Consulting with dwarfism group: Disney after Peter Dinklage slams studio for ‘Snow White’ remake

By PTI

LOS ANGELES: Hollywood studio Disney has responded to “Game of Thrones” star Peter Dinklage’s criticism of its upcoming live-action remake of the traditional animated film “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”.

Dinklage, greatest identified for taking part in Tyrion Lannister in HBO present “Game of Thrones”, just lately got here down closely on Disney for its determination to remake the film, which he known as “backward”.

In its response to the actor, Disney mentioned it was going to “avoid reinforcing stereotypes from the original animated film”.

“To keep away from reinforcing stereotypes from the unique animated movie, we’re taking a distinct method with these seven characters and have been consulting with members of the dwarfism group.

“We look forward to sharing more as the film heads into production after a lengthy development period,” a Disney spokesperson mentioned in an announcement to The Hollywood Reporter.

To be directed by Marc Webb, the rebooted model will characteristic Rachel Zegler of the “West Side Story” fame reverse Gal Gadot, who will essay the position of the Evil Queen.

It was throughout an interview on Marc Maron’s “WTF” podcast when Dinklage provided his views on the remake of “Snow White”.

“Literally no offence 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 Seven Dwarfs’,” Dinklage, 52, mentioned.

“Take a step back and look at what you’re doing there. It makes no sense to me,” he added.

Dinklage, who was born with a standard type of dwarfism known as achondroplasia, notably criticised the studio for making an attempt to current a “backward” story of “seven dwarfs living in a cave together”.

“You’re progressive in one way, but then you’re still making that f***ing backward story about seven dwarfs living in a cave together, what the f**k are you doing, man? Have I done nothing to advance the cause from my soap box? I guess I’m not loud enough. I don’t know which studio that is, but they were so proud of it. All love and respect to the actress and all the people who thought they were doing the right thing. But I’m just like, what are you doing?” he added.

The unique film, titled ‘Snow White and the Seven Dwarves’, was based mostly on the Grimm Brothers fairytale and launched in 1937.

It was Disney’s first animated characteristic movie and offered the story of a princess who’s fed a poisoned apple by her stepmother, the queen after which falls right into a deep sleep that may be damaged solely by a kiss from the prince.

Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, the songwriting duo behind ‘La La Land’, ‘The Greatest Showman’ and ‘Dear Evan Hansen’, will write new music for the movie, which is predicted to go in to manufacturing in 2022.