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Producer Joe Roth is looking to re-team with his "Alice in Wonderland" star Johnny Depp. The Oscar-nominated actor has been offered the male lead in Universal's upcoming tentpole "Snow White and the Huntsman," an individual familiar with the project has told TheWrap.

When pressed for comment, Depp's representation at UTA referred TheWrap to Universal, which refused to comment on casting rumors/offers.

The revisionist take on the classic fairy tale marks the feature directorial debut of acclaimed British commercials director Rupert Sanders, who will be working from a buzzworthy spec script by Evan Daugherty that was the subject of an intense Hollywood bidding war before Universal snapped it up for $1.5 million against more than $3 million.

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If it wasn’t for the Australian rain, ‘Hollywood’s most wanted’ Tom Hardy and South African beauty Charlize Theron would have been shooting Warner Bros. delayed Mad Max: Fury Road right now. However, still eager to go toe-to-toe with each other, the pair are circling a fast-tracked tentpole at a rival studio.

Universal are pushing forward with Snow White and the Huntsmen, a re-imagining of the Brothers Grimm fable that screenwriter Evan Daugherty (‘Grayskull’) sold to the studio this year in a $1.5 million over $3 million deal. They want Theron and Hardy to star.

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Inception break-out star Tom Hardy is close to signing up for Universal’s Snow White and the Huntsman.

The 33-year-old English actor would take on the lead male role of the Huntsman while the studio reportedly wants Angelina Jolie to play evil queen Ravenna.

Tom has been busy in Vancouver shooting This Means War with Chris Pine, Reese Witherspoon, and Chelsea Handler. Next year, he will also be busy shooting Christopher Nolan’s third Batman pic.

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Just a couple of days after we learned Tom Hardy was circling “Snow White And The Huntsman,” a bit more potential casting news is trickling forth. While Angelina Jolie was also being courted to join the film, which looks to start shooting in early ‘11 under neophyte director Rupert Sanders, it seemed more like a longshot studio wish given that the actress is right in the midst of shooting her directorial debut and would most likely be in post-production at that time.

So who better to join Hardy than his intended “Mad Max” co-star Charlize Theron? Word is now building that the actress, with the same gap in her schedule caused by that picture’s postponement, might be joining him in the role previously slotted for Jolie.

Theron would play Ravenna, the evil queen who sends a bounty hunter (Hardy) out to retrieve the escaped Snow White. Theron, who has done her fair share of mopey dramatic roles, would get to wear a ridiculous getup and cackle a bit, a welcome change of pace from the Oscar winner’s usual palette. We do hope she saved some of those “Monster” prosthetics. If the project takes shape, it will have to utilize the couple of months in between Hardy’s role in “This Means War” and “The Dark Knight Rises,” while Theron is currently filming “Young Adult” for director Jason Reitman, and her calendar seems a bit more open headed into new year.