'Snow White' Box Office Bomb Just Killed Another Disney Remake
The world of live-action Disney movies is a mixed bag. For every badass Maleficent, there's well, something like the new Snow White remake. Plagued by various controversies and seemingly unable to find its core demographic—families looking for a good time at the cinema—the new Snow White not only had a largely terrible reaction from critics, but has become a box office failure, too.
Now, it seems that the poisoned apple of Snow White could be the direct cause of the delay in the development of a live-action version of Disney's Tangled. The planned Tangled remake is now "on hold," according to a report from Variety.
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Variety notes that pausing the development of Tangled is almost certainly not a coincidence relative to the failure of Snow White. The new Tangled, which would have adapted Disney's 2010 adaptation of the 1812 Brothers Grimm tale Rapunzel, was already in development before this reported pause occurred; Michael Gracey was attached to direct, while Jennifer Kaytin Robinson was adapting the screenplay from the various source material. No casting had been announced.
As of this writing, it's not clear if this version of Tangled has been canceled altogether or could return in the future. But clearly, when it comes to new versions of Disney princesses on the big screen, the magic kingdom is rethinking its strategy.
Snow White is in theaters now.
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