We Need to Talk About Disney's 'Snow White' (Again)

This movie isn't even out yet and it's already irritating

The D23 Expo (I’m not typing out the new name they gave it) took place this weekend in Anaheim and it was chockablock with information on upcoming movies, rides and TV shows. Friday saw the company put out a host of information on new films coming out over the next several years, and gave audiences a new look at the upcoming live-action adaptation of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

While Disney debuted a high-class teaser for the movie right away, illicit footage of what was presented in the room was uploaded to TikTok and that, combined with the trailer, had people feeling a certain way about the upcoming reimagining of Snow White (Rachel Zegler) and the seven independently wealthy men she decides to live with.

Disney has known of the issues inherent in their 1937 film and the gumption they had in even wanting to remake it, and expecting people to ignore the problems, seemed to imply the company’s infallibility. But what’s funny is how people online are responding to the clips released, and are going down some weird paths. There was a lot of discussion about how the heavy CGI creation of the dwarves, which Disney had initially called “magical creatures” but who knows if they kept that, crafted a weird uncanny valley effect. Others highlighted how easy it would have been for Disney to cast actual actors with dwarfism (like the 2012 non-Disney adaptation of Snow White, Mirror Mirror did, to strong effect). But many also kept bringing up one name when talking about the movie: Peter Dinklage.