Live-action film “Snow White” receives major update from star Rachel Zegler

Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs has finally finished filming — again. The Disney live-action remake of Walt Disney Animations’ first feature film has come a long way to the screen. Directed by Marc Webb (The Incredible Spiderman) and with Rachel Zegler (West Side Story) in the leading role of “Snow White”, with Gal Gadot (Wonder Woman) as the evil queen, the film was originally scheduled to be released in March 2024, but was postponed to 2025 due to the SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes in 2023.

Part of this delay was due to the film being reshotwhich is now finally completed. The shooting of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Filming was originally scheduled to take place from March 7 to July 13, 2022. Reshoots began in June 2024, two years after the first filming began. Star Rachel Zegler posted on her Instagram story that reshoots were complete. She wrote, “This is it for Snow White and I am so damn proud and emotional. I love these people so much.” The Instagram story has since expired, but fan account Rachel Zegler Daily posted a screenshot on X:

The many setbacks in the remake of Snow White

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs has experienced more setbacks than any other Disney live-action remake. Shooting on the film was originally scheduled to begin in March 2020, but shortly before the cameras rolled, production was closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Filming did not begin until two years later, in March 2022, just one week after shooting began. A fire broke out on the setwhereby parts of the set are destroyed.

The film was originally scheduled to be released on March 22, 2024, but on October 27, 2023, Disney pushed the release date back a full year to March 21, 2025. On the same day, Disney also released the first official image from the film, and the CGI dwarves in the film were heavily mocked on social media.

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Disney’s live-action adaptation of “Snow White”: Chances at the box office

While the Disney trend toward live-action remakes was initially exciting for new viewers, Alice in Wonderland Films like Cinderella And The jungle Bookbecame box office hits, the trend quickly began to frustrate fans and critics alike. Although Beauty and the Beast, AladdinAnd The Lion King Remakes grossed $1 billion at the box office worldwide, The mood of the audience towards them seems to be rather lukewarm to the point that it is a question whether Mufasa – The Lion Kinga prequel to 2019 The Lion Kingcould flop at the box office.

Disney now seems to have less confidence in the box office when it comes to remakes of Disney classics. Remakes of films from the Disney Renaissance, such as Beauty and the Beast And The little mermaidwere shown in cinemas, but after the box office disappointment of Dumboit seemed as if Disney had moved films that Walt Disney oversaw to Disney+. Both the remakes of Lady and the Tramp And Peter Pan & Wendy were not released in cinemas but made available directly via streaming.

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Star Rachel Zegler has received a lot of unjustified hate from people who take her words out of context to portray her and the film in a negative light. However, she still has a large fan base due to her roles in West Side Story And The Hunger Games – A Ballad of Songbirds and Snakesso Disney has stacked the cards in its favor. The only film that is supposed to compete against Disney is Old Knightin which Robert De Niro plays the two real gangsters Vito Genovese and Frank Costello. In addition Cinderella And Beauty and the Beastthe March release date was supposed to coincide with the spring break when the kids are out of school. Now that filming is officially complete, It’s only a matter of time before a trailer is released, probably in time for D23 in August.