Live-Action ‘Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs’

[MoonRakerSCM]

The trophy should have sonics teeth on it. As a reminder of what could have been...

 

[Tha Realest]

Hear me out: maybe those “magical creatures” for the earlier leaked photo are still in the film, but take on the appearance of dwarfs in certain circumstances? It still doesn’t account for how a multiethnic, gender (and height) diverse group looks like a homogenous group of garden gnomes.

This seems like the likeliest explanation I’ve seen so far:

 

[Phroobar]

Hear me out: maybe those “magical creatures” for the earlier leaked photo are still in the film, but take on the appearance of dwarfs in certain circumstances? It still doesn’t account for how a multiethnic, gender (and height) diverse group looks like a homogenous group of garden gnomes.

This seems like the likeliest explanation I’ve seen so far:

The body doubles looked better!!!

 

[doctornick]

Better quality:

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So, as I've mentioned before, I've generally not seen these live action remakes in theaters but I will say that just the release of this image makes me like a hundred times more interested in seeing this film than what we saw before. So, shifting from "I guess maybe I'll check it out on Disney+ sometime to see if it's a trainwreck" to "maybe it might be okay and I'll pencil it in to watch as soon as it comes out".

Really curious if the storyline we have heard about has also changed to be closer to the original Disney film.

 

[MoonRakerSCM]

Honestly it looks like they typed 'Snow white and the seven dwarves, live action' into an AI generator and released the resulting photo. Now they'll spend the next year doing quick and dirty CG work to match it and fill in the scenes.

 

[TP2000]

The live-action Snow White has reportedly been delayed to March 21, 2025.

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www.hollywoodreporter.com

This is hysterical! I can only imagine the panic and regrouping that must have taken place over the past four months to cause this rethink of the movie.

Now if they could just create an AI version of Rachel Zegler to send out on PR interviews without going off script, they'll be all set. See you in '25!

 

[Chi84]

I asked in another thread but maybe this one is more appropriate. Did Disney make an official statement that they were not going to have dwarfs? I thought I read something but I can’t find anything from Disney.

 

[Tha Realest]

I asked in another thread but maybe this one is more appropriate. Did Disney make an official statement that they were not going to have dwarfs? I thought I read something but I can’t find anything from Disney.

Disney responds to Peter Dinklage's criticism of Snow White remake

Actor Peter Dinklage called a live-action remake of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs "backwards".

www.bbc.com

 

[TP2000]

I asked in another thread but maybe this one is more appropriate. Did Disney make an official statement that they were not going to have dwarfs? I thought I read something but I can’t find anything from Disney.

Disney responds to Peter Dinklage's criticism of Snow White remake

Actor Peter Dinklage called a live-action remake of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs "backwards".

www.bbc.com

And also this from The Hollywood Reporter...

Disney Responds to Peter Dinklage’s ‘Snow White’ Live-Action Criticisms (Exclusive)

"To avoid reinforcing stereotypes from the original animated film, we are taking a different approach with these seven characters and have been consulting with members of the dwarfism community," says Disney.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

 

[Vegas Disney Fan]

I have mixed feelings on them going with a CGI-gnome like design for the dwarves. On one hand, it robs dwarf actors of an acting opportunity. On the other hand, it makes it blatant that these are fantasy-like creatures not to be confused with humans with actual dwarfism, and that distinction might help prevent the film from perpetuating stereotypes about real-life dwarves.

Makes sense but it would have looked better to simply put makeup and prosthetics on real actors who are little people, and provided them work also.

The fact it’s CG feels like this is a last minute change to try to salvage a movie they knew was going to struggle at the box office.

 

[TP2000]

Hear me out: maybe those “magical creatures” for the earlier leaked photo are still in the film, but take on the appearance of dwarfs in certain circumstances? It still doesn’t account for how a multiethnic, gender (and height) diverse group looks like a homogenous group of garden gnomes.

This seems like the likeliest explanation I’ve seen so far:

At first glance I thought "Well, some of them aren't dwarves, they're taller than she is." But... nope.

Five of the Seven Dwarves are sitting or standing on top of a kitchen table, the same table that Snow is perched on. They're all dwarves and all much shorter than she is. Also, they are all of European descent now, all male, and all... dwarves.

Notice the table legs in the photo, to prove that these dwarves are standing on a table behind her.

 

[Chi84]

Disney responds to Peter Dinklage's criticism of Snow White remake

Actor Peter Dinklage called a live-action remake of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs "backwards".

www.bbc.com

The statement there said they were going to avoid reinforcing stereotypes, were taking a different approach with these seven characters and were consulting with members of the dwarfism community.

Did Disney follow up with any statement that the seven characters would not be dwarfs as opposed to not being the type of dwarfs portrayed in the animated version?

 

[Vegas Disney Fan]

The statement there said they were going to avoid reinforcing stereotypes, were taking a different approach with these seven characters and were consulting with members of the dwarfism community.

Did Disney follow up with any statement that the seven characters would not be dwarfs as opposed to not being the type of dwarfs portrayed in the animated version?

That’s the million dollar question right now, as far as I know they didn’t say anything like that specifically, but when the leaked photo of the costumes appeared I think we all “thought” we had the answer… only to be completely blindsided by todays photo.

It’s also interesting the previous photo was said to show stand ins in the costumes and the costumes in the new photo look nothing like them, which also leads me to believe a last minute change.

 

[KeithVH]

If the newer pic is actually valid, I would say the company needed a 15 saving throw on a D20 and rolled a 4 . . .

 

[Phroobar]

So why couldn't they look like this?

 

[doctornick]

That’s the million dollar question right now, as far as I know they didn’t say anything like that specifically, but when the leaked photo of the costumes appeared I think we all “thought” we had the answer… only to be completely blindsided by todays photo.

I thought it was some official company release that mentioned them being "magical creatures" - or did we just make that up on here? I ask because I felt like they were specifically trying to distance themselves from the idea of "dwarfs" and being just more generic fairy tale folk. But the new picture suggests they are going back to clear cut dwarfs as characters and potentially including the defining traits from the the classic film going along with the names.

 

[Tha Realest]

That’s the million dollar question right now, as far as I know they didn’t say anything like that specifically, but when the leaked photo of the costumes appeared I think we all “thought” we had the answer… only to be completely blindsided by todays photo.

The likeliest explanations are 1) the dwarfs have two appearances (both the baristas walking in the field, and the Garden Gnome version we saw today), or 2) a fundamental change has happened during the postproduction phase.

 

[Vegas Disney Fan]

I thought it was some official company release that mentioned them being "magical creatures" - or did we just make that up on here? I ask because I felt like they were specifically trying to distance themselves from the idea of "dwarfs" and being just more generic fairy tale folk. But the new picture suggests they are going back to clear cut dwarfs as characters and potentially including the defining traits from the the classic film going along with the names.

There were definitely articles written that referenced the change to magical creatures, I just don’t know if that phrase came from Disney or the authors of the articles.

 

[doctornick]

The likeliest explanations are 1) the dwarfs have two appearances (both the baristas walking in the field, and the Garden Gnome version we saw today), or 2) a fundamental change has happened during the postproduction phase.

The former seems pretty unlikely given that the CGI image today doesn't reflect the genders and race of the previous image's characters.

 

[Tha Realest]

There were definitely articles written that referenced the change to magical creatures, I just don’t know if that phrase came from Disney or the authors of the articles.

Disney Assures Peter Dinklage on 'Snow White' Reboot: 'We Are Taking a Different Approach' on Dwarf Characters

Disney has finally responded to Peter Dinklage, who expressed concern and outrage over the studio's forthcoming remake of Snow White.

www.thewrap.com