Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic Walt Disney\u2019s live-action remake of its 1937 classic Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs opens in cinemas on Friday, trailed by controversies that have dragged the company back into the culture wars \u2014 a fate chief executive Bob Iger has been trying to avoid.Snow White actress Rachel Zegler has faced online attacks from people who said her Colombian heritage made her unsuited for the role. She drew criticism for saying the original film was outdated, and later for online posts about US President Donald Trump and his supporters \u2014 providing ammunition to critics of \u201cwoke\u201d Disney.Meanwhile, Zegler and Gal Gadot, the Israeli actress who plays the Evil Queen, are on opposite sides of the Israel-Gaza conflict, creating an air of tension around the film. The controversies appear to have dented box office prospects for Snow White, which is estimated to have cost $270mn to make. \u201cEarly on, the opening weekend projections were much higher, but have now dropped to about $45mn to $50mn in the US and maybe $100mn globally for its debut,\u201d said Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst at Comscore. After a brief retirement, Iger returned to Disney in 2022 amid a dispute with Florida\u2019s governor over issues about the rights of gay and transgender people. Since then he has sought to lessen the company\u2019s political risk, including telling filmmakers to go easy on social messaging. But the Brothers Grimm tale of a princess\u2019s fate at the hands of an evil queen has resurrected controversies dating back to the film\u2019s inception nearly a decade ago.Disney has been in damage-control mode. The company restricted media access to the film\u2019s stars at the Hollywood premiere last weekend, and it opted for northern Spain instead of a splashy location such as London\u2019s Leicester Square for its European rollout.It sought to build early buzz by promoting it twice at its D23 conferences for Disney superfans, a safe space. Zegler also made a promotional trip to Tokyo, where a big fan base is less concerned about \u201cwoke\u201d politics.\u201cWe can\u2019t fight the culture wars,\u201d said a Disney executive. \u201cEverybody criticising this movie was never going to see this movie. Disney isn\u2019t going to change minds.\u201dDisney began planning for an updated live action version of Snow White in 2016. The company had found success by refreshing other titles from its library, including 101 Dalmatians, Aladdin and The Jungle Book, which introduced old characters to new audiences \u2014 and capitalised on proven stories it owned. Some have been blockbusters, including Alice in Wonderland in 2010 and Beauty and the Beast in 2017, both of which ultimately grossed more than $1bn apiece.Yet as the \u201cwoke\u201d backlash gathered force in recent years, another Disney remake suffered a backlash similar to that Zegler and Snow White now face. Halle Bailey, the Black actress who starred in the live action version of Little Mermaid released in 2023, faced racist taunts from fans angry that the role of Ariel was not played by a white actress.The company has long been a target over its positions on social issues. Southern Baptists launched a boycott of Disney in 1997 after it provided insurance benefits to employees with same-sex partners. But the pressure reached new levels of intensity in 2022 during the \u201cDon\u2019t Say Gay\u201d controversy in Florida.The company came out in opposition to a law restricting discussions about gay issues in public schools following outcry from its employees in the state, where its Walt Disney World theme park makes it Florida\u2019s largest employer. In response, governor Ron DeSantis, who had labelled the company \u201cwoke Disney\u201d, took away its ability to govern the area around its theme parks, as it had done since the 1960s.Since then, Iger has sought to lower the political temperature. \u201cWe have to entertain first. It\u2019s not about messages,\u201d he said at a conference in 2023. Some inside the company see a connection between the dramatic societal changes in recent years \u2014 from #MeToo and Black Lives Matter to the anti-woke backlash \u2014 and the controversies that have engulfed Snow White. \u201cThe culture shifted under our feet\u201d since the film was greenlit, the Disney executive said.Given the age of the Snow White story and the sensitivity around having comical dwarfs as central characters, there was always going to be some risk involved in a remake. But the film had a strong cast: Zegler showed off her voice in Steven Spielberg\u2019s well-received 2021 version of West Side Story, and Gadot was the star of Wonder Woman and other box office hits.In a 2022 interview with Vanity Fair, Zegler said she had heard jokes about being in a \u201cpolitically correct\u201d version of Snow White. \u201cIt\u2019s an 85-year-old cartoon, and our version is a refreshing story about a young woman who has a function beyond \u2018Someday My Prince Will Come\u2019,\u201d she said, referring to the song from the 1937 version. Her comment that the prince \u201cliterally stalks\u201d the princess in the 1937 film also rankled older fans.The same year, the actor Peter Dinklage, who has a form of dwarfism, attacked the project.He said the filmmakers were \u201cvery proud to cast a Latina actress\u201d as Snow White \u201cbut you\u2019re still telling the story of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs\u201d. The filmmakers were still making a \u201cbackwards story of seven dwarfs living in a cave together\u201d, he said on the WTF with Marc Maron Podcast. (Disney said it consulted \u201cwith members of the dwarfism community\u201d and planned a \u201cdifferent approach\u201d.) Then there is the Israel conflict. Gadot, who served in the Israel Defense Forces, has publicly supported the country since it was attacked by Hamas on October 7 2023. Zegler has expressed support for Palestine, including in a post on X following the release of the Snow White trailer that said: \u201cAnd always remember, free palestine.\u201dReviews have been mixed. New York Times critic Manohla Dargis called it \u201cperfectly adequate\u201d while labelling the criticism \u201ca dispiritingly familiar spectacle of bigotry and nonsense\u201d. The New York Post declared it \u201cHeigh-ho-hum\u201d and gave it two stars. Financial Times\u2019 reviewer Danny Leigh awarded three, saying Zegler brings \u201cwit and zip\u201d but the film is \u201crisk-averse to the point of blandness\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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