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There are a bunch of interviews of the actors/actresses and the director on youtube if you haven't seen them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tb0C_MQa57Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CoI8-rQ5fY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWYVUNZvvug
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NUtyYsrvao
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__r914wc3tg

Atlantica wrote:Ella here could be wearing any gown (looks quite like Christines 'Think Of Me' costume from the Phantom film)

Oh, yes, they do look similar.

Disney's Divinity wrote:

Atlantica wrote:Ella here could be wearing any gown (looks quite like Christines 'Think Of Me' costume from the Phantom film)

Oh, yes, they do look similar.

Thankfully, that dress is beautiful. As someone else said earlier, this film does look like it has been heavily influenced by france and 1800s french aristocracy which Phantom had a lot of too being set in France.
I think a silver dress could have been mind blowing-ly stunning but Disney do like to link up all their merchandise which means inaccurate blue dresses for all the Cinderellas.

I like that, as the exhibit suggested, Drizella will be the smarter stepsister and Anastasia will be the dumber stepsister. That’s how it was in the movie. Anastasia was a little slow and mostly just followed her mother and sister, which is also part of why I think she was the less mean stepsister. Drizella was sharper.

I thought that maybe Lady Tremaine was wearing green because, as in the original film, she was "jealous of Cinderella's charm and beauty", so she's green with envy. So if the exhibit is right when they say that is why she wears so much green, it makes sense. But I still wish she was wearing the original film's colors instead.

It’s amazing that Cinderella’s ballgown has 10,000 crystals on it! But I think Sandy Powell needed to give it more of them/brighter jewels/more light-reflecting jewels, because it hardly looks sparkly. Certainly not as much as in the original film.

Thank you WonderNeverOz! These interviews are fantastic to have! I LOVE what Lily James said about her and the prince being great for each other, and the prince learning from her. And I LOVE that it sounds like, from Cate Blanchette, Cinderella will, quote, “bite back” at the stepmother! I loved everything Kenneth Branagh said.

MeerkatKombat wrote:As someone else said earlier, this film does look like it has been heavily influenced by france and 1800s french aristocracy which Phantom had a lot of too being set in France.

I wish I could tell if this film is supposed to be set in England or "in a far away land". I don't think it's France. I mean, it was shot in London. But then again Disney's live-action Beauty and the Beast is apparently going to be shot in London, and the original animated film specifically said it was in France.

MeerkatKombat wrote:I think a silver dress could have been mind blowing-ly stunning but Disney do like to link up all their merchandise which means inaccurate blue dresses for all the Cinderellas.

LOL! I would love for the dress to be something between silver and blue (which I even wonder if the original animated dress is), but the dress in this movie is, to me, rather mind-blowingly stunning in its blue color, so I like it. I don't know if a silver or bluish silver could do that. I certainly wish it could, but I don't know.

Oooohhh, Lady Tremaine might be a gambler! I cannot wait to see her backstory.

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That is very interesting! I love how they're trying to flesh out the characters more!

New poster. source 1 and source 2.



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Ooooh thanks Willy! And more posters are coming! Can't wait!

But this is exactly an example of how the stepsisters clothing (and Drizella's hair) are so fugly while the stepmother has so much more style! They can be ugly but look better like in the original version! Only the stepsisters ballgowns in this movie look good enough to me.

^ Cate Blanchett looks like a complete knockout in that poster. Brilliant styling job.

Exclusive: Helena Bonham Carter Is Cinderella's Fairy Godmother (poster)
http://www.popsugar.com/entertainment/H ... r-36199599

I absolutely love how Helena looks like as the fairy godmother! She is breathtaking, they most stunning character in this movie visually in my opinion. She looks like Marilyn Monroe or some other big star from the golden age of Hollywood in a movie set in the 1700s. Almost make me wish that Disney had set this movie in the 1700s...

Can't wait to see more character posters, especially of the prince. I also hope that they give Cinderella's mother, the King and the Archduke posters.

(Tried to post an image of the poster, but it was to big to upload...)

