Disney’s New Snow White Remake Is a Disaster, but It Actually Could Have Been Worse
After a bit less than two weeks spent in the theatres, the scandalous movie is officially the worst-rated remake Disney has ever released.
Many have seen this coming all along, but things turned out to be even worse for Disney ’s new live-action remake of Snow White starring Rachel Zegler and Gal Gadot in the leading roles.
Released in theatres on March 21, the movie expectedly bombed in the box office, having currently grossed $142 million against the impressive budget of around $300 million; it didn’t do quite well with critics either, receiving an average score of 40% on Rotten Tomatoes.
The film is now projected to become Disney’s biggest disaster in history, though things could have been way more complicated had the mouse house decided to go with its original idea for the old classic’s remake.
Snow White Could Have Become a Kung Fu Movie (What?)
Currently rated 1.5/10 on IMDb, the Rachel Zegler-led Snow White keeps showing that its results couldn’t get any worse at this point, though Disney’s initial plan for the movie might have just proved it wrong.
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Despite having been announced all the way back in 2016, Snow White was in the studio’s upcoming schedule for much longer than that as it reportedly was pushed in the works in the early 2000s.
However, the modernized version of the 1937 Disney masterpiece wasn’t supposed to follow the original storyline at all, instead becoming a fantasy-action adventure film that would tell the story of an English woman in 19th century’s Hong Kong.
Natalie Portman was rumoured to have been eyed for the leading role back then, with the actress potentially portraying Snow White’s version in Asian landscapes trying to flee the country and eventually finding shelter with seven men connected to a mysterious order that fights demons and, well, dragons too.
The movie even received an official title, Order of the Seven, though eventually got stuck in the production hell and, for better or for worse, never got out of there after all.
Another Snow White Modern Reboot Also Proved It to Be a Failing Idea
The scrapped movie about Snow White fighting her way back to freedom might have served as a signal for modern filmmakers to leave the Disney classic alone as it is; in recent years, however, there was more than one attempt to adapt the story and to pretty different circumstances.
Before a musical movie with Rachel Zegler came along, Snow White’s story was also used as the base for Rupert Sanders’ 2012 fantasy action-adventure film Snow White and the Huntsman.
Starring Kristen Stewart in the leading role, the movie offers a more brutal perspective of Disney’s animated classic, which was probably the reason why Snow White and the Huntsman wasn’t met with much acclaim, despite grossing almost $400 million in the box office.
