8 months ago
78 
Snow White is the latest Disney fairytale that’s returning to the large surface soon. The 1937 animated film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, is being remade into an upcoming live-action movie produced by Walt Disney Pictures. Snow White’s communicative has been portrayed successful live-action earlier by Lily Collins in 2012’s Mirror Mirror and by Kristen Stewart in 2012’s Snow White and the Huntsman. Those films besides featured Snow’s iconic antagonist, the Evil Queen, who volition of people look successful the upcoming film.
Snow White was really Disney’s archetypal animated diagnostic and is inactive truthful beloved by fans. This live-action movie has been successful the works since 2016, truthful there’s a ton of hype for it — and large controversy. HollywoodLife has rounded up everything we know, truthful far, astir the next Snow White, including the cast, merchandise date, and more.
A country from the animated ‘Snow White.’ (Walt Disney Co. / Courtesy Everett Collection)
Snow White Live-Action Movie Release Date
Snow White volition beryllium released exclusively successful theaters connected March 22, 2024. Disney has not revealed erstwhile the movie volition beryllium disposable connected Disney+, but it volition apt beryllium aft the film’s theatrical run.
After Rachel and Gal’s casting was officially announced, accumulation connected the live-action remake kicked disconnected successful March 2022. Filming concisely paused erstwhile a occurrence damaged the accumulation set astatine Pinewood Studios successful England. Gal confirmed successful April 2022 that she finished filming her scenes, which see philharmonic numbers. Filming concluded successful July 2022.
Who Is Playing Snow White?
Rachel Zegler is the fortunate histrion playing Snow White successful the live-action adaptation. She made her onscreen debut successful Steven Spielberg‘s 2021 remake of West Side Story. She starred other Ansel Elgort and Ariana DeBose and won the Golden Globe for Best Actress — Motion Picture Comedy oregon Musical.
Rachel Zegler astatine the ‘Shazam: Fury of the Gods’ premiere. (Shutterstock)
Rachel’s casting in Snow White was officially announced successful June 2021. “Rachel’s bonzer vocal abilities are conscionable the opening of her gifts,” manager Marc Webb said successful a statement. She besides posted connected Instagram, “Well… hullo to a imagination travel true.” She aboriginal chopped her hairsbreadth into a abbreviated bob to play the Disney princess.
Rachel, who is Latina, faced unfair backlash for being formed successful the pb relation successful Snow White, which she discussed on Variety’s Actors connected Actors bid with Andrew Garfield in January 2022.
“Never successful a cardinal years did I ideate that this would beryllium a anticipation for me. You don’t usually spot Snow Whites that are of Latin descent,” she said successful the interview. “You don’t peculiarly spot radical who look similar maine oregon are maine playing roles similar that. When it was announced, it was a immense happening that was trending connected Twitter for days, due to the fact that each of the radical were angry. We request to emotion them successful the close direction. At the extremity of the day, I person a occupation to bash that I’m truly excited to do. I get to beryllium a Latina princess.”
Rachel Zegler Backlash
The movie hasn’t been released, and it’s already stirred up tons of debate. In caller months, past interviews Rachel Zegler did astir the live-action adaptation resurfaced and went viral online. When the histrion was asked astir the live-action movie’s “modern edge” instrumentality connected Snow White, Rachel told Variety, “I conscionable mean that it’s nary longer 1937. She’s not going to beryllium saved by the prince and she’s not going to beryllium dreaming astir existent love. She’s dreaming astir becoming the person she knows she tin beryllium and the person that her precocious begetter told her that she could beryllium if she was fearless, fair, brave, and true.”
In an interrogation with Extra, Rachel criticized the emotion communicative successful Snow White & The Seven Dwarfs. “The archetypal cartoon came retired successful 1937, and precise evidently so. There’s a large absorption connected her emotion communicative with a feline who virtually stalks her. Weird! Weird! So we didn’t bash that this time,” she said. Rachel besides joked that each of Andrew Burnap’s scenes “could get cut.” Andrew plays a caller antheral quality successful the film. The resurfaced interrogation clips person sparked an aggravated backlash against Rachel, with radical criticizing Rachel’s condemnation of the archetypal film’s emotion story.
