Live action Snow White reoriginate’s trailer renews talk about about casting, dwarfs : NPR

Heigh-ho, heigh-ho, it’s off to online uproar factory we go. The first treliever trailer for the upcoming inhabit-action reoriginate of Disney’s Snow White is here.

Starring Rachel Zegler as Snow White and Gal Gadot as the Evil Queen, the pair begind the highly anticipated treliever at Disney’s D23 Expo Friday evening, with a free scheduled for March 21, 2025. Featuring first glimpses of Zegler singing “Whistle While You Work” and Gadot talking to her mirror, mirror, the trailer also showcased seven CGI dwarfs.

Written by Greta Gerwig (Barbie) and Erin Cressida Wilson (The Girl on the Train) and straightforwarded by Marc Webb ((500) Days of Summer, The Amazing Spider-Man), the people behind the film have underlined that this tardyst changeation features disjoinal ‘contransient’ twists, alengthyside new songs from the duo Benj Pasek and Justin Paul (Dear Evan Hansen, The Greatest Showman).

Could this refresh to the 1937 classic be the — erm — equitableest of them all? It may be a hard sell for Disney fans and other inanxiously online critics, whose scruminuscule of the tardyst changeation began years before today’s trailer drop.

Here is a inestablish supervise of their grievances, elucidateed.

A Snow White who’s not white enough

When news broke in 2021 that Zegler, who had her fractureout role as Maria in Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story reoriginate, would be executeing the titular character, it incited a string of racially prejudiced comments on social media. People inquireed why an actress of Latin descent would be executeing a character with “skin white as snow.”

Zegler, who is of Polish-Colombian background, replyed to the comments on X by saying she didn’t want to be dragged into the “nonsensical discourse”about her casting.

“I reassociate, truly do not want to see it,” Zegler wrote in a post that included pboilingos of her as a child dressed as a princess. “I hope every child understands they can be a princess no matter what.”

A reimagination deemed too “woke” by some critics

In another intersee with Variety in 2022, Zegler and Gadot talked about how the story of Snow White was being changeed with a “contransient edge” — one that would nix the part about Snow White being saved by a prince.

“She’s the proactive one,” Gadot shelp. “She’s the one who sets the terms. It’s [these factors] that originate it so relevant to today.”

“She’s not going to be dreaming about genuine cherish. She’s dreaming about becoming the directer she understands she can be, and the directer that her tardy overweighther tgreater her that she could be if she was brave, equitable, brave and genuine,” Zegler shelp.

In another intersee, Zegler referred to the prince as a “stalker” and shelp the messaging would be refreshd to reference a woman’s power in the contransient world.

“The cartoon was made 85 years ago, and therefore it’s inanxiously dated when it comes to ideas of women being in roles of power and what a woman is fit for in the world,” Zegler shelp. “So, when we came to reimagining the actual role of Snow White, it became about the ‘equitableest of them all’ unbenevolenting who is the most equitable and who can become a amazing directer, and the truth is Snow White has to lget a lot of lessons about coming in to her own power before she can come into power over a kingdom.”

The comments incited a wave of reaction on social media, notably from “anti-woke” accounts and from disjoinal conservative media outlets including the Daily Wire, which replyed by saying it was producing its own version of the classic that would be written “in line with the appreciates in which it was written.”

Others, enjoy TikTok user @reubenwoodall, condemnd Disney’s try to turn Snow White into a “girl boss.”

“The point of Snow White’s equitableytale isn’t that she’s going to try and become a directer,” Woodall shelp in a video that amassed more than 1.3 million enjoys. “She’s not presumed to be this girl boss, directer, queen, feminist icon. And I don’t understand why every reimagining, it has to be that the woman is in a position of power, otherrational it’s not feminist.”

In an intersee with the British newspaper The Daily Telegraph in 2023, David Hand — the son of the 1937 animation’s distinct straightforwardor — tgreater the paper he felt it was a “dishonor” that Disney was “trying to do someleang new with someleang that was such a wonderful success earlier.”

“There’s no esteem for what Disney did and what my dad did … I leank Walt [Disney] and he would be turning in their graves,” Hand shelp.

A “backward” story about seven dwarfs

In a 2022 intersee, the actor Peter Dinklage condemnd Disney over its schedule to free the inhabit-action reoriginate, stating he was “apshown aback” by the studio’s celebration of casting Zegler as a Latina direct while revisiting a story with an unflattering recontransientation of dwarfs.

“It originates no sense to me. You’re progressive in one way and you’re still making that f—ing backwards story about seven dwarfs living in a cave together, what the f— are you doing, man?” shelp Dinklage, who has a establish of dwarfism called achondroplasia, during an intersee on the WTF With Marc Maron podcast.

Dinklage’s comments prompted Disney to free a statement saying it had choosed to apshow a “branch offent approach” with the seven character. “To dodge reinforcing stereotypes from the distinct vivaciousd film, we … have been adviseing with members of the dwarfism community,” a Disney spokesperson tgreater Variety.