West Side Story‘s breakout star Rachel Zegler gets elevated to Disney Princess status in yet another live action redux of one of the Mouse’s animated classics.
When is Disney’s Snow White being released in Australia?
Disney’s Snow White marches into Australian cinemas like a column of vertically-challenged miners on March 20, 2025.
Disney's Snow White
What is Disney’s Snow White about?
In case your parents failed you, Disney’s Snow White is a remake of the Big Mouse’s very first feature film, 1937’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, itself a riff on the venerable fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm first published in 1812. After her villainous stepmother the Evil Queen tries to have her offed by her huntsman, the beautiful princess Snow White hies off to the forest, where she takes shelter with seven dwarfs. Then there’s a poisoned apple, a coma, a handsome prince, lots of catchy tunes…look, you know this one.
The cast of Disney’s Snow White
Rachel Zegler is, obviously Snow White, a casting choice that drew harsh criticism from…well, morons; Wonder Woman‘s Gal Gadot is the Evil Queen; Andrew Burnap (Under the Banner of Heaven) is Jonathan, who we must assume by process of elimination is the Handsome Prince; Ansu Kabia, last seen in the Amy Winehouse biopic Back to Black, is the Huntsman; and the mighty Martin Klebba of Pirates of the Caribbean and Scrubs is Grumpy.
Six more dwarfs are presumably yet to be announced, unless Klebba winds up doing a Nutty Professor kind of thing. Marc Webb (The Amazing Spider-Man) is directing, from a script by Oscar winner Greta Gerwig and Erin Cressida Wilson, the screenwriter of… Secretary? That’s interesting.
Disney’s Snow White trailer
Why we’re excited about Disney’s Snow White
Hmm. Look, “creative dead end” is a hell of stone to hang around a movie’s neck. But these live action Disney remakes tend to only ever top out at “solid three stars” at best. There have been so many that they now have their own category on Wikipedia, with 21 already produced and eight more in various stages of development or production.
Rachel Zegler’s a wonderful performer and Marc Webb is…competent, but it’s hard to work up much enthusiasm. Having said that, the writing team of Gerwig and Wilson suggests the possibility that this version of the old story may be delving into some of the more thorny and interesting subtext, so here’s hoping.
To be fair, we’re keen to see what Questlove does with The Aristocats, though.