i anticipation the satellite becomes kinder
— rachel zegler (she/her/hers) (@rachelzegler) August 11, 2023
i emotion you precise much. everlastingly and ever. retrieve to beryllium kind. dainty each different with patience and empathy. retrieve that you are loved unconditionally, nary substance your mistakes, nary substance your misunderstandings. you merit it. you merit love. you merit to unrecorded without fear. x
— rachel zegler (she/her/hers) (@rachelzegler) August 12, 2023
Rachel cryptically responded to the backlash successful messages she posted connected Twitter/X. “I anticipation the satellite becomes kinder,” she wrote astatine first. She aboriginal added, “I emotion you precise much. Forever and ever. Remember to beryllium kind. Treat each different with patience and empathy. Remember that you are loved unconditionally, nary substance your mistakes, nary substance your misunderstandings. You merit it. You merit love. You merit to unrecorded without fear. x.”
David Hand, the lad of an animator who helped nonstop the archetypal movie, slammed Disney’s “woke” remake of the 1937 classic. “I mean, it’s a full antithetic concept, and I conscionable wholly disagree with it, and I cognize my dada and Walt would besides precise overmuch disagree with it,” helium told The Telegraph. He added that it’s a “bit insulting” what Disney has done with the “classic films. David continued, “There’s nary respect for what Disney did and what my dada did… I deliberation Walt and helium would beryllium turning successful their graves.”
Snow White Cast & Crew
Rachel volition prima opposite Gal Gadot, who is playing the Evil Queen. Gal is champion known for playing Wonder Woman successful assorted films successful the DC Extended Universe, including Wonder Woman, the sequel Wonder Woman 1984, and Justice League. Gal was officially formed in Snow White in November 2021 and teased the relation astatine the premiere of her Netflix film Red Notice that month. “I can’t accidental overmuch different than the information that I’m truthful excited, and I cannot hold to get into the shoes and the crown of the Evil Queen,” she told People.
The last prima confirmed for the remake is Andrew Burnap, who is playing a caller quality named Jonathan. Andrew starred successful the Broadway accumulation The Inheritance and won a Tony Award. He appeared successful the 2018 movie The Chaperone and has had tv roles successful Younger, The Good Fight, WeCrashed, and Under the Banner of Heaven.
Gal Gadot astatine the ‘Red Notice’ premiere. (Matt Baron/Shutterstock)
Marc Webb is directing the Snow White remake. He antecedently directed The Amazing Spider-Man and its sequel which starred Andrew Garfield. Greta Gerwig and Erin Cressida Wilson are penning the screenplay, portion Marc Platt is producing. Mandy Walker is the cinematographer, Mark Sanger is the editor, and the euphony is by the songwriting duo Pasek & Paul, who antecedently worked connected La La Land and The Greatest Showman. Walt Disney Pictures is producing and distributing the remake.
Snow White Plot Details
The live-action Snow White is expected to “expand upon the communicative and euphony from the beloved animated classic,” according to The Hollywood Reporter. The movie volition see “new songs” akin to the live-action remake of The Little Mermaid.
The communicative of Snow White comes from the 1812 fairytale by the Brothers Grimm. The live-action movie is an adaptation of the 1937 animated film, which was loosely based connected the fairytale. Expected to spot the magic mirror, the poisoned apple, and the solid coffin, and much successful the remake.
More details astir the crippled are not presently known. Disney debuted the archetypal trailer astatine the D23 Expo successful September 2022, but the footage has not been released wide. Rachel’s astonishing absorption was caught connected video, which you tin spot here. She teared up astatine the crowd’s response! “I didn’t adjacent spot it! I didn’t spot what you guys saw!” she said.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Photo: ©Walt Disney Co. / Courtesy Everett Collection)
Snow White Controversy
Snow’s allies, the Seven Dwarfs, are expected to look successful the live-action adaptation. However, the movie has travel nether occurrence by Game of Thrones alum Peter Dinklage, who has a signifier of dwarfism. He criticized the remake during an interrogation connected Marc Maron‘s podcast successful January 2022. “It makes nary consciousness to me. You’re progressive successful 1 way, but past you’re inactive making that f**king backwards communicative astir 7 dwarfs surviving successful a cave together, what the f**k are you doing, man?” Peter said.
Disney responded to his disapproval successful a connection and said “to debar reinforcing stereotypes from the archetypal animated film, we are taking a antithetic attack with these 7 characters and person been consulting with members of the dwarfism community.”
