Bad apple? How Disney’s Snow White remake turned sour

Whistle while you trollll.

How can it be trolling when it's a story from The Guardian about two feuding movie stars on the set of an upcoming movie from a major Hollywood studio, and this is a gossip forum?

Eagerly awaiting to hear your answer.

It looks so bad.

Ziegler should do press in Gaza. I’m sure they’d love her.

This looks ugly and weird. Op. Who asked for this?

I don't know if this take is true but I do know Peter Dinklage caused seven dwarf actors to lose their jobs in the remake.

According to this video he's a little bitch with a huge ego. Some of the info is wrong as the host is suggesting they would be making the dwarfs different ethnicities, sizes and genders. Going by the first teaser trailer, that doesn't appear to be the case. This is pretty much a hit piece but a lot of what this host says did come to fruition ie losing roles and being iced out of Disney.

Lastly, Rachel Zegler ruins every movie (and franchise) she is in.

Rachel Zegler is so boring and uncharismatic. I don't think she'll last long.

It might be best if Disney stopped with the live-action remakes.

Zegler is right about Gaza (not exactly hard to see why mass murder for real estate is bad).

Her biggest misstep was shitting all over the movie she was involved in remaking. Not a recipe for success with the fans of the film.

And yes, Dinklage took umbrage (or Umbrage took Dinklage) at the idea of little people being used for comic effect, so, keen not to offend ANYONE, the Mouse cast a pack of weirdos as the “dwarves” who looked like rejects from the Manson Family. That rogues gallery of douchebags and losers was met with such scorn, the mouse went back and redid the dwarves again as cgi.

I suspect this movie is going to be the ‘20s equivalent of “Bonfire of the Vanities.”

Dinklage is a bitter little bitch.

Zegler is an asshole, R9. For her to publicly include "Free Palestine" in tweets dedicated to the promotion of the film is a dick move. Especially since her co-star is from Israel. Stick to the script or fuck off. So tied of this little bitch.

Zegler is one of those "WTF" celebrities who were seemingly plucked from nowhere, given a huge PR push and cast in big movies even though they are completely average and have no discernable talent. You really wonder what goes on in Hollywood sometimes.

[quote]Zegler is right about Gaza (not exactly hard to see why mass murder for real estate is bad).

Jesus Christ. I am so fucking sick of the morons who spout off this bullshit. You know not a damn thing about that region, let alone Gaza. You and Ziegler are on the same level in terms of knowledge and sincerity.

R2 you right I just wanted to say something funny.

R11 That mouth must work wonders.

Zegler and Disney have produced yet another Stinker.

I hope so, r16

They should send this straight to Disney+.

Zegler went on and on about how sexist Snow White is and how evil men are. She needs her ass kicked.

Snow White doesn’t get kissed by the Prince because it’s rapey. I shit you not. The dwarves were magical creatures because it wasn’t politically correct until they woke up and saw that it didn’t work.

hoo dee farest of dem alls

Ziegler: “If you liked the original film, then this film isn’t for you.”

Neither Zegler nor Gal Gadot are strong actresses.

Anne Hathaway would’ve made a perfect evil queen.

So nobody asked for this.

Nobody asked for that money-grab Lion king remake either.

Disney is slowly fucking up EVERYTHING that made it once great and magical.

In their rush to monetize everything even further, they’re just throwing shit against the wall to see what sticks. More Toy Story, more Frozen, more Moana, it’s all just so tired and boring.

They’ve completely ruined Star Wars as well. They are so fucking greedy that they’re going to put Mandalorian in theaters instead of keeping it on tv.

I have no intention of seeing this weird shit-show they intend to foist upon the public. The actress is ugly and dark, Snow White is white as snow and beautiful. Don’t know where she comes from but she is wrong for the role. Who the hell is going to buy gal as an ugly, desperate, murderous witch?? Please.

I hope the movie fails miserably and heads at Disney roll.

Snow White being a Hamasshole is so 2024. We truly live in the craziest of times.

Isn’t Snow White supposed to be better looking than the Queen?

