After

[Sotiris]

This sounds like a OUAT spin-off.

Freeform, formerly ABC Family, has put in development Sleeping Beauty-themed hour-long scripted drama After (working title), based on Rhiannon Thomas’ 2015 debut novel A Wicked Thing, from veteran youth programming writer-producer Tom Lynch.

After re-imagines Sleeping Beauty and what happens after happily ever. In it, Princess Aurora wakes up to the kiss of a handsome prince one hundred years after falling asleep to find her family long dead and her kingdom taken from her. She must transform into a warrior to regain it. Lynch is co-writing with Adam Lash and Cori Uchida (Eye Candy), and executive producing with Robin Schwartz for the the Tom Lynch Co. and Brillstein Entertainment Partners.

Source: http://deadline.com/2016/03/freeform-sl ... 201717865/

[bradhig]

No I don't want a Xenia wannabe Aurora. I have an idea for a fanfic in which Aurora and Phillip while dancing in the sky get hurled into space and frozen by temperatures beyond imagination and are found and revived by a NASA mission to Mars 500 years later. I just can't bring myself to write fanfic right now.

[JeanGreyForever]

It's based off the novel A Wicked Thing, where Aurora wakes up and finds herself betrothed to the prince who kissed her awake, who is basically controlled by his mother, a wicked and scheming queen. I think there was a king as well although I can't remember. Two other characters serve as love interests but I don't think she ended up with any of the two. Honestly, I'm not expecting much from it. No connection to the Disney movie or OUAT btw.

[Disney's Divinity]

It doesn't really sound interesting. That said, I might see the first episode just to check it out. SB adaptations rarely ever explore the tale as it really was (as far as her being asleep for a century and then the whole cannibal mother-in-law thing), so I guess that's the only thing that they could do with this?

[unprincess]

Im getting reeeally tired of the princess/female heroine must become a warrior trope. Rolled my eyes when Dorothy showed up in OUAT all armed.

[Tangled]

I actually read the book this is based on. I randomly stumbled upon it at my local library. However, despite reading it a year ago, I only remember the plot about Aurora sneaking away from the castle at night and accidentally (?) joining her peasant love interest's rebellion against the royal family. I also recall liking that Aurora wasn't a stereotypical strong, warrior heroine. She was actually portrayed as a scared, passive girl who was ripped out of her time and forced into another. Overall, it was fine for what it was, but pretty forgettable in a sea of YA fairy tale adaptations and Disney remakes.

That "she must transform into a warrior to regain it" snippet from the description is worrying, though. That doesn't fit the book I read at all.

[bradhig]

Why did they change ABC family to freeform? That's stupid