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The son of one of the directors of Disney's original 'Snow White' film is calling the live-action remake starring Rachel Zegler "insulting." The live-action remake of 1937's 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs' doesn't come out until next year, but a culture war surrounding the film — titled simply 'Snow White' — is already at full boil.

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00:00The son of one of the directors of Disney's original Snow White film is calling the live

00:04action remake starring Rachel Zegler insulting. The live action remake of the 1937 movie Snow

00:11White and the Seven Dwarfs doesn't come out until next year, but a culture war surrounding the film,

00:15simply titled Snow White, is already at full boil. First, conservative critics took issue

00:20with the casting of Latina star Zegler as a character described in the original Brothers

00:24Grimm story as having skin as white as snow, as well as the production changing the seven

00:29dwarfs into a diverse collection of magical creatures of varying sizes. Then, an interview

00:33Zegler did at Disney's D23 Expo in September of last year recently resurfaced and caused a major

00:39stir online. While speaking to Variety, the 22-year-old actress suggested that the new movie

00:44would take a very different approach to the iconic character. She's not going to be saved by the

00:48prince and she's not going to be dreaming about true love. She's dreaming about becoming the leader

00:53she knows she can be. Since those nearly a year-old comments went viral, the internet has also

00:57resurfaced other old interviews with Zegler, like this one where she shared similar thoughts on the

01:01original 1937 film with Extra. There's a big focus on her love story with a guy who literally stalks

01:09her. Weird, weird. So we didn't do that this time. Now, David Hand, whose father, also named David

01:16Hand, was one of the directors of the original film, is sharing his thoughts on the live-action remake in a

01:21new interview with The Telegraph. The 91-year-old, who also worked as a designer for Disney in the

01:251990s, said,

01:27It's a whole different concept and I just totally disagree with it. And I know my dad and Walt would

01:31also very much disagree with it. Hand went on to call the film a disgrace and say of Disney,

01:36Their thoughts are just so radical now. They're making up new woke things and I'm just not into

01:40any of that. I find it quite frankly a bit insulting what they may have done with some of these classic

01:45films. He continued,

01:47There's no respect for what Disney did and what my dad did. I think Walt and he would be turning in

01:51their graves. Disney has not responded to the controversy and did not have a comment about

01:55this latest turn. Snow White, starring Zegler and Gal Gadot as the evil queen, which has not yet

02:00been seen by anyone outside the studio, even in trailer form, has completed filming and is slated

02:05to open March 22, 2024. For more on this story, go to THR.com. This is The Hollywood Reporter News.

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