Snow White live action shocker - the SEVEN DWARVES have been replaced by SIX NORMAL SIZED HIPSTERS and one dwarf

Why are there eight "dwarves"? Is the guy in the lead a DA?

The one in the red jacket is non-binary.

He’s either the Prince or the Huntsman.

Why is there a black woman in there?

Let it bomb. Lesson learned.

Oh, but when we tried to do it, everybody freaked out.

R4 that’s the new non-dwarf dwarf, “Equity”

What, no wheelchair, or white cane?

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That actors' strike comes too late.

They look like they're remaking Godspell, not Snow White.

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[quote] They look like they're remaking Godspell

I was thinking The Seventh Seal

R12 it’s Disney’ doing

They didn’t HAVE to listen to him

Disney’s problem is that it no longer understands or has faith in the products the company is famous for, so it’s easily swayed by any criticism it receives

R11: "They look like they're remaking Godspell, not Snow White."

Day by day / Day by day / Oh, Alok, three things I pray / to gender thee more clearly / affirm thee more dearly / validate more cheerfully, day by day...

They look like the Manson family.

Bob Iger is a billionaire clown. He should be forced to step down just for his comments about the strike.

They have everyone’s favorite characters. Tiny, Whitey, Girly, Beardy, Tranny, Non binary

Ya know, having dwarves played into the whole fantasy thing and was ok; some chick takes care of little guys till she is rescued. Now 6' footers and what could be a 7-footer at the end of the line, well, that just went into the land of possible bad pornography.

This better be comedy or this will get creepy REAL fast.

LatinX Snow White. The Colombian-American actress faced scrutiny by some critics after she was cast as Snow White, who was described as having 'skin as white as snow'..

Disney announced that 'magical creatures' would replace the seven dwarves to 'avoid reinforcing stereotypes' after Game of Thrones actor Peter Dinklage criticised the 'f****** backwards story' last year.

'I was a little taken aback when they [Disney] 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,' he told Mark Maron's WTF podcast. 'It makes no sense to me. You're progressive in one way and you're still making that f***ing backwards story about seven dwarfs living in a cave together, what the f*** are you doing, man? Have I done nothing to advance the cause from my soapbox? 𝙄 𝙜𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙨 𝙄'𝙢 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙡𝙤𝙪𝙙 𝙚𝙣𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙝.'

Dinklage's concerns were shared by some charities, including the 𝑅𝘦𝑠𝘵𝑟𝘪𝑐𝘵𝑒𝘥 𝘎𝑟𝘰𝑤𝘵ℎ 𝐴𝘴𝑠𝘰𝑐𝘪𝑎𝘵𝑖𝘰𝑛 in the UK.

Tte upcoming adaptation will not feature a Prince Charming and will instead focus on a 'stronger' Snow White who dreams of becoming a leader.

Ms Zegler previously addressed reports that the film was trying to be politically correct, claiming that the story needed 'refreshing'.

She said: 'People are making these jokes about ours being the PC Snow White... yeah, it is - because it needed that.

'Our version is a refreshing story about a young woman who has a function beyond Someday My Prince Will Come.'

'People with restricted growth are in majority born to average height parents - they never live in gingerbread houses, have little bear beds nor live in homogeneous groups together.'

In other news, “Heigh Ho” has been removed to avoid upsetting marijuana dependent sex workers.

And Billy Eichner has been signed to play the Queen.

Soooo, they're doing a documentary, r20? Do we need to cancel fairy tales now?

Only having one dwarf smacks of tokenism.

Apparently in this version Snow White gets lost in Williamsburg Brooklyn in 2006.

Where's the Asian dwarf?

Snow had better stock up on Astroglide.

Let's fact check this, shall we?

This infuriates me beyond belief.

Wish the Brothers Grimm were alive to comment on how they feel about their fairy tale "needing refreshing."

You know what needs refreshing? The current climate of wanting to negate, disown and rewrite all of human history, and all of its cultural achievements.

