The first published version of “Snow White” fell in 1812, as the author of Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm. The Grimm brothers rewritten history in 1854, however, and this is the version that most audiences know. The story focuses on a vain queen of an evil queen with a magic mirror which gives it daily affirmations. When she asks if she is the most beautiful (at a time when having pale skin was a sign of beauty), the mirror would answer that it was. The queen’s nasty romance is then interrupted by the birth of a young girl named Snow White for her fairness. To keep her unofficial title of the most beautiful in the country, the queen aims to have Snow White murdered. His plans involved servants, spells and a house populated by seven minors.

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“Snow White” has been adapted several times since then. There are poems, ballets, operas, comics, video games and many film versions of the fairy tale. The most famous cinematic adaptation, of course, is the most lively published by Disney in 1937. Indeed, “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” was the first animated feature film that Disney producedInaugurating one of the most powerful animation studios in the world.

But, Golly, there are a lot of “Snow White” films. There was a vintage action film entitled “Snow White and the Huntsman” released in 2012, which was the same year as the fanciful story “Mirror Mirror” was released. There was also “Sydney White” in 2007, a modern reimagination With Amanda Bynes. In fact, a decade before, there was even a vision centered on the horror of history made in the form of “Snow White: A Tale of Terror” of 1997 (with Sigourney Weaver as the nasty queen). All this is at the top of the multiple “snow white” films released in the 1900s and 1910s. It is a reliable source of inspiration.

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It seems that in 1969, Universal aimed to make its own updated version of “Snow White”, which takes place in the present in an apartment in the average city. Much more surprising, a vintage article from The New York Times reveals that a 24 -year -old Steven Spielberg was approached to direct him.

It should be noted that in 1969, Steven Spielberg, 23, had only made a few short films and a single amateur element entitled “Firelight”, which he pulled when he was only 17 years old. In 1969, the best known of Spielberg would have been “Amblin ‘”, the short film which would end up giving its production company its name. He also directed an episode of the “Night Gallery” of the time, but was still two years before the production of “Duel” of 1971, his first professional feature film. (Three years later, he had left with “The Sugarland Express”))

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However, it seems that Universal wanted the young Spielberg to run a film “Snow White” based on the strength of “Amblin ‘” alone. According to the article by the former New York Times, “Snow White” of Universal was to be about a modern snow white who “shares his apartment in San Francisco with seven young men while waiting for his prince to appear”. It does not seem terribly different from “Sydney White”. Since it was developed in 1969, however, it would probably have been much more nervous and “swinging”.

The project, however, collapsed in the hands of Universal. Spielberg did not do any serious work on “Snow White” before moving on to better films for Universal. (“Duel”, “The Sugarland Express” and A small shark film Spielberg directed called “Jaws” have all been set up by the studio in the decade that followed.)

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Spielberg, however, was not finished in “Snow White”. Decades later, director Marc Webb launched Rachel Zegler in his film “Snow White” in 2025 after Spielberg gave the actor what she described as “a really brilliant recommendation” during an appearance on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” (With Spielberg having worked with Zegler on his excellent adaptation “West Side Story”). Zegler is a great interpreter and a talented singer, so we imagine that Webb probably didn’t need to convince much to hire him.

It may have taken 56 years, but it seems that Spielberg finally found a way to give its own turn on “Snow White”. Well, came out.