Disney hired a social media guru to vet any other online posts before the movie release.
Just after Trump's election win in November, Zegler posted an anti-Trump screed to her Instagram story that said, "I find myself speechless in the midst of this," adding, "May Trump supporters and Trump voters and Trump himself never know peace."
She characterized Trump's win as "another four years of hatred, leaning us towards a world I do not want to live in. Leaning us towards a world that will be hard to raise my daughter in." The post was deleted afterward, but according to Variety, Disney had enough with the actor's messaging on her platform and decided to pay a social media guru to vet any posts she made before the release of Snow White on March 21.
Now, the film has had a dismal opening weekend, only bringing in $87 million worldwide. An executive at a rival movie studio told the outlet, “You can’t say that a live-action remake of the most iconic film in the vault that cost [$270] million and has been reshot multiple times opening to $50 million is OK. The math does not work. That movie should be a billion-dollar movie," the executive said of its domestic numbers, which ended up at $43 million on its opening weekend.
The movie has been blasted by conservatives online, who felt that Zegler's past comments about the now-released film were too woke. Zegler previously said that she felt as if the original Snow White movie, the first animated feature film from Disney, was "extremely dated" on the “ideas of women being in roles of power and what a woman is fit for in the world.”
The live-action remake has scored a 42 percent critic score and a 74 percent audience score on Rotten Tomatoes. Although the audience score was higher, a live-action remake of Aladdin that was released in 2019 had a 94 percent for its audience score.
Powered by The Post Millennial CMS™ Comments
Join and support independent free thinkers!
We’re independent and can’t be cancelled. The establishment media is increasingly dedicated to divisive cancel culture, corporate wokeism, and political correctness, all while covering up corruption from the corridors of power. The need for fact-based journalism and thoughtful analysis has never been greater. When you support The Post Millennial, you support freedom of the press at a time when it's under direct attack. Join the ranks of independent, free thinkers by supporting us today for as little as $1.
Remind me next month
To find out what personal data we collect and how we use it, please visit our Privacy Policy
Comments
3 days ago | Comment by: Bob
Bye bye, Rachel.