Don't fucking shit on the Grimm fairy tales. Write your own magical tale. Leave other peoples' work ALONE!

TALK ABOUT APPROPRIATION!!!!

Snow White is not a story about making dwarves "less-than." The dwarves are just a magical species in a magical forest. There is no sense whatsoever of implying that their height makes them "less-than" a larger human. They are loving, kind, generous. They work really fucking hard every day, with a positive attitude. They adore Snow White and she them. I see nothing here that requires "refreshing."

The little people in the article at R12 are right on the money. As one says so eloquently, "This is a role made for me and our community for the first time ever," said Postl. "I can't be Superman or Spider-Man or Captain America. I can be one of the seven dwarfs. As a dwarf actor and a part of the dwarf community, this is made for me."

Fuck you, Dinklage. I have been a fan for many years, but this just sucks. He's ignorant as hell on this. HE is the one implying that having a dwarf in a film "on purpose" is pandering and wrong. HE is the one who is anti-little people with this mindset that it is weird to cast dwarves in a film on purpose, and to showcase that dwarfism as part of the character. OMG fuck off, Dinklage.

I think it would be okay to write a new story loosely based off of a beloved fairy tale, and call it something different. Like how Steve Martin updated Cyrano de Bergerac and called it "Roxanne." Update it that way. But to call your story a "remake" and act like you are providing a moral service to humanity by "fixing" the "problems" with the original story? FUCK RIGHT OFF.

Great job, Disney! I'll be boycotting this film.

Yeah in this case I’m going with the Daily Mail over Disney

Those photos are legit

"'People with restricted growth are in majority born to average height parents - they never live in gingerbread houses, have little bear beds nor live in homogeneous groups together.'"

YEAH BECAUSE THIS IS FAIRY TALE MAGIC LAND. NO ONE IN THE REAL WORLD DOES THE STUFF THAT HAPPENS IN FAIRY TALES.

Its why we love fairy tales. Because of all of the magical shit that happens in a fairy tale.

Bears don't sleep in little bear beds in real life, either. Should we boycott Goldilocks for depicting bears as living like humans?

Are they really suggestion now that we should update all fairy tales by taking every magical element out of them and making them to be just like things are in the boring, mundane normal world?

My GOD these people are so shockingly stupid.

R29 when you catch the Brothers Grimm come back to life, ask them to explain to you how they stole from prior tales and rewrote them in new & interesting ways.

Oh Daily Mail actually has VIDEO

This isn’t fake

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Meh. You know, given that these live action zombie versions of animation classics are an idiotic waste of time and money anyway, they might as well do something bonkers with it.

Also, these fairy tales belong to no one and to all. In Europe, they're churning out re-imaginings of classical fairy tales as children's movies all the time (usually for TV), so this is just one more on the crap heap.

I like the two new additions. Darky and Lazy.

It’s Snow WHITE

Dinklage is behind this for sure, terrorizing anyone who uses the word dwarf.

I like the one in the back, Tall Slacker.

This is beyond absurd. The Magas just have this shit served up on a plate for them.

They forgot the Asian.

They could have thrown Ellen Page a bone, she's at least dwarf-adjacent.

[quote] The Magas just have this shit served up on a plate for them.

Maybe this sort of shit year after year is what makes Magas

R9 oh my Frickin sides !!!!!!!! That was too funny.

Thats great that disney paid the homeless in la to be dwarfs

[quote]Dinklage is behind this for sure, terrorizing anyone who uses the word dwarf.

Does Santa know he’s here?

R17 Iger isn’t even behind this. Those of you blaming him must have dead brains. He just took over as CEO again a few months ago. This is the doing of the man before him.

Snow White.

What's next? The Wizard of Oz? Charlie and the Chocolate Factory?

When will the erasure end?

They’re actually remaking The Wizard of Oz

[quote] Iger isn’t even behind this. Those of you blaming him must have dead brains. He just took over as CEO again a few months ago. This is the doing of the man before him.

