Gal Gadot’s Netflix Failure, A Bad Sign for Disney’s live-action ‘Snow White’ Reboot

Snow White‘s prospects could be rescued with a strong cast, but the filmmakers’ choice of lead actresses isn’t a particularly good omen. West Side Story Rachel Zegler is playing the Disney Princess herself, but her role comes after her recent movie, Shazam! Fury of the Gods, crashed at the box office. Similarly, Gal Gadot, who has been cast as the villainous Evil Queen, recently struggled to impress critics with her latest major role in the Netflix movie Heart of Stone, a glossy spy thriller that largely failed to make a dent on the movie scene.  Heart of Stone, which follows Gadot as an international agent in the vein of Mission: Impossible, did not have the latter’s skill in winning over audiences and critics. Currently, Heart of Stone has a 32% critics score on Rotten Tomatoes, and while audiences generated a kinder 61% rating, the numbers were decidedly lackluster. This could signal tides being against the Wonder Woman star, making her a risky choice for Disney’s Snow White. Snow White follows a lackluster performance from this year’s live-action adaptation of The Little Mermaid, starring Halle Bailey, which found itself lagging behind other Disney remakes at the box office. In another worrying sign, adapting 1937’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs has already proven controversial, with actor Peter Dinklage calling Snow White“backwards”for its casting of people without dwarfism. Disney responded that it was “taking a different approach” to the dwarfs.

Although casting a big-name actress like Wonder Woman star Gadot might initially seem to be a strategy to paper over some of these problems, it could in fact actually make matters more risky.  Snow White‘s prospects could be rescued with a strong cast, but the filmmakers’ choice of lead actresses isn’t a particularly good omen. West Side Story Rachel Zegler is playing the Disney Princess herself, but her role comes after her recent movie, Shazam! Fury of the Gods, crashed at the box office. Similarly, Gal Gadot, who has been cast as the villainous Evil Queen, recently struggled to impress critics with her latest major role in the Netflix movie Heart of Stone, a glossy spy thriller that largely failed to make a dent on the movie scene. (Source: screenrant.com)