Summary
- Disney’s Snow White live-action remake stars Rachel Zegler as Snow White and Gal Gadot as the Evil Queen.
- As part of D23, Disney has unveiled the first trailer for the movie, revealing Zegler’s titular heroine.
- With Zegler’s recent success, the movie could mark another positive turnaround for Disney’s live-action remake trend.
Disney reveals the first trailer for its live-action Snow White. Set to release in the spring of 2025, the latest addition to the House of Mouse’s growing list of live-action remakes will star Rachel Zegler as the titular princess, and Gal Gadot as the Evil Queen. Snow White hails from The Amazing Spider-Man‘s Marc Webb, with Barbie‘s Greta Gerwig co-writing the script with The Girl on the Train‘s Erin Cressida Wilson.
As part of its special D23 presentation, Disney revealed the first trailer for Snow White. Check it out below:
The trailer reveals a new look at Zegler’s transformation into the iconic Disney heroine, including a snippet of her performing “Whistle While You Work”. The footage also unveils Gadot’s Evil Queen, with the Wonder Woman actor fully embodying the malevolent side of the villain as she speaks into the Magic Mirror and transforms into the old woman disguise to give Snow White the poison apple.
Disney’s Snow White Remake Looks To Be The Most Promising Yet
In addition to new looks at Zegler’s titular character and Gadot’s Evil Queen, the new Snow White trailer also offers a closer look at how the live-action remake will be adapting the dwarf characters as CGI creations. During the filming of the remake, this drew particular criticism from both the public and those living with dwarfism, with some even calling for the film to be reshot with appropriately cast actors. While it remains unclear if audiences will be open to the decision to make them CGI, the near 1–1 translations of them from the animated classic does mark a nice honoring of the classic characters.
Regardless of some of Snow White‘s behind-the-scenes controversies, the Snow White trailer does point to it being one of the more promising of Disney’s live-action remakes. Many prior efforts have found themselves criticized for either veering too closely or too far from their original titles, with 2017’s Beauty and the Beast and 2019’s The Lion King, in particular, being noted as too similar to warrant standing on their own. Snow White, on the other hand, looks to be making some interesting changes to its source movie.
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One of the most notable is the relationship between the titular princess and her love interest, who was a prince in the original movie, though the live-action Snow White seems to be taking the character in a different direction. Though only glimpsed briefly in the new trailer, it does look as though Webb and co. aim to bring a more nuanced take to the character and his relationship with Snow White, which could go a long way to updating the classic story for a modern audience in a meaningful fashion.
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Disney’s Snow White
Snow White is a live-action adaptation of the 1937 classic Snow White and the Seven Dwarves. Directed by Marc Webb, this newest iteration of the iconic character stars Rachel Zegler as Snow White alongside Gal Gadot as the Evil Queen. Originally slated to release in 2024, Snow White was delayed a year to 2025 partly due to the 2023 Writers Guild of America and SAG-AFTRA strikes.
