Disney's live-action 'Snow White' debuts after weathering dust-ups around politics, race and its star's comments about the 1937 original.

They took issue with Zegler saying that “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” was a movie that scared her as a child. She also said this new reimagining of Snow White would veer away from the fairy tale character counting on a prince to save the day.

Rarely does one hear producers discuss their plans to remake “Casablanca” or “Lawrence of Arabia.” It took Disney many years of creating live-action remakes of its classic animated features before it worked up the nerve to take another whack at its first,