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It’s been a busy weekend for Snow White, who knows a thing or two about
On Friday, Disney released the first look at West Side Story and The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes star Rachel Zegler in the iconic Disney princess role.
That first-look photo, however, also revealed the bizarrely-CGI-rendered seven dwarves, who will surely be tweaked before the film’s release.
First look at Rachel Zegler in ‘Snow White’ 🍎 pic.twitter.com/sft7nQjCLw
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Speaking of the film’s release, the Mouse House also announced that it was being bumped back an entire year from March 2024 to March 2025.
Whether that’s due to the need for CGI improvements, the ongoing actors’ strike, or to get the grown men online who got themselves strangely worked up about Zegler’s opinion of the original Snow White off their backs, however, they did not say.
In addition to the updates about the upcoming movie adaptation, the character was brought to life in live-action across the country over the weekend thanks to Halloween, including by singer and actress Demi Lovato, who shared some photos of herself as the character on Instagram.
Demi Lovato dressed up as Snow White for Halloween. 🍎 pic.twitter.com/1hLa452rAI
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Snow White is directed by Marc Webb, the filmmaker behind movies such as 500 Days of Summer, The Amazing Spider-Man and its sequel, and Gifted.
In addition to Zegler as the titular Snow White, the film also stars former Wonder Woman actress Gal Gadot as the Evil Queen. Andrew Burnap, Ansu Kabia, Colin Michael, Martin Klebba also star in the film, which was written by acclaimed Barbie writer/director Greta Gerwig.
Following its delay, Disney’s Snow White is now scheduled to hit movie theaters in the United States on Friday, March 21, 2025.
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As for Zegler’s comments that pushed one right-wing outlet to produce their own low-budget adaptation of the film, the 22-year-old actress from New Jersey had previously said that the original 1937 film is “extremely dated when it comes to the ideas of women being in roles of power.”
“The original cartoon came out in 1937, and very evidently so. There’s a big focus on her love story with a guy who literally stalks her. Weird. So we didn’t do that this time,” Zegler previously said in an interview with Extra.
Zegler will next be seen starring in the Hunger Games prequel The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, which will be hitting movie theaters in the United States on Friday, November 17.