Original Snow White Director’s Son Slams Disney’s 2024 Remake, ‘Insulting,’ ‘Disgrace’

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‘Theyโ€™re making up new woke things and Iโ€™m just not into any of that.’

While the release of the new Snow White movie is still a year away, the son of the man who animated and directed the original version has called the new concept a “disgrace” and labeled the “woke things” they’ve made up as “insulting.”

David Handโ€”son of the animator and director of the original version who was known by the same nameโ€”issued a harsh rebuke of the remake, telling the Telegraph on Aug. 18 that Disney’s “woke” version is an insult to his father’s work.

“Itโ€™s a whole different concept, and I just totally disagree with it, and I know my dad and Walt would also very much disagree with it,” Mr. Hand said.

He said he disagrees with the entire concept, calling it a “disgrace,” suggesting that Disney is “trying to do something new with something that was such a great success earlier.”

“Their thoughts are just so radical now,” he said, noting how the Disney of today feels compelled to “change the stories” and “change the thought process of the characters.”

Disney’s live-version remake of the animated film, “The Little Mermaid,” cast a black actress namedย Halle Baileyย in the role of Arielโ€”originally portrayed as a white redhead became another box office flop that cost Disney $1 billion.

“Theyโ€™re making up new woke things, and Iโ€™m just not into any of that. I find it quite frankly a bit insulting,” he added, suggesting that what Disney has done “with some of these classic films” provides evidence that there is “no respect” for what Walt’s Disney and people like his father envisioned and created.

“I think Walt and he would be turning in their graves,” Mr. Hand said.

The original film, “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,” was released in 1937. It was Disney’s first full-length feature film.ย Along with “Pinocchio,” which was released in 1940, “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” is heralded asย Disneyโ€™s greatestย filmย achievement.

Byย Patricia Tolson

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