Disney’s woke crap is going to have them declaring bankruptcy before you know it.

What a fucking shit show.

When you factor in how the original Snow White was the reason animated films became serious business, and made Walt Disney a serious film producer, this remake is taking a sledgehammer to 90 years worth of animated film history (cinema history in general) without looking back. Everyone involved in this production should be ashamed of themselves.

There are Israelis who believe in a two-state solution, r11. It's not a "dick move" to display compassion towards the Palestinians just because Gal Gadot is from Israel.

R13, sputtering with rage at the thought of someone criticizing the human rights disasters in the West Bank and Gaza but offering no rebuttal at all. I bet you lost your shit when Jimmy Carter compared the situation to apartheid 15 years ago. Sorry, the violent theft of Palestinian land in the West Bank is justified with religion. You sound like a nasty bully.

R29 For the longest time, Disney executives actually did treat Snow White with more reverence than most of their catalogue. No DTV sequel was ever produced because they knew how controversial it would be. Snow White also didn’t appear in their Princess marketing as heavily as some of the others. I guess all that’s out the window now.

R30's post shows the absurdity of it all: Discussing Palestine in a Snow White thread.

The demo interested in seeing this film will now avoid it like the plague. Just as I don't care to debate you on this topic, neither does the movie-going public want to hear Zegler's incessant political opinions while promoting a Disney film. Buy a clue, Disney's about to.

I thought the live action Beauty and the Beast was charming even with dead eyed Emma Watson.

[Quote] Zegler is an asshole, [R9]. For her to publicly include "Free Palestine" in tweets dedicated to the promotion of the film is a dick move.

If you’re ok with mass murder, you’ve misidentified the asshole here — it’s you.

R30, it shows what a cult American Zionism is.

If this were any people other than Israelis exterminating Palestinians they’d be shouting at the top of their lungs demanding boycotts, government action, etc. But they’ve been brainwashed from childhood into thinking anything and everything Israel does is good, any any criticism of Israel is antisemitism.

And they’re going to win. They will massacre the Palestinians, steal all their land, and the Palestinians will be blamed for the whole thing. It’s happening right in front of us.

[quote]Zegler is one of those "WTF" celebrities who were seemingly plucked from nowhere, given a huge PR push and cast in big movies

I blame Steven Spielberg for foisting Zegler, Debose and Faist on the world. They're all unattractive and marginally talented. None of them are real movie stars. Spielberg's version of West Side Story was boring and the biggest flop of the year, yet those 3 actors from the film are somehow being cast in everything.

I grew up with both Disney and Star Wars and loved them both. Even the dumb live-action comedies of the '70s, because they were so nostalgic.

And modern Disney has completely ruined both for me.

The dwarves after the movie got Dinklaged. Are you fucking kidding us, Disney? Looks like a Benetton ad full of people who bring guitars to a house party and take requests.

^^^ Lite-fm energy

I liked Zegler in the Hunger Games movie,

[quote] Rachel Zegler was born in Hackensack, New Jersey, on May 3, 2001, to Gina and Craig Zegler. She was named after the fictional character Rachel Green from the TV series Friends.

How trashy.

R41: John Wayne Gacy

R34 She’s supposed to be promoting a children’s film as an employee, not courting political controversy to quench her insatiable thirst for online attention.

Dime to a dollar, if you asked her why this conflict is even happening, she’d have no idea. Like millions of other ignorant Tik-Tok idiots. They just need to feel “special.”

She just cares about courting her online, ultra-liberal cred. And that very thin appeal is waning fast.

She’s a joke and her entitled behavior and big mouth will be blamed if this thing flops, which is looking very likely.

Couldn’t happen to a bigger cunt.

Why was a nasty goblin who hates the original movie cast as the sweetest and most innocent of Disney princesses? I think a saboteur at Disney is trying to ruin their legacy, similar to how Elon has ruined Twitter.

Pete Dicklidge didn't seem to mind when he was cornering the market on all the midget roles or when he was deliberately cast to make a story more offbeat. Now that he's old, drunk and bitter and there's less and less opportunities he wants to be an aggrieved nasty cunt bully.

