Disney’s live performance remakes the 1937 animation classic”snow White Seven Dwarves “suspended a difficult production period in this weekend’s drama premiere.
Since its production began in 2022, the film has made several controversial headlines, including a year-long delay, a debate over whether its portrayal of the title character is politically correct, and a blunt protagonist, prompting her to publicly mock the original Disney film and Trump’s Americans.
Here are five major controversies, before Friday’s release, when Disney’s reality show Snow White plagued Disney’s reality show Snow White, when it began to take medium reviews – “Its mediocrity is its biggest frustration,” said a New York Times critic.
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“Snow White” star Rachel Zegler is at the Hollywood premiere of the new movie. (Rodin Eckenroth / Stringer)
Disney’s portrayal of the dwarf is shaken
Three years before the film was released, an A-level actor with the Dwarves prompted Walt Disney studio to work on recreating the portrayal of the classic “Seven Dwarves” character.
“Game of Thrones” actor Peter Dinklage Called a recording room Even considering the stimulation of modern depicting magic dwarves.
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After Dinklage’s complaint, Disney announces When depicting the seven dwarves, it will take a “different approach”. “To avoid strengthening stereotypes from the original animated films, we are taking a different approach with these seven characters and have been consulting with members of the dwarf community,” the studio said in a statement released in January 2022.
Disney will eventually use the CGI Dwarf to portray Snow White’s seven friends in the final product.
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Disney Characters (LR) Doc, Happy Dwarfs and Sleepy Dwarfs can be seen at Walt Disney World Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. For the 2025 remake, the film has caused controversy over how the character of the dwarf is portrayed.
Chief actress slams the original spirit of animation
Lead actress Rachel Zegler has bounced back to social media on various occasions since the start of film production Send theme The classic version of “Snow White” in 1937.
During Disney’s D23 Expo 2022, the actress told the media: “I mean, you know, the original cartoon was released in 1937, and it was obvious. It was obvious that her love story was very focused on her love story, someone who literally looked at her.
Since then, Zegler has Disbanded her online criticsuggesting that their reaction was a “outsighted” response to her and was “fareless” with her views.
Relatedly, the 2025 film doesn’t sing her true love in the way Snow White does, but she does stand out to be the leader she knows she can be. Although there is no prince in the live action release, her male love does save her life on two different occasions.
The movie was postponed for a full year
After Disney’s description of the dwarf and Zegler’s rebound, the studio announced in the second half of 2023 that this will be Delayed release The date of “Snow White and the Seven Dwarves” for a whole year. The film was originally scheduled to be released in March 2024.
Given the film’s tough production by then, Disney’s social media critics speculated that the studio would need a year’s delay to sanitize the film’s so-called progressive themes and change the final look of the dwarf after laughing at their so-called diverse portrayals online.
Industry media “Hollywood Reporter” Another theory is providedsuggesting that the delay was caused by the sagging strike that occurred that year. It noted that “as the studio rearranges their 2024 drama release calendar in an ongoing cast strike, Dominoes is starting to take it seriously for Dominoes.”
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“Snow White” restarts actress Rachel Zegler pushes people backlash by devaluing the traditional romantic themes of the original animated film. (Gilbert Flores/Variety by Getty Images)
Zegler speaks in the Middle East, attacking Trump voters
In addition to raising her opinions on the old Snow White and how modernity should be updated, Zegler also fell into greater opposition by sharing her ideas in the Middle East. Promote her new movie.
The actress wrote that in an August 2024 X post, promoting the official trailer of “Snow White”, “Always remember, Free Palestine”.
Some wonder if the political message has done a subtle dig to the film co-star Gal Gadot, who defends her native Israel’s military response to the October 7, 2023 Hamas terrorist attack.
Zegler aroused more anger when she was frustrated by the outcome of the 2024 presidential election. She lashed out The people who voted for Donald Trump.
The progressive actress posted on Instagram after Trump’s victory, adding: “May Trump supporters and Trump voters and Trump himself never know about peace.”
Zegler apologized after meeting with Swift.
“I want to sincerely apologize for the election post I shared on Instagram last week. I have given my emotions my best. Hate and anger keep us moving further away from peace and understanding, I’m sorry, I contributed to negative words.”
“Snow White” star Rachel Zegler slams his supporters after President Donald Trump’s election victory.
Disney Zoom Movie Hollywood Premiere
The move prompted bystanders to doubt whether Disney acknowledged the attention it received about the movie, the recording room Scale backwards Last weekend, the Hollywood premiere of “Snow White”.
Variety shows reported last week that Disney will scale back the red carpet premiere of the movie on March 15, making it smaller than Disney’s typical large budget premiere.
The smaller red carpet event is reportedly not attended by media that usually attend the premiere and talk to the cast and staff of the film. Although movie stars Rachel Zegler and Gal Gadot attended parties and screenings at the El Capitan Theatre in Los Angeles on March 15, the variety show reported that media reports included only photographers and a House staff member.
In response to the report, actor Martin Klebba expressed the role of a “grunt-tempered” dwarf Express disappointment About Zoom premiere.
“I’m not disappointed with Disney. I’m disappointed with the world,” he said. “We’re coming to a society where people work very hard on this movie,” Mark said. [Webb]The director has been integrating it together for about four years. [along with] The producer and Disney, just because not everyone has the same viewpoint, now we have to change the fun of making the movie, which is the premiere. ”
Conservative film critic Christian Toto, Hollywood hosts on Toto podcastsummarizing the controversial hindering developments in Disney films, telling Fox News digital numbers that it is a “perfect storm of poor media management.” A reporter who runs his own website,”Hollywood, Toto,The movie’s box office hopes “because of many controversies, and therefore, due to many controversies.”
Toto said that in terms of Snow White’s box office revenue, it was not bad luck and melancholy. “It may still make some cash, and the Disney brand is still crucial in some ways, with children’s movies often going on in the theater for weeks. This allows parents who appreciate it to grab a few hours,” he said.
“However, Disney stepped on the rake a few times along the way, hurting its overall box office potential,” he concluded.
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