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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/

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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