On New Year’s Eve Disney released a new international trailer for its upcoming live-action reboot of their animated classic Cinderella.
Fans of the 1950 Oscar-nominated Disney production will feel right at home here. The retelling of the much-loved tale centers around Ella (Lily James from TV’s Downton Abbey), whose widowed father remarries the evil Lady Tremain (Cate Blanchett, The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies). Rather than being accepted into her new family, Ella is forced by her stepmother to work as maid and is shunned by her stepsisters. Ella’s one desire, to go to the royal ball, is magically facilitated by her Fairy Godmother, portrayed by Helena Bonham-Carter (Sweeney Todd).
Kenneth Branagh (Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit) directs from a script by Chris Weitz (The Golden Compass).
Disney has had great box-office success in the live action arena in recent years, what with this year’s Maleficent and 2010’s Alice in Wonderland. The studio’s recent release of the live-action version of Stephen Sondheim’s Into The Woods will certainly only add to that and increase anticipation for Cinderella, which is scheduled for a March 2015 release in the US.
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