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Alright folks, Marcus Ellery here with your Snow White Biography Flash, and holy smokes, has our fairest-of-them-all been having a week.

So Disney's live-action Snow White opened back in March and... yikes. The thing was a complete disaster, pulling in just 205 million worldwide against a 270 million budget. When you factor in marketing, we're talking 370 million in costs. That's not just a flop, that's a crater. According to multiple industry reports, Disney actually shelved their planned live-action Tangled remake because they were so rattled by Snow White's performance. The studio literally went into crisis mode over how badly this thing bombed.

But here's where it gets interesting from a biographical standpoint. The character herself has been getting a massive reexamination. Rachel Zegler revealed in interviews that they changed Snow White's origin story entirely. In this version, she survived a snowstorm as a baby, and that's why she's called Snow White, not the whole "skin as white as snow" thing from the Brothers Grimm. It's Disney trying to modernize the character, make her more about resilience than appearance.

The backlash has been fascinating to watch. Zegler's been dealing with online harassment since 2021 when she was cast, and it only intensified when she called the original prince character a stalker. She told Variety recently that it made her sad how her comments were taken out of context, especially since she believes women can have both love and careers. The love story's still in the film, by the way, people just freaked out prematurely.

Meanwhile, there's been viral speculation about Disneyland potentially removing villain characters from the parks after a TikTok video showed the Evil Queen performer, though that seems like overblown internet panic more than actual policy.

The bigger picture here? Snow White's biographical significance is shifting. She went from Disney's first princess, their foundational character, to a cautionary tale about what happens when you try to update a nearly century-old icon for modern audiences. Whether that's fair or not, that's her legacy now.

Thanks for listening, folks. Subscribe to never miss an update on Snow White, and search Biography Flash for more great biographies. I'm Marcus Ellery, and I need coffee.

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