Snow White (2025 movie)

Disney's Snow White is an American musical fantasy movie. It was released on March 21, 2025 in the United States. It has received mixed reviews from audiences and critics, who praised Rachel Zegler's performance as Snow White, the music score, and visual effects, but criticized Gal Gadot's performance as the Evil Queen, the reimagining of the Seven Dwarfs, and its lack of charm and faith. It has grossed $87.3 million worldwide.

Snow White
Directed by	Marc Webb
Screenplay by	Greta Gerwig Erin Cressida Wilson
Based on	Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs by Ted Sears     Richard Creedon     Otto Englander     Dick Rickard     Earl Hurd     Merrill De Maris     Dorothy Ann Blank     Webb Smith "Snow White" by the Brothers Grimm
Produced by	Marc Platt Jared LeBoff
Starring	Rachel Zegler Andrew Burnap Gal Gadot
Cinematography	Mandy Walker
Edited by	Mark Sanger
Music by	Jeff Morrow Larry Morey Frank Churchill Pasek and Paul
Production companies	Walt Disney Pictures Marc Platt Productions
Distributed by	Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
Release date	March 21, 2025
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$90 million

Plot

A benevolent king and queen welcome their daughter during a snowstorm, naming her Snow White to honor the day. Years later, the queen falls ill and passes away. The king hastily remarries before mounting a campaign against an encroaching threat. When he does not return, the new queen usurps the throne, revealing herself as an enchantress whose vanity surpasses her beauty.

Under the Evil Queen's rule, subjects are either left destitute or conscripted into the royal guard. Snow White, meanwhile, is confined to the palace as a scullery maid. The Queen, fearing that Snow White's beauty will outshine her own, consults a Magic Mirror daily, asking it to name "the fairest one of all". The Mirror always responds in her favor, pleasing her.

One day, Snow White sees Jonathan, the cynical leader of a band of bandits, raiding the pantry. When he is sentenced to be tied to the gates, she frees him and gives him food. That same day, the Magic Mirror declares that Snow White is now the fairest. Enraged, the Queen orders the Royal Huntsman to take Snow White into the forest, kill her, and bring her heart back in a jeweled box. The Huntsman instead warns Snow White of the Queen's intentions. At his urging, Snow White flees deep into the forest.

Woodland creatures lead Snow White to a secluded cottage, where she falls asleep. Later that night, she awakes to find herself confronted by the cottage's owners, seven "magical beings"—Doc, Grumpy, Bashful, Sleepy, Sneezy, Happy, and Dopey—who work in a diamond mine. They take pity on her and agree to let her stay. Meanwhile, the Queen, having learned from the Magic Mirror that Snow White is still alive, imprisons the Huntsman before ordering a manhunt.

Snow White and Jonathan meet again in the forest and fend off the guards alongside the bandits. The two realize their feelings for each other before Jonathan departs to find the king, whom Snow White believes may still be alive. Jonathan is captured by the guards and imprisoned by the Queen, who deduces Snow White's whereabouts. Retreating to her secret chambers, she transforms into a peddler woman and creates a poisoned apple to curse Snow White with the Sleeping Death.

After Snow White's friends leave for work, the Queen finds their cottage and tricks Snow White into eating the apple by saying she is an ally of Jonathan's. She then reveals to her stepdaughter that she killed her father. Snow White falls into the "Sleeping Death," and the Queen retreats to her castle. Snow White's friends find her sleeping body upon returning. Having escaped, Jonathan arrives to discover her dead and mournfully kisses her. Snow White awakens and rallies her friends and Jonathan's bandits to overthrow the Evil Queen.

Snow White confronts her stepmother, who forcefully goads her to take the throne, placing a diamond dagger into her hand. Snow White refuses to hurt her, reminding the people what the kingdom used to be like under her parents' rule. Moved by the memories and the princess' kindness, the guards stand up to the Queen and join Snow White's friends, the bandits, the Huntsman, and the civilians. The Queen tries to attack Snow White, but the dwarfs and bandits defend her. The Magic Mirror tells the Queen that Snow White will always be fairer than her due to her kindness and justness. Snow White arrives to see the Queen destroying the Mirror, which is revealed to be the source of her powers. As a result, she turns into glass herself and disappears into a vortex while the Magic Mirror repairs itself.

Having been named the new queen at a grand celebration, Snow White rules the land justly.

Overview

Disney's Snow White was directed by Marc Webb and produced by Marc Platt and Jared LeBoff. It is a live-action version of the 1937 animated movie Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

Production

Principal photography for the movie started in the United Kingdom on March 7, 2022 and ended on July 13.

Controversies

There has been a ton of controversy and criticism surrounding the movie. These include color-blind casting, the decision to make the dwarfs animated instead of hiring actors, Zegler negatively speaking about the original movie, and both Zegler and Gadot's opposite opinions on the Israel–Palestine conflict which called for boycotts from both pro-Israeli and pro-Palestinian sides. The trailer for the movie gained almost one million dislikes on YouTube, becoming the most disliked teaser for a movie trailer.

Release

The release date was pushed back a year because of the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike.

Cast

• Rachel Zegler as Snow White, a fearless and pure-hearted princess who is determined to free her kingdom from her stepmother's tyranny.
  • Emilia Faucher as young Snow White
• Gal Gadot as the Evil Queen, Snow White's jealous, tyrannical stepmother who is obsessed with being the fairest one of all.
• Andrew Burnap as Jonathan, a new character created for the film as Snow White's love interest (partially based on the Prince from the original film) and a rebel who wants to defy the Evil Queen's monarchy.
• Ansu Kabia as the Huntsman, an unnamed hunter and the Evil Queen's servant whom she orders to kill Snow White and bring back her heart.
• Patrick Page as the voice and facial motion capture for the Magic Mirror, a mirror containing a being that would truthfully answer the Evil Queen's question on who is the fairest one of all.
• Jeremy Swift as the voice/facial motion capture of Doc, the intelligent leader of the seven magical beings.
  • Jonathan Bourne as the motion capture/puppeteer of Doc
• Martin Klebba as the voice/facial motion capture of Grumpy, a grouchy member of the seven magical beings.
  • Omari Bernard as the motion capture/puppeteer of Grumpy
• George Salazar as the voice/facial motion capture of Happy, a cheerful member of the seven magical beings.
  • David Birch as the motion capture/puppeteer of Happy
• Andy Grotelueschen as the voice/facial motion capture of Sleepy, a tired member of the seven magical beings.
  • Sandy Foster as the motion capture/puppeteer of Sleepy
• Tituss Burgess as the voice/facial motion capture of Bashful, a shy member of the seven magical beings.
  • Leah Haile as the motion capture/puppeteer of Bashful
• Jason Kravits as the voice/facial motion capture of Sneezy, a member of the seven magical beings who sneezes a lot.
  • Dominic Owen as the motion capture/puppeteer of Sneezy
• Andrew Barth Feldman as the voice/facial motion capture of Dopey, a member of the seven magical beings who communicates through sounds instead of speaking.
  • Feldman also narrates the film
  • Jaih Betote as the motion-capture/puppeteer of Dopey

Other websites

• Official website