# Peter Dinklage Rips Disney For ‘Snow White’ Remake: ‘What The F\*\*k Are You Doing?!’ **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [January 25, 2022, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-dinklage-rips-disney-for-snow-white-remake-what-the-f-k-are-you-doing/958359 "2022-01-25T13:44:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 42
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2023, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-dinklage-rips-disney-for-snow-white-remake-what-the-f-k-are-you-doing/958359/825 "2023-10-27T21:43:11Z")
Disney has released a CGI image of the new _Snow White_ with the “magical creatures” as dwarfs, and also pushed back the release date for the movie by a full year. So, weird. > **[‘Snow White’ First Look: Rachel Zegler and the Seven Dwarfs Join Forces in...](https://variety.com/2023/film/news/snow-white-reboot-first-look-rachel-zegler-seven-dwarfs-1235697109/amp/)** > > Disney has unveiled a first look at the live-action 'Snow White' film, with Rachel Zegler posing with the Seven Dwarfs. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2023, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-dinklage-rips-disney-for-snow-white-remake-what-the-f-k-are-you-doing/958359/826 "2023-10-27T22:37:40Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Disney has released a CGI image of the new _Snow White_ with the “magical creatures” as dwarfs, Good. ---
**Author:** ![Chingon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chingon/32/17645_2.png) [@Chingon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chingon)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2023, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-dinklage-rips-disney-for-snow-white-remake-what-the-f-k-are-you-doing/958359/827 "2023-10-27T22:58:10Z")
Crisis averted! Peter Woke-lage gets owned! ---
**Author:** ![Biffster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biffster/32/339_2.png) [@Biffster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffster)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2023, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-dinklage-rips-disney-for-snow-white-remake-what-the-f-k-are-you-doing/958359/828 "2023-10-29T05:00:40Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > So, weird. I know! Weird? Weird! ---
**Author:** ![Novelty\_Bobble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Novelty\_Bobble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Novelty_Bobble)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2023, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-dinklage-rips-disney-for-snow-white-remake-what-the-f-k-are-you-doing/958359/829 "2023-10-29T06:46:47Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Disney has released a CGI image of the new _Snow White_ with the “magical creatures” as dwarfs, and also pushed back the release date for the movie by a full year. So, weird. _That’s_ the best still Disney can release? That’s what $200 million gets you? I assume the delay is so that they can CGI-out all of the Camden hipster barristas and replace them whatever those things are now. It somehow seems, if possible, even more insulting that they are now doing dwarfs but ensuring they don’t have to hire any actual dwarf actors. And of course any post-production work is just going to inflate the budget even more making any possible profit more unlikely. At least the lead actress has been blissfully silent for a while so more feet have remained thankfully unshot. ---
**Author:** ![Biffster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biffster/32/339_2.png) [@Biffster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffster)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2023, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-dinklage-rips-disney-for-snow-white-remake-what-the-f-k-are-you-doing/958359/830 "2023-10-29T07:12:55Z")
> [@Novelty\_Bobble](#): > > It somehow seems, if possible, even more insulting that they are now doing dwarfs but ensuring they don’t have to hire any actual dwarf actors. Now there are seven dwarf actors who don’t have jobs instead of just six. I don’t know why they didn’t just go with the original plan. CGI actors suck. Especially in a “live action” movie. ---
**Author:** ![Novelty\_Bobble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Novelty\_Bobble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Novelty_Bobble)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2023, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-dinklage-rips-disney-for-snow-white-remake-what-the-f-k-are-you-doing/958359/831 "2023-10-29T07:15:49Z")
> [@Biffster](#): > > Now there are seven dwarf actors who don’t have jobs instead of just six. I’d forgotten about the poor guy roped in as the token dwarf. How must he be feeling? The only _actual_ dwarf in a movie that chose to sideline dwarfs has now been sacked as a dwarf. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2023, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-dinklage-rips-disney-for-snow-white-remake-what-the-f-k-are-you-doing/958359/832 "2023-10-29T12:47:56Z")
> [@Novelty\_Bobble](#): > > It somehow seems, if possible, even more insulting that they are now doing dwarfs but ensuring they don’t have to hire any actual dwarf actors. Yes, that certainly seems like a “worst of both worlds” outcome. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2023, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-dinklage-rips-disney-for-snow-white-remake-what-the-f-k-are-you-doing/958359/833 "2023-10-29T13:08:08Z")
> [@Novelty\_Bobble](#): > > _That’s_ the best still Disney can release? That’s what $200 million gets you? I have no idea what is going on with that image. Homage to the original movie but not reflective of how the characters will look in the new movie? Or is that what they are going to look like and that was the plan all along with that group of random people being stand-ins? Or what they are going to look like because of a Sonic-style backlash reshoot? Disney has give zero context for the image, and that almost looks like something from Midjourney. ---
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2023, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-dinklage-rips-disney-for-snow-white-remake-what-the-f-k-are-you-doing/958359/834 "2023-10-29T14:02:52Z")
…am I the only one who thinks it looks fine, and basically what I’d expect out of a Disney live action remake? ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2023, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-dinklage-rips-disney-for-snow-white-remake-what-the-f-k-are-you-doing/958359/835 "2023-10-29T22:22:21Z")
My first thought was “Why is Alfred E. Neuman looking over her right shoulder?” ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2023, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-dinklage-rips-disney-for-snow-white-remake-what-the-f-k-are-you-doing/958359/836 "2023-10-30T04:48:37Z")