The insult was unnecessary but otherwise a fair point.

R51 it felt necessary. They’ve been working on Snow White for over two years. Bob Iger just came back November of 2022. In what world would he be to blame for this film?

While I DO love the idea of seven men living together, I don't mind the Black actress in one of the roles. Maybe her character is a carpenter or is a specialist in something not typically associated with or sought after by Black women. She can serve as a role model for those Black girls. Or girls and boys in general.

And I'm not a Disney person, but this doesn't exactly look promising. Sandy Powell designed the costumes. So time will undoubtedly tell. Of course, a single element CAN SHINE in an otherwise bad film. Ah, well. I'll wait for reviews.

I disagree with having a woman dwarf. Snow White is basically about a group of fags living in the woods who are given a diva female to protect and idolize. It’s about a chosen family. A female dwarf upends that dynamic.

R54 HOW DO YOU KNOW SHE IDENTIFIES AS FEMALE YOU TERF SCUM.

R12 Absolutely.

So there’s less little people in the Snow White movie and the Wonka movie.

He’s an asshole for that.

Who is in the red coat cuz that ain’t Rachel Zegler??

R57 nvm, Disney confirmed it is real but a stand in.

“A spokesperson for Disney later responded to the criticism in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter, saying: “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.”

This has not started filming?

Snow White being filmed was a huge part of the discourse in Zegler’s Oscars snub. People said White production was in full swing. She even thanked Snow White for letting her miss work when she could go. Soo… has it all been rehearsals until now? Or are they starting over?

[quote] Disney initially claimed the pictures from the live-action set were “fake”

Interesting how lying was Disney's first reaction to an easily verifiable story and Daily Beast jumping in to convey the lie.

Thank goodness for the Daily Mail's reporting of the truth

I remember years ago when my friends and I would say "vertically challenged" so as not to call someone "short". We were kidding, but of course it came true, dwarves are called "growth restricted" now? Jfc. And yeah, fuck Dinklage, I guess a Lannister doesn't always pay their debts after all. Dick.

He wants to be the only dwarf who gets to get paid to be a dwarf I guess no other midget actors are allowed to be elves.

I like that interpretation, R54: Snow White as a gay icon.

Snow White and the Seven Dwarves has a long history of being recognized for its queer iconography.

Note that the dwarves do not actually sexually desire Snow White. They simply elevate her to diva status.

R8 Yeah, they don't really seem to care about the disabled anymore do they?

There was so much care and love and a collective movement to help disabled people in the 70s and 80s. You don't see them anywhere mainstream anymore.

Looking for Mr. Goodbar had more showcasing of deaf community than anything I have seen out of Disney in the last 30 years.

I love this thread.

It's not called Snow White and the 7 Rando Hippies

Snow Brown and the Seven Non-Binaries

lol.

lol.

lol.

lol.

[quote] They’re actually remaking The Wizard of Oz

No they’re not.

This will bomb like The Little Mermaid.

R20, where’s the link?

As Friday's market closed Disney was down another two % to 88.62. It's been falling since last August.

I really don't see DEI Snow White doing any more to help Disney than she did for Spielberg in the West Side Story fiasco.

[quote]What's next? The Wizard of Oz? Charlie and the Chocolate Factory? When will the erasure end?

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory went woke 50 years ago when the African pygmies from the book were replaced with singing dwarves in orange makeup.

Why are they on an empty plain? Snow White’s story happened in a FOREST!

[quote] Why are they on an empty plain? Snow White’s story happened in a FOREST!

Be thankful it's not on a ghetto basketball court

R72 Kenya Barris of black-ish is developing a Wizard of Oz remake at Warner Bros.

Dorthea, Glenda the Good Bitch and T'oto the pitbull?

