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Disney releases first image of live-action "Snow White”
Baku, October 28, AZERTAC
Disney has released the first image of the live-action "Snow White”, with Rachel Zegler transformed to the iconic princess from the 1937 animated classic "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," according to USA Today.
Amid the ongoing actor's strike, Disney also announced that the Marc Webb-directed film will be delayed one year from coming to theaters, moving from March 22, 2024 to March 21, 2025.
The seven dwarfs have all been re-imagined for the live-action re-make, a source of some controversy from purists. But the characters Bashful, Doc, Dopey, Grumpy, Happy, Sleepy, and Sneezy are all in the group photo.
The movie will feature the "beloved" songs from the original, as well as new songs from "The Greatest Showman's" song-writing team of Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, according to the Disney blog post.
Zegler has owned the changes made to the live-action version, which also de-emphasizes Snow White's longing for The Prince.
“People are making these jokes about ours being the PC Snow White, where it’s like, yeah, it is—because it needed that," Zegler told Vanity Fair in 2022. "It’s an 85-year-old cartoon, and our version is a refreshing story about a young woman who has a function beyond ‘Someday My Prince Will Come.’ ”
The live-action adaptation of “Snow White” is scheduled to make its premiere in theaters in the U.S. on March 21, 2025, according to IMDb.