Wow! I LOVE that Fairy Godmother poster! It's so dreamily, magnificently beautiful! I still think the stepmother's first green gown is the most visually stunning look in the movie, but the Fairy Godmother's is the next! And like Prince Edward, I almost wish Disney set this in the 1700's...but I'm glad it's the 1800's because that seems like the time the original film took place in (well, a mix of that and the late 1600's-1700's).

I just recently realized the stepsisters are wearing polka dots in one of the scenes. They look terrible.I hate the polka dots design...

I'm glad it wasn't set in the 1700s. There is already a Cinderella movie set during the 18th century and that was The Slipper and the Rose.

I think the stepsisters look great, but I guess to each his own. These stepsisters, whilst pretty, are supposed to look terrible, tacky and overdone. I'm loving the approach taken with them!

Hey, you said it's good to have multiple productions of the same story! Yet there can only be one production set in the 1700's?

I see your point on the stepsisters, but I still think what I think about them, too.

I just realized that there's a tree painted on one of the walls in the set. A great nod to the grimm brother's version of cinderella.

I must say, I'm very impressed on how much research is done with the original material, unlike oz the great and powerful and maleficent.

(photo from the exhibit)

WonderNeverOz, good eye!! That's so cool! I know this is based on the Perrault version, but I'm looking forward to seeing what they bring in from the Grimm version, such as Ella's mother's dying words.

Disney Duster, true I did say that. I don't mind having a Cinderella movie set during the 18th century. In fact, The Glass Slipper was also set in the 1700s. It's just that the animated film, which this is based on, did not take place then. I, personally, wouldn't want to see the characters wearing powdered wigs and such. It would be like setting a live action remake of The Little Mermaid in the 18th century. Plus, I feel like that era has been overdone. I would just like to see something new. But I'm all about hearing everybody's opinions.

Okay, tsom, I get you, good points.


Here's the final new poster, featuring Cinderella and the Prince! It's fantastic! And so romantic!
http://www.popsugar.com/entertainment/C ... n-36210018

I really hope this turns out good, because I'm loving the cast right now. The Prince, the Fairy Godmother, and the Stepmother all look to be great. Cinderella herself is a question mark, but she could be good, who knows. HBC looks gorgeous with blonde hair.

HBC looks so beautiful as the Fairy Godmother. It's nice to see her look so glamorous as a lot of characters she has played lately tend to not look so glam haha. I am also hoping it really turns out great. It seems like it will. They seem to have put their all into it and studied the 1950 film as well as the original fairy tale quite a bit. So I hope it all goes well!

Yay for hoping it goes well you guys!

I agree that the stepmother, stepsisters, prince, and fairy godmother all look like they will be very good in this. I like Cinderella, but I have to admit her acting doesn't seem as great as the others. I really like her though. She's demure, you know? And she shows emotion to me. I think she's good so far except maybe in some times. I hope she will be great. Oh, I forgot, one site mentioned they thought the best person in the trailer was Cinderella's mother, and I think I agree. She was so wonderful.

Yea, Helena Bonham Carter complained that Tim Burton, her own lover, never made her look pretty in his films. lol But here, her ex-lover is making her look quite pretty. I think her eyebrows and make-up are too dark though. Doesn't fit her blonde hair. But aside from that, she's gorgeous.

Here's the cover of the book about the Cinderella fairy tale from it's origins to Walt Disney's animated film to this Kenneth Branagh film. The first image on the bottom is an illustration of Perrault's version by Edmund Dulac. The third image is from this movie with Cinderella on the swing with the prince behind her, and I personally really love it because it means there might be a lot shown in how their love develops! All three images in the bottom are of the famous fairy tale couple in the garden, so they all match and it's perfect! I just wish they used better images from the animated film. The color and clarity looks off in those two.

A new book in the same mold as the "Once upon a dream" book. Cool! I've already pre-ordered it.

The next book in the series should be about "The Little Mermaid" (but hopefully about the fairytale and the Disney version, not about an upcoming live action remake, haha).