In 1937, Walt Disney released Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs to great fanfare as the first feature-length animated film, creating a genre of big-screen fairytale adventures and netting more than $1 billion in follow-up sales and merchandise.

Now that the seemingly inevitable 21st-century live-action remake is due for cinema release, Disney’s publicity machine has been a little more coy, however.

This year’s Snow White, starring Rachel Zegler and Gal Gadot, features no dwarfs in the title, and has faced criticism over their depiction. It will not, apparently, focus on a handsome prince pursuing the heroine. And the choice of a Latina actress portraying Snow White, and an Israeli actress as the Evil Queen, has prompted outrage even before the March 21 UK release