"Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" is getting a live-action remake, but Emmy-winning actor Peter Dinklage isn't sure it should.
Disney announced that "West Side Story" actress Rachel Ziegler would star as a princess in a remake of the 1937 animated film. Gal Gadot will play the Evil Queen. Dinklage feels that if the story hasn't been updated it shouldn't be made at all.
The "Game of Thrones" star appeared on Marc Maron's "WTF" podcast on Monday and raised some questions about re-watching the film at this time, the 85-year-old.
"I was a little surprised when they were so proud to cast a Latina actress as Snow White. You're still telling the story of 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.'" Take a step back and see what you are doing there. It doesn't make any sense to me," he told Maron. "You're kind of progressive and you're still making a back story about the Seven Dwarfs living in a cave, what the f--- are you doing man Are? Have I done nothing to further this cause from my soapbox? I guess I'm not loud enough."
Dinklage adds that while the original "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs", Disney's first full-length animated feature, still to be told, it needs to be updated for today's standards.
"If you tell the story of 'Snow White' with the most f---ed up, progressive spin? Let's do it. All in," he told Maron.
Disney responded to the actor's comments in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter, saying that the film intends to take "a different approach with these seven characters to avoid reinforcing stereotypes from the original animated film."
The company said they are "consulting with members of the Dwarf community" during the film's "long development period".