Snow White will continue to whistle while she works for another full year. The film was supposed to be released in March 2024, but it’s now been pushed to March 21, 2025. The Rachel Zegler-led Disney flick is the latest in a string of films to be delayed amid the ongoing actors strike; the next Pixar animated movie Elio has also been moved off the 2024 calendar, and will now premiere June 13, 2025, per The Hollywood Reporter.
For any Snow White heads who may be disappointed by this news, your consolation prize is a new first-look image of the movie featuring Zegler as the titular princess surrounded by her seven dwarves. Those closely following this sometimes controversial production will note that, far from the photo of an eclectic group of “magical folk” that circulated the Internet earlier this year, the dwarves are instead CGI-animated creations. Beyond that, there’s not much to be gleaned about the adaptation from this image. We haven’t yet gotten to see Gal Gadot’s Evil Queen, but this is at least a good look at Snow White’s classic blue-and-gold frock.
Speaking of that frock, SAG-AFTRA member Rachel Zegler mentioned it specifically when she was walking the picket line: “If I’m going to stand there 18 hours in a dress of an iconic Disney princess, I deserve to be paid for every hour that it is streamed online,” she told Entertainment Tonight. Her comments came after Disney CEO Bob Iger called striking workers’ demands “not realistic” and said their actions were “quite frankly, very disruptive.” (Iger made those remarks on July 13, the day that SAG-AFTRA called its strike order and while the writers guild was still striking.)
To be disruptive, of course, is the point of a strike, and it’s obviously made a huge impact on the industry if tentpole films from major studios are being halted and rearranged. (Jonathan Majors’ Magazine Dreams was also pulled from the schedule, though that may have as much if not more to do with his legal issues than the SAG-AFTRA strike.) As SAG-AFTRA continues talks with the AMPTP this week, hopefully, a resolution will soon be found so movies can actually start coming out.