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Is the new Snow White a poisoned apple?

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March 28, 2025

Disney's latest remake may need more than amasgic kiss to survive its entanglements with politics, sexism and CGI dwarf trouble

- By Edward Helmore

Is the new Snow White a poisoned apple?

Five years ago a $250m remake of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Walt Disney's first full-length animated feature film, must have seemed like a fine idea to corporate executives, who were going all out on remaking the studio's dated classics into contemporary live-action movies.

But the film - its title trimmed to Disney's Snow White - has turned into a massive headache for the studio. The press have barely been let near the remake's stars, Rachel Zegler, who is of Colombian-Polish descent and plays Snow White, and Israeli actor Gal Gadot, playing the Evil Queen. And there are no dwarves.

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