Live Action Snow White - too far a departure from the original?

I don’t think they made any changes. People overreacted to a contextless picture that probably wasn’t remotely close to production-ready.

And no, no casting changes either.
It's all opinion but I'm going with they realize they screwed up and needed to fix the dwarves.should probably get a new Snow White too
But again thats opinion. Here's a fact though....the cost to make this movie with all new filming is going to be insane. Prob should scrap it
 
It's all opinion but I'm going with they realize they screwed up and needed to fix the dwarves.should probably get a new Snow White too
But again thats opinion. Here's a fact though....the cost to make this movie with all new filming is going to be insane. Prob should scrap it
Zegler said they were done with filming earlier this year and there's no indication right now that there will be reshoots. Both of Disney's March 2023 releases (the other coming from Pixar) were moved to 2025 today due to the ongoing actor strikes, which have hit other movies as well.
 
Zegler said they were done with filming earlier this year and there's no indication right now that there will be reshoots. Both of Disney's March 2023 releases (the other coming from Pixar) were moved to 2025 today due to the ongoing actor strikes, which have hit other movies as well.
Like I said before if you want to go with the actors strike as the reason go for it. I'm going with they know they messed up with the magical creatures. They saw the brat talking all that nonsense and having all bad publicity. There was never cgi dwarves. It's going to be a lot of more money to make this film.
 
Like I said before if you want to go with the actors strike as the reason go for it. I'm going with they know they messed up with the magical creatures. They saw the brat talking all that nonsense and having all bad publicity. There was never cgi dwarves. It's going to be a lot of more money to make this film.
Yeah, you also thought Zegler might be replaced even though she’s in the photo Disney just published.
 

the "non dwarf" actors was just rumors and those "leaked" set photos were described as fakes pretty quickly.

Zegler has also been pretty spot on with everything she said while also have to defend herself and Bailey from racist trolls over their casting
 
the "non dwarf" actors was just rumors and those "leaked" set photos were described as fakes pretty quickly.

Zegler has also been pretty spot on with everything she said while also have to defend herself and Bailey from racist trolls over their casting
The leaked photos were actually confirmed by Disney to be real.
 
So this ^ - THIS is what everyone's been complaining about? That looks like a pretty spot-on adaptation to me :confused3
Ummm….obviously this was not the original intention.
I don’t think they made any changes. People overreacted to a contextless picture that probably wasn’t remotely close to production-ready.

And no, no casting changes either.
Yeah ok. Let’s all get on board with that explanation.
Zegler said they were done with filming earlier this year and there's no indication right now that there will be reshoots. Both of Disney's March 2023 releases (the other coming from Pixar) were moved to 2025 today due to the ongoing actor strikes, which have hit other movies as well.
Sure. No doubt this is all about the actor strikes and had nothing to do with the enormous backlash.

If anyone believes that they are not doing a retooling of the dwarves then I have a bridge or 2 to sell you. They specifically said the dwarves were going to be seven magical creatures and then voila they are now 7 dwarves. OK. As far as the actress portraying Snow White? Clearly they are not replacing her as they would have to reshoot the whole movie. They are hoping any backlash regarding her dies down while they work in the dwarf CGI.
 
Ummm….obviously this was not the original intention.

Yeah ok. Let’s all get on board with that explanation.

Sure. No doubt this is all about the actor strikes and had nothing to do with the enormous backlash.

If anyone believes that they are not doing a retooling of the dwarves then I have a bridge or 2 to sell you. They specifically said the dwarves were going to be seven magical creatures and then voila they are now 7 dwarves. OK. As far as the actress portraying Snow White? Clearly they are not replacing her as they would have to reshoot the whole movie. They are hoping any backlash regarding her dies down while they work in the dwarf CGI.
Dwarves are magical creatures. And Disney went the CGI route to make them look less like they're just human little people.
 
The leaked photos were actually confirmed by Disney to be real.
People are just oblivious and don't want to accept the truth. They were 100% magical creatures that looked awful. The brat didn't know when to shut her mouth. I still don't see the prince stalking her but that's just me. Why can't people just admit Disney messed up with the dwarves and casting of her. The brat was nowhere near spot on in fact she couldn't be more wrong. Like I said earlier I guarantee this garbage doesn't even ever come out and wait till they see how much cgi costs.
 
Dwarves are magical creatures. And Disney went the CGI route to make them look less like they're just human little people.
Of course but it seems obvious the CGI route was not their original intention. I mean blindingly obvious. They could have nipped this controversy in the butt months ago. No one could possibly believe that they has no CGI done prior to…now? With a movie that’s been in production well over a year, before the actors strike? The live action part was filmed in 2022. The strike began this summer of 2023. So does anyone believe that for some bizarre reason, in a major film production, there was no CGI done (like at all, enough to release one stinking image) before now? When live action filming wrapped up over a year ago? And now magically the film will be postponed a whole year? Ok.
 
