What you may need to know:
1. It’s a live action fantasy inspired by the Cinderella fairy tale. See what they got out of there? You know the story but there are a few twists as you can see.
2. The trailer shows Cinders meeting The Prince before the grand ball and The Fairy Godmother has a much larger role disguised as an old beggar.
3. Lots of Hollywood’s great and good came together to make it happen including Cate Blanchett and Helena Bonham Carter who is a long way from her astounding turn as Marla Singer.
4. Lily James has not lost that vacuous look she constantly wears for Downtown Abbey.
5. The film was originally to be directed by Mark Romanek but he left due to “creative differences“. He was developing a version that was darker than Disney wanted and was promptly replaced by Kenneth Branagh. A more menacing tale would have been interesting.
6. The Cinderella story has been around for a long time. See Egypt’s Rhodopis.
7. The version that we associate most with is Charles Perrault’s from his imaginatively named Tales And Stories From The Past With Morals in 1697.
8. Broadsheet Prognosis: Our balls are always crowded and sweaty affairs.
Release Date: March 27, 2015
(Delboy is looking for his slippers. Dylan is Tom Dillon, Broadsheet writer who becomes a pumpkin farmer every October)
And the secret is that you must be kind for there is kindness in magic and in goodness and the goodness in all of your little finger is the greatest kindness of all so have courage Ella and my goodness remember, it’s a kind of magic.
Run out of ideas for crappy sequels to all of your amazing Disney cartoons? Remake em all in live action!
Cinderella’s Red Weddinh