At this juncture, we are all experts on Snow White‘s two-year-long death march to theaters. March 2025 marked the anti-climactic finale of a production that historians and film buffs will dissect for years to come. The alarming part no one seems to mention is that it was completely avoidable. 38 years before Snow White, Columbia Pictures suffered its own slow-motion PR crisis. That film was called Ishtar. You’ve probably forgotten it existed, and judging by Disney’s clumsy handling of Snow White, so has every working executive in Hollywood.