Disney’s live-action Snow White finally landed in theaters on March 20, 2025, but it was a wild and distressed ride. What started as a promising plan to remake the first animated feature of the 1937 Classic – Disney’s first animated feature – suffered from delays and controversies. According to The Guardian report, the film, Rachel Zegler, starred as The Evil Queen, as Snow White and Gall Gadot, stumbled, backlash and production crisis in the film, which is the most cursed film of the year.

All this began in 2016 when Disney saw Snow White for a live-action update, after the success of Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast. However, troubles rapidly crushed. Rachel Zagaller’s casting criticized, with right -wing voices called him “waking up” due to Colombian roots. Zegler revealed in Cosmopolitan: “There was a lot of oppression – people – they were showing in my apartment and ripping the impure.” Then, the role of Gadot as a bad queen criticized the Palestinian groups upset with their Israeli defense forces.

The disputes continued. Zegler push for a modern snow white. “He is not being saved by the prince or dreaming of true love,” he angered the audience in the political spectrum in D23 in 2022. A distance of $ 270 million was covered in creative issues and budgets. Writers and actors’ attacks delayed the film further in a year. According to the Guardian report, Disney scored the premiere back six days before its release, banning the media’s reach in the in-house press.

The ticket sales started late two weeks before the debut, compared to the month-laid lead of the open-Little Marmed. The reviews are called “mostly captivating”, as this Hollywood reporter calls it “mostly captivating”. Opening $ 40–50 million weekend estimates in the US-not a disaster, but the animal’s $ 357 million inauguration. The dream of a fairy tale is sour, Snow White is caught in a storm that can avoid a storm.