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With the success of Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland, Hollywood has found a new fairy tale to tackle: Snow White!

Inception's Tom Hardy is circling the key role of Eric, The Huntsman in "Snow White and the Huntsman," a spec script by writer Evan Daugherty. The story takes a "revisionist buddy movie spin" on the tale, with the huntsman hired by the evil queen to locate her runaway stepdaughter.

Universal has fast tracked the project and, according to The Playlist, the studio is courting Angelina Jolie to play Ravenna, the evil queen/villain of the story.

After Jolie finishes her Bosnian War love story, she has another possible rival fairy tale project on the horizon: Tim Burton's Maleficent. While Jolie has expressed interest in this script as well, nothing has yet been decided...