good. None of them were greenlight-able. And I had a meeting with Universal about the places where the story could go. Maybe Chris [Hemsworth] was more into it. I actually don’t f**king know.

“It wasn’t a situation where I got kicked off a movie because I got in trouble. We had been in talks months after that about making something work, and it never came together.”

She added that it was only when a press release about the sequel emerged that she realised she’d been dumped.

“I was like, ‘OK, cool.’ We hadn’t spoken in a long time, but I didn’t know we had broken up,” she said. “So now I’m like… ‘Thank God.'”

Thank God, indeed.

The movie has proved a commercial disaster, making $147 million worldwide, from a budget of $115 million, which after marketing, advertising and others costs will mean that it will likely never turn a profit, despite its star-heavy cast including Charlize Theron, Chris Hemsworth, Emily Blunt and Jessica Chastain.

It was also savaged by critics, currently holding a lowly 16% 'fresh’ rating on reviews aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes.

Stewart is currently starring in Woody Allen’s new movie ‘Cafe Society’, premiering at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.

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