Snow White Inspires Legal Drama
While this sounds like a hoax, the Hollywood Reporter insists that Fox is serious in adapting the premise of Snow White to a legal drama. Georgia and the Seven Associates will feature a lawyer exiled from the big firm headed by her mother so she opens up a storefront operation with seven oddball counselors. The series was created by producers Chris Brancato and Bert Salke (When in Rome), feature writers David Weissman and David Diamond and director Ken Kwapis.
"It is L.A. Law vs. the little engine that could," Brancato told the trade.
THR notes the lawyers will somewhat resemble their inspiration, “For instance, Doc is an ambulance chaser who carries neck braces in his trunk, and Sleepy is a bike messenger who parties at night and naps in the office.”
The producers say they were inspired by seeing the seven dwarves holding up the Disney building across the studio lot.
"We thought while we’re sitting here, we may as well use some of Walt’s creative ideas," Brancato added, confirming Disney is comfortable with the notion.
It's good that Disney is "comfortable" with the concept, despite the fact that the characters are public domain, just the animator's depictions of them are trademarked.
The sadly underappreciated Amanda Bynes was just in Sydney White, a film that adapted the Snow White story to a frathouse. The "Poison Apple" was a Mac with a virus, and so on. So I guess Disney was "okay" with that one too.I hope Disney sues them days before it's about to get released. Karma, don'tchya know.I was just in a conversation about the seven dwarves building just the other day, tho I can't recall if it was here or on the 'Rama. The guy who had to sign off on it saw clearly that for the design to work, some of the dwarves would have be made the wrong height, something The Mouse is very careful about not doing. So he had the choice of getting fired because he approved that, or getting fired because he sent it back. He got fired for approving it.