Maybe the leaked photos were of the seven actors portraying the seven dwarves, like what Andy Serkis did for Gollum.

Or maybe not.

Throw in a few action scenes and don't stay true to the cartoon adaptation and we'll be at the theater.
 
Of course but it seems obvious the CGI route was not their original intention. I mean blindingly obvious. They could have nipped this controversy in the butt months ago. No one could possibly believe that they has no CGI done prior to…now? With a movie that’s been in production well over a year, before the actors strike? The live action part was filmed in 2022. The strike began this summer of 2023. So does anyone believe that for some bizarre reason, in a major film production, there was no CGI done (like at all, enough to release one stinking image) before now? When live action filming wrapped up over a year ago? And now magically the film will be postponed a whole year? Ok.
Here's a long list of all the movies and TV shows that have been delayed as a result of the strike. In one case, a delay of a year even though the movie was finished and scheduled to be released earlier this month.
 
Of course but it seems obvious the CGI route was not their original intention. I mean blindingly obvious. They could have nipped this controversy in the butt months ago. No one could possibly believe that they has no CGI done prior to…now?
Typically you have to finish filming first, then add CGI, just like what James Cameron did with the Avatar cast. It's entirely possible that they didn't start the CGI part until this year.
 
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Typically you have to finish filming first, then add CGI, just like what James Cameron did with the Avatar cast. It's entirely possible that they didn't start the CGI part until this year.
That might be true, but even comparing Avatar 2 to Snow White (and I think we can all agree that the CGI production in Avatar far surpassed anything that will be done in Snow White), Avatar 2 was released 2 years after live action filming was completed. Snow White live action filming was completed in July 2022. And that would include any dwarf/magical creatures voiceover work if that did occur (because Martin klebba stated in July 2022 that “I just got done filming Snow White. It’s going to be coming out late next year. And, of course, I play Grumpy. Gal Gadot is our witch, and Rachel Zegler will be our Snow White. So, come on down, it’ll be a good time.” So I assume if he was voicing that character that all voice-over work would have been completed around the same time. So to think that CGI work didn’t start until this year(and after the actors strike as well) seems kind of unbelievable.
 
Disney has spent this strike reviewing the quality of their forthcoming product.

Just like last month when they delayed Daredevil a year and tossed all of their filmed Daredevil series work (which was 1/2 of the coming season), fired almost every non-actor related to it, and are now in the process of hiring new folks (to include a new showrunner and new directors), the delay for Snow White and Elio says they are redoing a LOT of those movies, too.

That's a good thing. Disney seems to be on a u-turn of trying to deliver quality and story 1st again...but it's gonna cost them a lot of time and money to do so. The strike gave them the time to work out the plans for the fixes.
 
I only saw now a mention that the movie would get new music by the writers of the Greatest Showman.

Thoughts?
 
With one year delay with a film that was considered done shooting, I wouldn't be surprised at all if they "fired" the actors playing dwarfs and go full cgi, only using the voices. That is adequate time to get a decent cgi product. Not Cats 2019. This would mean that Disney still has faith in this movie to pump more money into it.

My issue with the picture released now is that Snow looks fragil, and the Dwarfs look like they could eat her. Now that would be a different movie!
 
People are just oblivious and don't want to accept the truth. They were 100% magical creatures that looked awful. The brat didn't know when to shut her mouth. I still don't see the prince stalking her but that's just me. Why can't people just admit Disney messed up with the dwarves and casting of her. The brat was nowhere near spot on in fact she couldn't be more wrong. Like I said earlier I guarantee this garbage doesn't even ever come out and wait till they see how much cgi costs.

your obsession with Zegler is weird.

Emma Watson on playing Belle - "She is a little different," Watson said. "I think we had a little bit more space and more room to tell a bit more of Belle's story in this one. I hope she's a slightly more modern version...she was updated a little bit but she was pretty progressive in her DNA really. She was a bit of a rebellious Disney princess."

Lilly James on Cinderalla - “This is a girl that’s not sitting around waiting for a prince to come and save her. That she’s got this unbelievable strength and it doesn’t come from fighting or from what happens, it comes from within. And the strength is her courage and her kindness and that, if she has that, she can, in a way, deal with, as best she can, what life throws at her”.

Zegler on playing Snow White - “I just mean that it’s no longer 1937,” Zegler said. “We absolutely wrote a ‘Snow White’ that ... she’s not going to be saved by the prince, and she’s not going to be dreaming about true love; she’s going to be dreaming about becoming the leader she knows she can be and that her late father told her that she could be if she was fearless, fair, brave and true.”

Statement from Disney on leaked photos - Meanwhile, in another statement to The Independent, a Disney spokesperson clarified, “The images that ran [in the Daily Mail] are not official film photos. These show stand-ins for some talent and do not feature Rachel Zegler or Andrew Burnap.”
 












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