Sorry, Rachel Zegler Fans, Disney’s Live-Action Snow White Remake Has Been Hit With A Big Delay
After making making an incredible film debut in late 2021 playing Maria in Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story remake, Rachel Zegler’s Hollywood profile has soared even higher this year thanks to the 2023 movie releases Shazam! Fury of the Gods, which came out in March, and The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, which arrives next month. After that, audiences will see her in arguably her biggest role yet: playing Snow White in Disney’s live-action remake of 1937’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. But I have bad news for Zegler fans: the upcoming Disney movie has been hit with a big delay.
Disney announced today that it’s moving Snow White from March 22, 2024 to March 21, 2025. In other words, rather than getting to enjoy this flick as one of the earlier offerings on the 2024 movies calendar, We’ll now have to wait Zegler putting her own spin on the first Disney Princess for roughly a year and a half longer. According to THR, this delay was prompted by the ongoing SAG-AFTRA strike, as was the decision to move Pixar’s Elio from March 1, 2024 to June 13, 2025.
The actors strike has been going on since July 14, and among the effects of its continuation is actors not being able to promote their upcoming projects unless special agreements are worked out with the union. While it’s entirely possible that the strike could end before Snow White’s original March 2024 release date, evidently Disney felt it was better to play it safe in order to ensure that Zegler and her costars would be available to plug it. So instead, it’s one of the few movies now officially slotted to come out in 2025 and arriving basically an exact year than had been the plan until today.
More to come…