R38 They look like they’re on the way to the Polanski/Tate house.

R38 The dinner theatre cast of Godspell has been replaced by freaky-looking CGI dwarves, so the little people actors who could have humanized these roles are now portrayed as monsters from the Uncanny Valley. I hope Dinklage is happy now!

It seems that midgets tend to be drunks.

[quote]Its lead star, Rachel Zegler, said she “hated” the original 1937 film and branded its story “weird” with a stalker-like Prince Charming character who steals a kiss from a girl in a coma who could not give consent.

This reads like a parody of political correctness. It's a fucking fairy tale!

That tedious attention whore is going to cost the Mouse a lot of money.

Ziegler is so marginal.

At least Jenna Ortega has proven that she's almost worth how insufferable she is.

Apparently, if you read some of the gossip, Marvel and Feige have decided that "get work, go broke" is true and cleaned house. There are rumors that the rest of Disney, except Kathleen Kennedy and Star Wars, are also coming to realize that an agenda that isn't backed up by a decent production don't make money.

Who would blame them if true, r48. And spending less money in drink as well.

What a mess of a story from everyone involved. Starting with the idea of remaking Snow White at this day and age.

David Selznick said: Don't fuck with a classic.

A Germanic story with no Germanic people involved. Isn't this cultural appropriation?

On the bright side, Tranny Poppins is now trapped in development hell.

Disney was going to do a genderqueer Mary Poppins?

Tell me you are kidding, R54 😧

You can't make a movie about a manny you groomer! It's against the law in the United States of America!!!!!

R56, yes. But it says much about the modern age that you'd wonder.

I hope this marks the end of their “live action” remakes for now. In addition to the PR disasters this film has seen, I think most people are just worn out by the onslaught of them over the past decade.

I think most people are just worn out by the bizarre and inappropriate casting and fucking with the beloved original stories.

It just beggars belief that a beautiful woman like Gal Gadot would be jealous of a troll like Rachel Zegler.

A new teaser has dropped!

R30 I’ll one up the random topics in a show thread:

Yeah Jack, this is Faye Dunaway... Look I've raced some of the stuff from the O'Neill interview but I'm not really interested in Terry O'Neill - he's a BIG, BIG LIAR and I'm really not interested in in him and you know all and dilly-dallying and carrying over Mommie Dearest...I don't even want to discuss it in my interview or on this Lloyd-Webber thing: those are NEGATIVES and I notice that you have nothing in about Marlon Brando, you have nothing in about Johnny Depp which I did two films with, I don't expect you to get get him for an interview, but you could put some footage in of the of the Kusturica movie which I was BRILLIANT in and it was not well sold in this country you can talk about the Marlon Brando film that I was wonderful in. All the POSITIVE things along that that period, the Marlon Brando film was going on at the same time that the Lloyd-Webber STUPIDITY was going on and you all have to put in the Lloyd-Webber STUPIDITY, you can't put in that I worked with the wonderful Marlon Brando and talk to the director of that movie FOR CHRISTSAKE! And I'm not gonna approve it and I'm really upset now because that uh for two nights now tried to thread through that STUPID interview with a with a man that I will not even waste my time discussing. And and you know who, suffice it to say, stopped working when he married me and pretended to be my manager for a very long time so LET'S NOT EVEN GO THERE! It's very upsetting to me! And then to put my uh our child in JEOPARDY the way he has. So I'm not interested in these NEGATIVE things that you all are putting in there with me in! I don't want Llloys-Webber in, I'd like you to cut him out, and I'd like you to really trim down everything to do with that Mommie Dearest, I'm not gonna talk about it, maybe one thing I'm gonna say about it and THAT'S ALL. It's just like uh you know an obsession, why can't you be obsessed about POSITIVE THINGS?! About Marlon Brando? About the Kusturica movie that was THE HIT OF ALL THE EUROPE AND CANNES? About uh, the film I did with Brando and talk to that, YOU KNOW?!

