10 Upcoming Movies That Are Causing Huge Controversy

We live in an era where it feels like almost every sufficiently huge movie ends up embroiled in a controversy of some kind, some of which quickly fizzle out and are forgotten, while others come to dominate the discourse forever.

And these 10 upcoming movies have certainly got some serious uphill struggles to deal with PR-wise given the online furores they've already had to deal with.

Often even before a single frame of film was shot, these movies were harangued by online observers who became very opinionated, for better or worse, about casting decisions and undeniably questionable filmmaking decisions.

Yet only time will tell if the online controversy translates to trouble in the wider mainstream moviegoing sphere. After all, social media isn't 1:1 with real life, and the many who aren't terminally online may simply not be interested in issues which, in the Twitter bubble, seem like they might sink their respective movies entirely.

Those involved with these films are clearly hoping that things cool down in the coming months, yet as they say, the Internet isn't written in pencil - it's written in ink...

Disney's next live-action remake of one of their animated classics is Snow White, which immediately sparked division online when Rachel Zegler, a Latina actress, was cast in the lead role.

Some purists complained that Zegler's casting fundamentally changed a character who is typically described as having skin "as white as snow," while others praised her casting as a step forward for diversity.

That was just the tip of the iceberg, though: Zegler's feet were held to the fire when she openly criticised aspects of the 1937 original animation while discussing how the remake would update the story, prompting many of the usual suspects to decry the new Snow White as "too woke."

And then there's the matter of the dwarfs, who are conspicuously not name-dropped in the title of the remake.

Peter Dinklage vocally criticised Disney for remaking a "backwards story" in regard to the animation's depiction of dwarfs as cave-dwellers, to which the studio replied that the film would be offering a revised approach to the seven dwarfs in collaboration with the dwarfism community.

More recently, images from the set appeared to show the dwarfs reimagined, with only one of the seven actors actually being a dwarf - a decision which many prominent members of the dwarfism community criticised as taking acting opportunities away from dwarf actors.

Needless to say, the filmmakers certainly have a tough fight on their hands battling a tidal wave of controversy here, enough that even audiences interested in the movie might feel exhausted by the discourse long before it releases.