You can thank Peter Dinklage for the CGI dwarves

Did he lead the charge in the "don't call them woke" people deciding that it was bigoted to cast little people to play dwarves and other such short characters?

It is odd, considering that other than straight white people (casting gay people as straight or non white people to play someone white, even a historical character, should be celebrated, of course), they usually want people to be the thing they are playing.

Very selfish given he made his money from playing a horny dwarf. It's not like people of his stature are about to be cast as Rambo type characters.

CGI dwarves are better than the bizarre "magical creatures" they showed before.

The dwarf acting community must be pissed at him. I wonder what he will say about this new retooling.

Actors need to learn to keep their fucking mouths shut when they are not reading lines written by someone else.

Talk about kicking out the ladder underneath you after climbing to the top. The Dwarf Acting Community now hates his guts.

I don’t know how I feel about the CGI dwarves. It’s the weakest aspect of the trailer. It’s entirely possible that the CGI is unfinished and it will look much better in the final movie. I hope so. If not, then they should’ve gone with 80’s - 00’s style prosthetics.

Before CGI, the options for putting smaller creatures on screen were either find a little person and use prosthetics or some camera/perspective trickery. That, or stop motion I suppose.

I'm not sure what was denigrating or stereotypical about that. Should they have used average sized people and used special effects to make them seem smaller?

If a character was unusually tall, like the xenomorph in Alien, they'd find someone unusually tall for the part. That doesn't seem any different to me.

Everyone in that business is so terrified of being accused of something and having their career damaged/ended, I doubt anyone speaks out.