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.
Good.
Crisis averted! Peter Woke-lage gets owned!
I know! Weird? 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.
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.
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.
Yes, that certainly seems like a “worst of both worlds” outcome.
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.
…am I the only one who thinks it looks fine, and basically what I’d expect out of a Disney live action remake?
My first thought was “Why is Alfred E. Neuman looking over her right shoulder?”
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.
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.
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.
This is such a ridiculous take, and has been ever since it first came up.
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.
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.
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.
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.