Disney Had a Universe of Live-Action Snow White Spinoffs Planned — What Happened?

Disney was looking at various Snow White projects back in the early 2010s, but none of their proposed projects ever saw the light of day.

Mar 18, 2025 - 23:02
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Disney Had a Universe of Live-Action Snow White Spinoffs Planned — What Happened?

It's been ten years since Disney released its live-action version of Cinderella, starring Lily James and Cate Blanchett. Directed by Kenneth Branagh, the movie was overall a critical and commercial hit, and ushered in a new era of Disney remakes, kicking off a trend that was already being announced with 2010's Alice in Wonderland and 2014's Maleficent, sparsely produced films that didn't yet give signs of the industrial levels of production that were to come. Indeed, Cinderella is a pretty fun adventure-romance, with good performances and a story and look that don't necessarily follow the 1950 classic all that closely. Sadly, the same cannot be said for the movies that came after it. While some, like the unfortunately direct-to-streaming release Peter Pan & Wendy, are entertaining and inventive. Most, however, like the photorealistic version of The Lion King or the absolute mess that was Pinocchio, are well below the quality standards that came to be expected from the House of Mouse over more than a century of history. Still, one question remained: when would Disney bring into the live-action world the movie that started it all? When would we see a remake of 1937's Snow White, or, rather, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs?