Peter Dinklage Slams Disney's Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs Remake
Game of Thrones star, Peter Dinklage, is not impressed with Disney’s upcoming live-action remake of the animated classic Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. One of the latest movies from Disney to get the live-action remake treatment, Snow White has been in the works for a few years now. Although it was first announced in 2016, it was only recently that news broke that Gal Gadot would be playing the part of the Evil Queen, while breakout star Rachel Zegler (West Side Story) will play the title role of Snow White.
The film has also locked in Marc Webb to direct, (The Amazing Spider-Man, La La Land) while Marc Platt (The Greatest Showman, La La Land) will be on board as producer. Taking over the writing duties will be Greta Gerwig, (Lady Bird, Little Women) and new original music scores from La La Land duo Benj Pasek and Justin Paul will also be featured in the upcoming film. Little else is known at this point what the upcoming remake will have in store as far as a release date or specific plot details.
Related: Why Snow White Is Still The Best Disney Princess Movie
Recently, on the podcast WTF with Marc Maron, Dinklage dunked on the new Disney remake, saying “It’s f—king backwards.” The Cyrano star was discussing Disney’s decision to cast a Latina actress (Zegler), but pointed out the hypocrisy behind the studio doing a film that has a “backward story about seven dwarfs living in a cave together.” Dinklage continued by saying that he would be all for a remake that had a “cool or progressive spin on it.” The full quote can be read below:
“Literally no offense to anyone, but I was a little taken aback when they were very proud to cast a Latina actress as Snow White. But you’re still telling the story of ‘Snow White and the
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