Snow White’s Sister Rose Red Is Getting Her Disney Live-Action Fairy Tale Movie
Disney’s live-action fairy tales fall into a couple of different categories. There are the remakes, likeCinderellaand the upcomingBeauty and the Beast, which might make a few changes to the story but mostly take their cues from the Disney animated classics that came before them. And then there are the reimaginings, likeMaleficent, which put an entirely different spin on the familiar story by showing it through the eyes of an entirely different character.
The studio’s latest new fairy tale falls into the latter category, except that it strays even further than usual from the source material — it centers on a character who didn’t even exist in the original story. Disney has picked upRose Red, which retcons an estranged sister into the classicSnow White and the Seven Dwarfsstory.
The Hollywood Reporter writes that Disney has picked upJustin Merz’s scriptRose Red, and setEvan Daughertyto rewrite. Merz’sRose Redoriginally had nothing to do with Snow White, but Daugherty pitched a revision that would turn it into aSnow White"companion piece." The new movie reworks the familiar fairy tale so that after Snow White bites the poison apple, thus falling into a death-like slumber, Rose Red joins forces with the Seven Dwarfs on a dangerous journey to break the curse and bring her sister back to life.Tripp Vinsonwill produce.
While there is a Grimm fairy tale about two sisters named Snow White and Rose Red, it’s completely unrelated to the more famous Snow White story that Disney’s 1937 film was based on; the Snow Whites are two separate people. Disney isn’t the first to combine the characters, though — the Vertigo Comics seriesFablesblended them into a single character with a twin sister named Rose Red. The Grimms' Snow White and Rose Red tale involves a cranky dwarf and a bear who’s really a prince in disguise, so don’t be surprised if those elements surface in theRose Redmovie.
Daugherty already has experience writing Snow White movies that aren’t really about Snow White, as he previously scriptedSnow White and the Huntsman. (The sequelThe Huntsman: Winter’s War, which Daugherty did not write, goes a step further and ditches Snow White altogether.) His other credits includeDivergent,Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and the upcomingTomb Raiderreboot. Vinson, meanwhile, seems to have a thing for minor characters in fairy tales. BesidesRose Red, he’s also working on theAladdinprequelGenies, and aPrince Charmingspinoff.
