‘Narnia’ Scribe Ann Peacock To Write Cinderella Script For Universal
Now that the story of Snow White has been picked clean bythreedifferentmovieprojects, Hollywood’s got its sights on another fairy tale: Cinderella. Last year, Disneyboughta pitch for a live-action retelling, to be directed byMark Romanekfrom a script byAline 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, withBruno Aveillanset 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-starringHansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters, Bryan Singer’sJack the Giant Killer, andfivedifferentPeter Panprojects in various states of development. On the small screen, both ABC’sOnce Upon a Timeand NBC’sGrimmarepremieringthis 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 showOnce Upon a Time. I’d be happy to see a film version of the Jonathan Carroll novelSleeping in Flame, however, which uses a version of Rumplestiltskin.)
