In a movie landscape of formulaic sequels, uninspired remakes, endless superhero flicks, and a total lack of original ips... why is more diversity the first factor you jump to?
Instead of taking a new story, and making a new movie with something we haven't seen before 50 times (and here they can take some story from an actually diverse world), they take an old story (eg snow white), that we've seen many times, in many forms (books, cartoons, movies, comics,...), and replace the actress who should have "skin white as snow" (literal quote from the book) with someone more "diverse".
Africa and asia are huge places, with many different people and cultures and that creates many tales, stories and legends... And hollywood? Let's take a 1960s cartoon (eg 101. dalmatians), make Anita black, and then make a movie out of that.. or (previously mentioned) snow white, make her columbian, and make (another) movie out of that. Are they really so incompetent, that they cannot create anything new? Or are the beancounters stopping any risks, so they feed us 200+ year old fairytales, that we've seen before?
> Or are the beancounters stopping any risks, so they feed us 200+ year old fairytales, that we've seen before?
I mean, yes, I think this should be pretty obviously the case, given all the remakes and reboots we've seen in the past decade or two. This has nothing to do with some diversity conspiracy, though.
To be fair, though, I do think there is at least some creativity in animated movies recently (that don't specifically target a white audience), for example (IMO fantastic) movies like Coco and Soul.
Snow white has "skin as white as snow, lips as red as blood and hair as black as ebony". Even if she stays white, if the actress was blonde, that would bother me... she's not Snow White anymore.
I know this page is very american-centric, but snow white was one of the stories most of us here in europe read (or listened to our parents read) as kids, and we all remember the story, and the image of Snow White, we've all built in our heads.