If they are diversifying one of them should be a hot twink with a big butt

R77, that's because trees are phallic symbols that reinforce the patriarchal notion that verticality is masculine and therefore, a manifestation of white, male, middle and upper class authoritarianism. By placing Snow Poweresse and Xir Seven ThemX in a meadow, Disney is highlighting the intersectional, pluriform reality in which all identity-bound communities of practice coexist in a diverse world in which acceptance and all existential truths achieve mutual reaffirmation beyond the context of an oppressive phallocracy.

It's a very deep reinterpretation of the fairy tale that reflects how Europe has always been multicultural and the Brothers Grimm were racist Nazis who were engaged in systemic racial and gender erasure of minorities, to the benefit of Hitlerian literary eugenics. Never mind the fact that they died long before fascism as a defined political ideology even existed... The case is that we must right the past's wrongs by forcing the reality we currently want onto it, because it's only by doing this that we will get true justice.

Oh, and by the way: I shouldn't have had to explain this to you at all. The fact that I've had to do it means that you're a white supremacist Russian troll and a transphobic, misogynistic TERF neo-Nazi.

I feel like I should get a college credit for reading the first paragraph of R82.

The tragic thing is that there are those who would take R82's parody as right and good.

[quote]Kenya Barris of black-ish is developing a Wizard of Oz remake at Warner Bros.

I'm available to play Dorothy.

R82 Brilliant!

Snow Woke?

Snow Woke and the Seven Non-Binaries?

𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐧𝐞𝐲 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐜𝐤 𝐇𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐋𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐂𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟑. 𝐈𝐭’𝐬 𝐍𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝟓𝟐-𝐖𝐞𝐞𝐤 𝐋𝐨𝐰.

Today Disney shares closed down three points. 85.56 USD −3.06

Iger put roughly a third of the company up for sale this week, declaring Disney’s linear TV assets noncore. That includes TV networks ABC, FX and Freeform. He also said Disney is looking for a strategic partner for ESPN — though he’s not willing to sell the whole thing — and the company is already looking to sell or restructure its TV and streaming business in India.

His streaming business is expected to register a loss of about $800 million in the company’s just-ended third quarter.

Management chased streaming subscribers at unsustainably low prices to goose the launch of Disney+ in 2019 and is now seeking to raise prices without alienating customers. (Disney+ lost 4 million subscribers last quarter.)

Iger put up a for-sale sign during an interview with CNBC in Sun Valley, Idaho, home to an annual summit of the media and tech elite organized by the investment bank Allen & Co. The conference has long served as an incubator for some of the media industry’s most high-profile deals — and a source of endless photos of executives walking in Patagonia vests.

It’s not yet clear how serious Iger is about selling entire TV networks. ABC, for example, is key to retaining NBA rights. FX has been a key supplier of programming to Hulu, which Iger plans to keep and fold into Disney+.

Yet Iger’s CNBC interview was unmistakably a distress signal. Disney is contractually obligated to buy Comcast Corp.’s one-third stake in Hulu in a deal that would value the business at least at $27.5 billion. It’s also wrestling with a colossal debt pile stemming from its $71.3 billion acquisition of 21st Century Fox in 2019.

A sale of the TV business could fetch around $8 billion, according to Wells Fargo analyst Steve Cahall — which would largely offset the cost of acquiring the piece of Hulu it doesn't yet own. Most of the potential suitors for linear TV networks are financial entities, like private equity firms, that would milk them for cash as they decline into obscurity.

The list of interested parties in ESPN is longer, and could include tech giants like Apple, as well as sports companies like Fanatics. The streaming side of the sports giant, ESPN+, remains more of a niche business. But Disney continues to signal it will offer all of ESPN outside of the cable bundle in the near future.

Wtf does that have to do with Snow Woke?

Uh oh...

She was supposed to be in Paddington 3 but was recast due to the strike. Big deal.

Maybe this will no longer be the most embarrassing thing Snow White has ever appeared in:

Ha! R92

Snow White is neither snow nor white. Discuss…

One film Disney won't be remaking: Pocahontas. There's no way to make that film PC.