A Cinderella series?

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I was going to put this in the anime board, because I had in mind of the idea being a anime series, but it is really a general idea that should open to everyone. Tell me your opinions?

Why don't they make a series based on the story of Cinderella, a series either 25 or 50 episodes that tell the story of Cinderella?

I thought it was a great story, that could streach into a series, of course you have to add stuff for it to streach into a series and into add some freshness to it.

Some possible twists:

1) The country or kingdom is at war with another country or kingdom

2) Ella and her father come from that country or kingdom that is at war with as mention in number 1. Which would also justify to the public, Ella's stepmother treating Ella like a second class citizen. And it would add more importance to Ella and the Prince hooking up. Not only will be a happy ending for Ella, but a happy ending for the world, as it would be a major step in ending a war.

3) Time and setting is an alternative universe in terms of structure of the world and laws, like Code Geass for example. You have monarcys and political systems of the distant past, but techonlogy of the present and future.

4) Some scendary villains, like the General of the country or kingdom that everyone lives in. I thought one other twist would be the General and Ella's stepmother plotted together to kill Ella's father.

5) Ella's step mother revealed to be some sort of demon, that is the final villain.

I think this would be a great series. Of course, this Cinderella parental description is adviced. It is something Sunrise might make.
 
You have interesting ideas here for a series and I think that they're really cool, but I don't think that they'll make a Cinderella series like this. They wouldn't want to drift away from the Disney version of Cinderella since most girls would recognize that Cinderella more than anything else. I doubt that Disney would want to make a series like this since it doesn't sound exactly like an image Disney would go with for one of their Disney princesses. Besides that, I think Disney tried to go with a series for Cinderella, but then it became the first sequel, which would explain why it had different segments instead of a whole story.
 
What are you talking about? Cinderella is public domain, Disney doesn't own the story. They just may take advantage of the public domain right to use that story more than others, but still not exclusive to them. The differences between there would be series and my idea, is their series took place after Cinderella and the Prince got married and lived happily after, which is very anti climatic. Cinderella now as a happy life, so what now? My series is Cinderella or Ella or whatever you want to name the main protagonist, story of how she overcame her tough situation with her stepmother oppressing her to marrying the Prince. Once that happens the series is just about over, if not over.

Anyone I am not really pitching a series or asking for someone to make a series. Just an idea that I thought share. Of all fairy tales, is one such fairy tale that could be streached out to a series, and has a lot of proetental to a fun exciting series. Anyone agree with or disagree with that?

Here is another twist to add:

Ella's more mean step sister hates Ella and everyone from that country Ella comes from, because her father was killed by people from Ella's home land.
 
you've got some pretty good ideas for a show. i thought the way they handeled the story in the movie eveafter was pretty interesting too-the way they grounded it in reality and ditched the whole fairy godmother concept.

for a long while i've had the idea that a new pinocchio series could be interesting. the actual carlo collodi novel is really extensive and episodic. pinocchio got into all kinds of adventures and traveled to a lot of places on his journey to becoming a real boy. you've got tons of great characters to use and the payoff to the end of the series could be very impactful with all the lessons he learns as he matures and finally realizes his dream of becoming 'real'. if you got the right team on board for it i think it could be a great new series.

i know about most of the adaptations in tv and film and i think there was a European animated series years ago. it might have been edited together into one movie too if it's the one i'm thinking of.(which was great btw.)

*looked it up and there actually was an anime series in the 70's too.
 
Well you know only some fairy tales has a story that be strech into a series. Pinochoo that could do that as well, (though is Pinocchio a fairy tale? I really don't know).

You can't make a series around the story of Goldilocks and The Three Bears, The Three Little Pigs, Little Red Riding Hood, etc. because all of that took place over a course of day. Unless you want to make it like 24. LOL

The story of Cinderella has a lot of stuff that happened over time, not to mention in the classic fairy tale version, there were 3 Balls that took place over 3 nights.

My idea does ground it a bit in reality, but adds stuff out of reality. It has more three dimentional characters (except for stepmother, I made her truely evil. But every story needs one of those characters), there is good and bad to everybody. So the emotional is more grounded, more realistic like Ever After, but adding some high tech weapons like those robot vehicles seen in shows like Eureka 7, Code Geass, Mobile Gundom 00.

I thought earlier of a funny idea. A sub plot, the step sister that hates Ella's race of people that I mentioned earlier, she meets and falls for this guy that is from Ella's homeland, only she doesn't know it. He contemplates weather or not to tell her the truth about him, he thinks about the consiquences in his head, and is a funny scene of her beating him up and killing him in a comical way.
 
yeah pinocchio is really not a fairy tale, actually a novel. but it does have a lot of the fairy tale elements.

i didn't know about the original parts of the story with the three balls over three nights though. pretty interesting stuff.
 
Thanks, like I said Cinderella that has lots of protental, there are lots of stuff that we haven't explored in the modern time of that story..

Well if they ever did a series like my idea, Sunrise would be a very likely company to do it.
 
Then which one of them did she go to?

I don't think anyone wants to follow the original Grimm version to the letter. The ugly stepsisters tried to fit into the squirrel fur slipper by slashing their feet in half.

Yes, I said "squirrel fur." That's another thing that'll never be shown. "Glass" was a mistranslation.
 
No offense meant, Zoombie, but I don't think that anyone would want to see Cinderella as an ongoing series. Cinderella is first and foremost, a girl's fantasy. All that political stuff is more or less a distraction, and kids don't care about polotics. Stories like Peter Pan, The Wizard of Oz and Narnia could work as series because each of them were a series of books that could be told in a number of stories. Cinderella, by contrast, is a glorious one-shot. No one would want to see Cindy being put through hell by her strpmother and stepsisters for several weeks before she eventually goes to the ball.
 
Actually they did make a Cinderella anime. I used to watch it while I was young.

It was pretty much her meeting the prince who was dressed as a commoner, and they went on small adventures, and the series finale pretty much goes the same way the Disney movie goes.
It was 26 episodes in length.
Here's it's opening.
 
Okay, sounds interesting.

In responce to Blackstar's comment wants to watch week after week Cinderella go through hell. There are lots of shows in which life is hard for the protagonist and you have to wait for the end for things to work out.

I don't know about other people, but I have patient to wait, and only makes the payoff more worth while. Example when Heather finally got what she deserved and got her head shaved on Total Drama Island.
 
While the story is public domain, I was thinking of how they couldn't really have an animated character, which is key here, of Cinderella without talking to Disney about it. Like I was trying to say, most girls do recognize Disney's image of Cinderella and having a version like this probably wouldn't fly so well with either the kids or the parents. As for how the story always ends, I thought that was the point of the whole story. That after going through all her troubles, Cinderella finds love. I really don't need to see much beyond that.

I'm also not sure how much you could do with the series after the happy ever after. Maybe some more background on Cinderella's past and the prince too, but even that might be too much. Like I said, the whole point of the story is Cinderella finding the prince. Everything after that isn't so important to me.



While I do understand your point here and I respect it, I think that you're comparing two different things. With Heather, she did some really mean things on TDI, but I'm not sure if it's up there with child abuse. The Disney movie doesn't show the abuse like other movies on Cinderella does, but it can be pretty intense. I remember how I would watch the live-action movie Ever After and there would be times where I could barely watch how horribly Cinderella was treated in that movie and how she suffered physically and emotionally. I would change the channel and wait for a different scene to come up. I'm not sure how many children would want to see a well-known animated character being abused like that for weeks on end, even with the knowledge that she would get the prince at the end.
 
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