> [@Biffster](#): > > Now there are seven dwarf actors who don’t have jobs instead of just six. I don’t know why they didn’t just go with the original plan. Peter “I got mine, jack” Dinklage is why. ---
**Author:** ![Biffster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biffster/32/339_2.png) [@Biffster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffster)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2023, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-dinklage-rips-disney-for-snow-white-remake-what-the-f-k-are-you-doing/958359/837 "2023-10-31T05:03:11Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > Peter “I got mine, jack” Dinklage is why. Very reminiscent of “Life’s Too Short” when Warwick Davis was running a dwarf talent agency but keeping all the best jobs for himself. ---
**Author:** ![Novelty\_Bobble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Novelty\_Bobble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Novelty_Bobble)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2023, 9:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-dinklage-rips-disney-for-snow-white-remake-what-the-f-k-are-you-doing/958359/838 "2023-10-31T09:48:33Z")
> [@Babale](#): > > …am I the only one who thinks it looks fine, and basically what I’d expect out of a Disney live action remake? Is it possible you have low expectations? It looks fine for a knocked-up rush job by a low-budget studio but this has been in production for years and had hundreds of millions spent on it (with god knows how much more to be spent before release). I’m not sure “fine” is the general reaction that Disney were hoping for. ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2023, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-dinklage-rips-disney-for-snow-white-remake-what-the-f-k-are-you-doing/958359/839 "2023-10-31T11:30:33Z")
Meh. Few Disney “first looks” stills have looked great to me. Some end up great, some not. I continue to have no idea how this will turn out, nor any reasonable guess whether Disney ever changed any plans actually. I was never part of the main target demographic of this movie, I suspect no one posting here is, so what I do think matters little. Disney probably isn’t shooting for me or you thinking fine or anything. We do not matter to them. I suspect it will make Disney enough profit but not be massive hit. Revisiting and occasionally reinterpreting old Disney intellectual properties is possibly past its prime. I do though become increasingly amused by the number of posters who have no idea what Dinklage actually said and those who “share” the bit about the talent agency movie thinking they’re the first to have cleverly thought of that. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2023, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-dinklage-rips-disney-for-snow-white-remake-what-the-f-k-are-you-doing/958359/840 "2023-10-31T11:47:11Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > Peter “I got mine, jack” Dinklage is why. This is such a ridiculous take, and has been ever since it first came up. ---
**Author:** ![Novelty\_Bobble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Novelty\_Bobble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Novelty_Bobble)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2023, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-dinklage-rips-disney-for-snow-white-remake-what-the-f-k-are-you-doing/958359/841 "2023-10-31T11:57:02Z")
> [@DSeid](#): > > I suspect it will make Disney enough profit but not be massive hit. Will it though? They are likely to be $300 million in the hole for this by the time it comes out. Add on marketing etc. and the general thought is that you need to bring in 3 times the budget to make a meaningful profit. That means it very much does need to be a massive hit. GOTG3-size. That puts it as needing almost a billion and I don’t see it making anywhere near that. The latest run of Disney releases have been underwhelming critically and at the box office and that’s got to be a worry. Even Indy 5 ($300 million budget) never turned a profit. I wonder if they might shelve Snow White completely and cut their losses. ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2023, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-dinklage-rips-disney-for-snow-white-remake-what-the-f-k-are-you-doing/958359/842 "2023-10-31T14:34:03Z")
> [@Novelty\_Bobble](#): > > Will it though? Maybe not? You are right that The Mouse has not had a string of clearly profitable bets lately. And not for lack of putting the money in. ---
**Author:** ![ZonexandScout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zonexandscout/32/544_2.png) [@ZonexandScout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZonexandScout)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2023, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-dinklage-rips-disney-for-snow-white-remake-what-the-f-k-are-you-doing/958359/843 "2023-10-31T14:40:20Z")
My mind wobbles about the whole thing. With the CGI work on the dwarfs and the huge number of reshoots required of the live actors, I don’t see how this could end up costing any less than IJ5. I suspect it will be significantly more. I can easily see them just scrapping the whole project after it’s off the front page, or slipping it into Disney+. And I wonder what Zegler and Gadot will do? Neither one will be happy if the movie goes immediately to streaming or gets cancelled. Legal action? I suspect that Disney might “suggest” that they weren’t satisfied with one performance or the other and that this was a contributing factor. (Got to save face somehow, right?) That’s going to provoke some strong reactions from Zegler, Gadot, or both. If Disney had started out with the mix of live action and CGI characters from the start, as they did with TLM, there might have been a chance for making a profit. As it stands now, I doubt it. ---
**Author:** ![Novelty\_Bobble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Novelty\_Bobble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Novelty_Bobble)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2023, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-dinklage-rips-disney-for-snow-white-remake-what-the-f-k-are-you-doing/958359/844 "2023-10-31T15:55:05Z")
> [@ZonexandScout](#): > > And I wonder what Zegler and Gadot will do? Neither one will be happy if the movie goes immediately to streaming or gets cancelled. Legal action? Batgirl was pretty much completed and just dumped completely by Warner Bros. I don’t think any legal action ensued (I suspect there are clauses in contracts that cover such an eventuality) but I stand to be corrected. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-dinklage-rips-disney-for-snow-white-remake-what-the-f-k-are-you-doing/958359.md?page=41) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-dinklage-rips-disney-for-snow-white-remake-what-the-f-k-are-you-doing/958359.md?page=43)