‘Narnia’ Scribe Ann Peacock To Write Cinderella Script For Universal
By Angie Han/Sept. 9, 2011 10:30 am EST
Now that the story of Snow White has been picked clean by three different movie projects, Hollywood’s got its sights on another fairy tale: Cinderella. Last year, Disney bought a pitch for a live-action retelling, to be directed by Mark Romanek from a script by Aline Brosh McKenna (The Devil Wears Prada).
Now we’re getting news about a competing project from Universal, one of the players in the great Snow White movie race of 2011. Ann Peacock (The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe) has been tapped to write a screenplay based on the classic story, with Bruno Aveillan set to helm. Read more after the jump. Though the untitled project has been in development for a while, Universal’s now picking up the pace in order to compete with all the other fairy tale reimaginings coming out. In addition to the various Snow White-based movies, there’s also the Jeremy Renner-starring Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters, Bryan Singer’s Jack the Giant Killer, and five different Peter Pan projects in various states of development. On the small screen, both ABC’s Once Upon a Time and NBC’s Grimm are premiering this fall. It’s not hard to understand why studios are so gaga for these stories — they’re familiar to a wide audience, but free to use. It’s like all the best parts of adapting a popular comic book property or a boardgame, without any of the pesky issues regarding film rights and such.
Discuss: Help Hollywood out and think of some other fairy tale properties that have yet to get a live-action reimagining. Rumpelstiltskin? The Princess and the Pea? (Note from Russ: Rumplestiltskin is a part of the TV show Once Upon a Time. I’d be happy to see a film version of the Jonathan Carroll novel Sleeping in Flame, however, which uses a version of Rumplestiltskin.)
‘Narnia’ Scribe Ann Peacock To Write Cinderella Script For Universal
By Angie Han/Sept. 9, 2011 10:30 am EST
Now that the story of Snow White has been picked clean by three different movie projects, Hollywood’s got its sights on another fairy tale: Cinderella. Last year, Disney bought a pitch for a live-action retelling, to be directed by Mark Romanek from a script by Aline Brosh McKenna (The Devil Wears Prada).
Now we’re getting news about a competing project from Universal, one of the players in the great Snow White movie race of 2011. Ann Peacock (The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe) has been tapped to write a screenplay based on the classic story, with Bruno Aveillan set to helm. Read more after the jump. Though the untitled project has been in development for a while, Universal’s now picking up the pace in order to compete with all the other fairy tale reimaginings coming out. In addition to the various Snow White-based movies, there’s also the Jeremy Renner-starring Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters, Bryan Singer’s Jack the Giant Killer, and five different Peter Pan projects in various states of development. On the small screen, both ABC’s Once Upon a Time and NBC’s Grimm are premiering this fall. It’s not hard to understand why studios are so gaga for these stories — they’re familiar to a wide audience, but free to use. It’s like all the best parts of adapting a popular comic book property or a boardgame, without any of the pesky issues regarding film rights and such.
Discuss: Help Hollywood out and think of some other fairy tale properties that have yet to get a live-action reimagining. Rumpelstiltskin? The Princess and the Pea? (Note from Russ: Rumplestiltskin is a part of the TV show Once Upon a Time. I’d be happy to see a film version of the Jonathan Carroll novel Sleeping in Flame, however, which uses a version of Rumplestiltskin.)
Now we’re getting news about a competing project from Universal, one of the players in the great Snow White movie race of 2011. Ann Peacock (The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe) has been tapped to write a screenplay based on the classic story, with Bruno Aveillan set to helm. Read more after the jump.
Though the untitled project has been in development for a while, Universal’s now picking up the pace in order to compete with all the other fairy tale reimaginings coming out. In addition to the various Snow White-based movies, there’s also the Jeremy Renner-starring Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters, Bryan Singer’s Jack the Giant Killer, and five different Peter Pan projects in various states of development. On the small screen, both ABC’s Once Upon a Time and NBC’s Grimm are premiering this fall. It’s not hard to understand why studios are so gaga for these stories — they’re familiar to a wide audience, but free to use. It’s like all the best parts of adapting a popular comic book property or a boardgame, without any of the pesky issues regarding film rights and such.
Discuss: Help Hollywood out and think of some other fairy tale properties that have yet to get a live-action reimagining. Rumpelstiltskin? The Princess and the Pea?
(Note from Russ: Rumplestiltskin is a part of the TV show Once Upon a Time. I’d be happy to see a film version of the Jonathan Carroll novel Sleeping in Flame, however, which uses a version of Rumplestiltskin.)