Hard to tell if R35 is a right wing Nazi or a left wing Nazi.

Either way his absolute hatred of Israel is quite something.

Ya know, r63, I have managed to not read your stupid spiel on every thread I've come across it.

That will not change in the future.

That entire shithole region turns brother against brother, homo against homo. What a gift to humanity the Middle East is.

This film is fucking toxic. Look what it’s done to this thread.

r64 he's on the Germany thread talking about how wonderful the Muslims in Europe are.

[Quote] Either way his absolute hatred of Israel is quite something.

Do you absolutely hate Nazi germany, cultist?

Obsessed racist ziono-cultist at r68 is obsessed. Here I am, living rent free inside your head, Matt. Does it cause you major cognitive dissonance when someone points out the cult you were raised to worship is actually bloodthirsty fascism?

And you support and defend genocide?

[Quote] [R34] She’s supposed to be promoting a children’s film as an employee, not courting political controversy to quench her insatiable thirst for online attention.

funny you don’t have the same opinion of Gadot when she cheers on and supports the ziono genocide state. Why might that be? 🤔🤔🤔

R71, has Gadot been linking her support of Israel to her promotion of Snow White?

Get help r70. And speaking of obsessed, this Matt guy, who hasn't been on DL in at least a decade, seems to be a particular obsession with you.

r35/r70 is just butthurt because he got his ass handed to him on the Germany thread.

How are things in the third grade, Matt at r74?

I think my favorite live action "remake" from Disney is Pete's Dragon. It was a lot of fun and you can enjoy both the original and the new one as standalones. If there was ever a film to stick in the vault to never see the light of day, it is this new Snow White. Sounds like everyone involved needs to be blacklisted.

R65 That’s because you WISELY avoided my eyeline!

Ok, why is someone posting faye dunaway’s voicemail transcript on multiple threads?

It’s already bizarre enough a Snow white thread has a discussion about Palestine.

This remake didn't need to be made, but if you do it, you do it right.

Snow White should be white. That's part of her character.

Gal Gadot as the evil queen was actually a good choice. But Snow White better be dead ass beautiful if you go with Gal as your "older" evil queen.

Seven little people actors for the dwarves. Not CGI. Not all colors of the rainbow if they're not available and up to the level needed. It makes more logical sense to give more little people jobs than to worry about what some idiot like Peter Dinklage says.

The costumes should look luscious and not like they came off the rack of Spirit Halloween.

And when you do use CGI, use it correctly. One of the trailers had the lightning instead the cottage as if the land has three suns for Christ's sake. This is amateur hour stuff.

lightning=lighting

She looks like a goblin with that five head of hers.

I first found out about her when I stumbled on a YT video of her self immolating during the promotional interviews for the film. The infamous "wEiRd, WeIrD" comment she made along with everything else she said- I was gobsmacked. Without knowing the first thing about her, this film or anything else, she came across as incredibly arrogant and condescending. Just a gross asshole all around. I don't care what her views are on the middle east or anything else, she's insufferable and isn't worthy of the opportunity that's been availed to her. Wtf was Spielberg thinking? She is utterly unremarkable.

R74 I finally blocked that cunt at r35 etc. What an insufferable twat. Too stupid to understand how hated he is by the very people he defends.

Remember, the Queen in Snow White is “fairest of them all” until Snow shows up. You don’t want an ugly queen here.

Looks like Matt blocked me lol. Cowardly Zion just like Israeli soldiers are cowards who cower behind their tanks and bombs, killing civilians because they want to steal their homes.

Too bad for you, Matt!

R84 do you think of yourself as left wing or right wing?

I think after the backlash from the leaked photos and Rachel’s controversial remarks, they pushed the movie back and most likely reshot the whole thing.

The irony is what Disney and Rachel missed about Snow White was the misogyny doesn’t come from the prince rescuing the Princess, the misogyny is the Queen attempting to murder the Princess out of jealousy.

r82 he's an angry, bitter asshole.

Fun fact: Joan Crawford was the inspiration for the look of the Evil Queen in the original Snow White.

