“And they all lived adequately ever after” is not the fairy-tale ending Disney was presumably originally gunning for. But at this point, the studio will surely take what it can get. Filming began on Disney’s Snow White in March 2022, and the intervening three years turned into the sort of ride that makes the studio’s Thunder Mountain roller-coaster look like a motorised stairlift.
First there was the representation problem. Do you cast short actors as the dwarfs, and risk perpetuating stereotypes, or use CGI and cheat the same actors out of high-profile work? (Disney opted for the latter; the studio was picketed.)
