“My father and Walt Disney would turn in their graves over this woke remake of Snow White,” David Hand, 91, son of the director of the same name, told The Telegraph. In 1937, his father directed Disney’s cult classic Snow White. As the franchise prepares a remake of the Brothers Grimm’s tale, announced for 2024, the heir to the creator of the first film trembles at the liberties taken with the original work.
American actress Rachel Zegler, cast to play the new Snow White in this remake of Mark Webb (The Amazing Spider-Man), announced several changes in an interview with Entertainment Weekly: “She will not be saved by the prince and won’t dream of finding his great love,” she gushed, referring to a “very dated” original version. The choice of the actress, of Colombian origin, was also the subject of controversy, as well as that of replacing the dwarfs with “magical creatures”.
“I know my dad and Walt [Disney] would have objected to that,” says the son of David Hand, who criticizes these deviations from the original. “Take something else.” Invent new characters. If you want to do that, fine, but don’t destroy a classic or a work of art,” he berates.
“It doesn’t feel like the origin stories anymore,” he laments, fearing “so radical” thoughts that “change the characters’ thinking.” The creators of the new Snow White “invent new woke things and I don’t like it very much, denounces the nonagenarian. I even find it insulting. There is no respect for Disney’s work and my father’s work.”