R88 talk about dark irony. a few other actresses also served as inspiration; Greta Garbo was one of them, as was Helen Gahagan in She.

R88 “You are not leaving this cottage until you have finished. That. Apple!”

R90 She should’ve known Snow White knew where to find the boys AND the booze.

“Tear down that BITCH of a castle wall and put a magic mirror where it OUGHT to be!”

Mirror: “You are the fairest of them all.”

Queen: “When I taught you to call me that, I wanted you to MEAN it!”

Maaaary, Poppers.

The story of a pass around bottom who reclaims his self-worth while teaching kids how to be strong and independent.

R88 You drove the late king to his grave and now you’re trying to stab ME IN THE BACK?! FORGET IT!

They need to stop casting these lil Gen Z cunts in stuff. Who the fuck makes a half a billion dollar flick only to continually bash it during press.

The funniest part of this story is that they refer to the giant foreheaded Ziegler as an "A-list star."

R12, Zegler was wonderful in West Side Story (except the ending).

The joke is this ugly runt is supposed to be prettier than Gal Gadot. There are tons of memes making fun of it.

[quote]R31 For the longest time, Disney executives actually did treat Snow White with more reverence… I guess all that’s out the window now.

Now she is literally being prostituted.

[italic]shaking my damn head…

CAROL ANN! I HAVE ASKED YOU TO KEEP THE PRINCESS QUIET TODAY!

Did this come out yet?

Disney has made some really bad choices for the past five years, but this just might prove to be the worst. There hasn’t been a movie in a long time that has had this much negative buzz so many months before the release.

[quote]Meanwhile, Zegler, who starred in the musical film adaptation of West Side Story.....

Although the Guardian article contains some good information, it's very poorly written, and the above is only one example. "The musical film adaptation of West Side story?" Really???

Did they sing “always the hurricane blowing, always the population growing “ in the latest version of WSS?

This will belong on that thread where we cheer for the villain. Go Queen Gal! Poison her!

No, R105, those lines were cut, and at least one other line was rewritten: "And the bullets flying" was rewritten as "And the people trying." Sondheim was still alive when the soundtrack was recorded and the movie was being filmed, so presumably he wrote or at least approved the changes.

Makes sense R107.

[quote]sputtering with rage at the thought of someone criticizing the human rights disasters in the West Bank and Gaza but offering no rebuttal at all. I bet you lost your shit when Jimmy Carter compared the situation to apartheid 15 years ago. Sorry, the violent theft of Palestinian land in the West Bank is justified with religion. You sound like a nasty bully.

I’m so crushed you would think that of me, terrorist simp. Here’s my rebuttal: what is happening in Gaza is called war. Hamas continues to hold over a 100 hostages kidnapped on October 7th including a baby in diapers. If you have a problem with the outcome of war take it up with your buddies in Gaza. On October 7th they invaded Israel slaughtered over 1200 citizens, raped and tortured women, paraded their dead bodies through the streets while laughing and spitting on their corpses, burned human beings alive and held babies up like trophies, laughing, after killing their parents in front of them. This was recorded by Hamas and posted online. Israel has every right to defend itself and should not stop until all hostages are rescued at the least. Fuck you and your twisted defense of terrorists.

Oh by the way. Apartheid my ass. Muslims serve in government and the judicial branch and they are free to worship at the many mosques throughout Israel. There is a Muslim population of over 2 million thriving in that country who choose to stay there for a reason.

There are just some obsessive Jew haters in the world.

The thing with Jew hate as opposed to anti black racism is those obsessed with Jews frame it as an intellectual argument. The anti black racists it’s instinctive emotion.

[quote] Nobody asked for that money-grab Lion king remake either.

Maybe nobody asked for it, but it made 1.657 billion.

Well.... the cinematography looks good, the CGI dwarves look shite. Gadot looks amazing but is no Theron and Zegler, ugh

I liked the live-action remake of The Jungle Book(1994), which starred Lena Headley and the delicious Jason Lee.

I do like that the evil queen is ex-IDF.

R88

Snow White: My Babies! Someone stole my babies! Queen: That’s good, darling. They were such thoughtless, selfish, spoiled, princesses. Now they won’t wake you up when you need your rest.

If it ain't broke dont fix it.

R113 What was the video you linked to? It’s since been taken down. Is there a new trailer?

YOU…YOU DELIBERATELY EMBARRASSED ME IN FRONT OF A TOWN CRIER!

[Quote] There are just some obsessive Jew haters in the world.

It’s so ironic that “antisemitism” has become basically meaningless at this point, and it’s Jews that made it so, by claiming that anyone who protests the monstrous evil of Zionism is an antisemite.

Yup r120 well said.

Snow White werent no jew...

Don’t…you…EVER be fairer than me, MISSY!

[quoteThe thing with Jew hate as opposed to anti black racism is those obsessed with Jews frame it as an intellectual argument. The anti black racists it’s instinctive emotion.

R111 never heard of/read Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Richard Herrnstein, or Charles Murray.

[quote] It’s so ironic that “antisemitism” has become basically meaningless at this point, and it’s Jews that made it so, by claiming that anyone who protests the monstrous evil of Zionism is an antisemite.

Zionism is not monstrously evil. That is ridiculously absurd. Believing Jews are entitled to self-determination and to live on their ancestral homeland is not evil. It is not akin to Nazism and Jewish people are not arguing for the annihilation of the Arabs of Palestine. However, believing the Jews of Israel should be wiped off the map is not an extremist viewpoint coming from the leadership in Gaza. I am sure there are Zionists who hold more extreme viewpoints, but that is why they are called extremists. They are not remotely the majority.

The people who find anti-semitism meaningless are usually anti-Semites. It’s fine if you don’t give a shit about Jewish people and have no desire to confront opinions you may have that are misinformed or biased; that is your right. I would say too, in general, people care about the communities they feel a connection to and are mostly indifferent otherwise. But it’s illogical to think that Jewish people should shrug and not speak up for their community. Sorry it annoys you, but tough shit.

[quote] Her biggest misstep was shitting all over the movie she was involved in remaking.

I will never understand actors that do this. Don't they realize they need the paycheck and that this behavior comes across as very hypocritical and spoiled?

I’m just laughing at how this thread has been derailed by mommie dearest quotes and the Gaza Saga,

I guess you shouldn’t start a war you can’t win.

R124, racists of all types (and misogynists, for that matter) have always have elaborate pseudoscientific justifications for their beliefs.

Gaza Saga 💀💀💀

Comic interlude

Huntsman, after being ordered to kill Snow White: I think you’re overreacting, your majesty!

Evil Queen: AND I THINK YOU’RE UNDERREACTING, MY DEAR HUNTSMAN!

It's Zegler's Polish half that's turned her into a joke.

She identifies as Latina never Polish. I wonder why?

R1 The troll troll.

Evil Queen the King when renovating their castle: “You GENIUS of the royal kingdom. Get the goddamned TAXPAYERS to pay the BILL!

Better Title: Snow White is One of the Seven Dwarfs.

Gadot has zero charisma or acting chops. Looks can take you far

And Zegler outdoes her in flat as a pancake line readings.

In the original WSS Natalie Wood tore your heart out at the end. In the remake Zegler works hard to come up with slight annoyance.

Hopefully, Rachel Zegler's career will go the way of another Hollywood commie cunt, Frances Farmer.

Someone wrote the following about Catherine Russell of PERFECT CRIME: "I’m sure she’s a lovely person. But she’s wasting her entire life in a dreadful play." To which my response is, "Well, you're half right."

Someone else wrote about her: "I've never heard anyone say anything negative about Cathy Russell. She is one of the nicest, most generous people I know." But obviously, this poster is a paid shill or perhaps Ms. Russell herself, because as a friend of mine aptly put it, "Her reputation precedes her." And it's NOT a good one.

Evil Queen: She negotiates EVERYTHING like a goddamn disgruntled peasant.

Bingo, r6.

I meant r8, but okay.