14 Years Later, Chris Hemsworth’s Dark Fantasy Reimagining Is Becoming a Streaming Cult Classic

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14 Years Later, Chris Hemsworth's Dark Fantasy Reimagining Is Becoming a Streaming Cult Classic

As anyone in her position would, Kristen Stewart attempted to capitalize on the success of The Twilight Saga by securing another possible franchise for herself. The project she chose to headline was seemingly put together with an almost algorithmic recipe for success. It featured a newly minted Marvel Cinematic Universe star, and the tone and texture of Game of Thrones. The movie was dark, brooding, and epic in scale, like so many would-be franchise films in the post-Dark Knight era. However, the meticulous planning didn’t exactly pay off. The movie opened to mixed reviews and did unremarkable business at the box office. Still, the final nail in its coffin was a devastating pre-release scandal that forced Stewart to publicly apologize. Despite its subpar performance, the movie recently saw a surge in viewership on streaming.

The movie was released in 2012, a year after HBO premiered Game of Thrones and only a few months before the release of the final Twilight movie — The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 2. Produced on a reported budget of $170 million, the film grossed a hair under $400 million worldwide. It’s now sitting at a 48% score on the aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, where the critics’ consensus highlighted its “uneven acting, problematic pacing, and a confused script.” Interestingly, it marked one of the earliest big-budget feature projects in cinematographer Greig Fraser‘s career — he’d go on to win an Oscar for his work on Dune, in addition to working on projects such as Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Vice, and the upcoming Project Hail Mary.

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Fraser also worked on The Batman, starring former Twilight breakout Robert Pattinson, which brings us back to Stewart’s film. We’re talking, of course, about Snow White and the Huntsman, whose release was overshadowed by the scandal around Stewart’s affair with the film’s director, Rupert Sanders. Snow White and the Huntsman also featured Chris Hemsworth and Charlize Theron, both of whom returned for a sequel of sorts that didn’t involve Stewart. Titled The Huntsman: Winter’s War, the movie featured Emily Blunt and Jessica Chastain, and underperformed with around $160 million worldwide against a reported budget of $115 million. According to FlixPatrol, Snow White and the Huntsman was among the most-watched movies on the global Disney+ charts this week, 14 years after its theatrical underperformance. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.