A new trailer for the live action version of “Snow White” has just been revealed. We see the dwarves there for the first time.
On March 19, 2025, Snow White and her seven dwarfs will return to the cinema 88 years after the animated version by David Hand. The first animated feature film from the Walt Disney studio, the cult film returns in a live-action version.
Actress Rachel Zegler – seen in the West Side Story remake and the Hunger Games prequel – plays the heroine while Gal Gadot lends her features to the Evil Queen. The feature film revisits the 1937 animation classic. The story of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs has in fact been brought up to date in order to bring modernity to it. Rachel Zegler also declared to Variety aat the time of the project announcement: “She's not going to dream of true love. She dreams of becoming the leader she knows she can be and the leader her late father told her she could be if she were fearless, fair, courageous and true.”
The actress also told EW that the original film was “extremely dated when it comes to the role of women”adding against Extra TV : “the original cartoon came out in 1937, and obviously the focus is on her romance with a guy who is literally stalking her. Weird. So we didn’t do it this time.” The live version of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs should therefore differ significantly from the original film, as the trailer already shows.
The actor Andrew Burnap who plays Jonathan, Prince Charming in this film – should therefore not come to save Snow White and even less kiss her while she is asleep.
Controversy surrounding the 7 dwarves
The new trailer revealed today allows us to discover the physique of the dwarves in Marc Webb's film for the first time. After criticism from Peter Dinklage regarding the “backward side of the story of the 7 dwarves”, Disney announced that they would be replaced by fantastical creatures, thus attracting the wrath of actors suffering from dwarfism.
Today we discover that the studio has finally decided to return to the origins of the Brothers Grimm tale but by creating Prof, Grumpy, Simplet, Sneezy, Shy, Sleepy and Joyful in computer-generated images. A choice that is not unanimous if we are to believe the reactions of Internet users after the launch of this trailer.
“These things will fuel my nightmares.”
“But why the hell did Disney make CGI dwarves like that?! They look absolutely horrible. How is that a better representation than just hiring actors with dwarfism?”
This new video is also an opportunity to discover the title “Slay“, a new song by the duo Benj Pasek and Justin Paul (The Greatest Showman, Aladdin). The live version of Snow White will be released in theaters on March 19.
