As a web site that recurrently reaches out to film studios to touch upon issues, we’ve to say it is a little bit of a shocker. But a welcome one. A probably controversial downside was identified to Disney and the world’s largest movie studio has responded. Which, belief us, doesn’t occur all that always.

Here’s the way it began. On Monday, comic Marc Maron launched the newest episode of his widespread WTF Podcast with award-winning actor Peter Dinklage. Like most of Maron’s talks, matters ran the gamut, ultimately mentioning that West Side Story breakout Rachel Zegler was forged as Snow White in an upcoming Disney live-action adaptation from Amazing Spider-Man director Marc Webb. Dinklage had ideas.

“Literally no offense to anyone, but I was a little taken aback when they were very proud to cast a Latina actress as Snow White—but you’re still telling the story of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,” Dinklage mentioned. “Take a step back and look at what you’re doing there. It makes no sense to me. You’re progressive in one way, but then you’re still making that fucking backward story about seven dwarfs living in a cave together. What the fuck are you doing, man? Have I done nothing to advance the cause from my soapbox? I guess I’m not loud enough.”

That’s Dinklage simply speaking as a fan. He has nothing to do with the movie. But his displeasure with Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs started to unfold, and when the Hollywood Reporter requested for a remark, Disney truly responded. “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. We look forward to sharing more as the film heads into production after a lengthy development period,” a spokesperson informed the commerce, which additionally reported that “the studio has been reimagining the dwarf characters since the earliest stages.” As for what the reimagining entails, the Wrap reviews the characters have been described on casting sheets as “magical creatures.”

Snow White first started growth round three years in the past and solely in current months has the movie started casting roles reminiscent of Zegler as Snow White and Gal Gadot because the Evil Queen. So it’s reassuring to suppose the studio truly flagged any probably offensive issues from the unique film earlier within the growth course of. And whereas a skeptic is perhaps fast to level out Disney may very well be mendacity a few new strategy to the dwarf characters, the actual fact the studio was so quick to answer Dinklage, and did so in any respect, leads us to imagine it. If Disney was blindsided by these feedback (prefer it generally is by, say, Marvel leaks or Star Wars actors saying terrible issues) these replies often take a lot, for much longer. If in any respect.

The live-action Snow White doesn’t but have a launch date however 2023 looks as if guess.

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