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Snow White and the seven Shaolin monks

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Shirley Lau

Her skin is white as snow, her hair is black as ebony and her lips are red as blood . . . but that's where the resemblance ends between the fairytale Snow White and a new film that relocates the classic Brothers Grimm story to 1890s China.

Top local action choreographer Yuen Wo-ping has been approached to direct the Disney movie, which will feature a high-kicking, kung fu-fighting Snow White on the run in China from her wicked stepmother in Hong Kong.

The seven dwarfs also get a mainland make-over, appearing as seven baton-wielding Shaolin monks, according to movie magazine Variety.

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Yuen, who choreographed the action on Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and The Matrix, has not confirmed he will take on the project. If he does, we predict a grisly end for the witch.

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