Disney Planning Live-Action Musical Version Of Snow White

In the last few years we’ve had a few live-action Snow White movies, most notably Mirror Mirror and Snow White & The Huntsman. However, that hasn’t put Disney off adding the classic fariytale to their ever-lengthening roster of their classic animated movies they hope to turn live-action.

Like the upcoming Beauty & The Beast, with this film they hope to use some of the classic music and songs from the groundbreaking 1937 Snow White & The Seven Dwarves, but with some new music and a new feel. To do that they’ve hired Erin Cressida Wilson, who initially seems an unexpected hire, as her resume includes decidedly non-Disney films such as Secretary, Fur, and The Girl On The Train. However, with a feminist voice and interest in women who don’t follow the rules, she could be an interesting choice.

They’ve also snapped up Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, who most recently wrote the songs for the Oscar-tipped La La Land with Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling, to write the new music and rework the old. No director is currently attached and it’s not clear when Disney might be hoping to get it in cinemas.

This is actually the second Snow White related movie Disney has put in the works, and earlier this year they started working on Rose Red, about Snow’s sister. In that revisionist take, Snow White’s estranged sister, Rose Red, must undertake a dangerous quest with Grumpy and the other dwarves after Snow takes a bite of a poisoned apple, to find a way to break the curse and bring Snow White back to life. There’s the possibility therefore that Disney may be thinking of this as a franchise, with live-action films telling both tale.