{"id":591189,"date":"2026-05-18T20:18:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T20:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/591189\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T20:18:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T20:18:11","slug":"disney-developing-an-ella-enchanted-tv-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/591189\/","title":{"rendered":"Disney+ Developing An &#8220;Ella Enchanted&#8221; TV Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/disney-developing-an-ella-enchanted-tv-series.jpg\" data-caption=\"Miramax\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/disney-developing-an-ella-enchanted-tv-series.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"disney-developing-an-ella-enchanted-tv-series\"\/><\/a>Miramax<\/p>\n<p>Disney+ has reportedly begun development of a TV series adaptation fo the 2004 Anne Hathaway-led fairytale film \u201cElla Enchanted\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Hathaway is executive producing the potential series that will be written by Ilana Wolpert (\u201cAnyone But You\u201d), with Beth Schwartz (\u201cDead Boy Detectives\u201d) as showrunner.<\/p>\n<p>The original film follows 16-year-old Ella of Frell \u2013 cursed at birth to obey every command \u2013 who is sent to boarding school after her mother\u2019s untimely death.<\/p>\n<p>She begins to uncover the truth about her curse, builds an unlikely found family, and deals with an inconvenient crush on the prince of her kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>The series keeps the basic premise of the movie and the original Gail Carson Levine book, but will shift it away from its \u201cCinderella\u201d-style trappings for more of a coming-of-age story in a boarding school setting (a reframing akin to \u201cWednesday\u201d).<\/p>\n<p>Miramax Television and Paramount Television Studios are co-producing the series, while Johnathan Rice and Adam Shulman will also executive produce.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/05\/ella-enchanted-tv-series-anne-hathaway-disney-plus-miramax-1236905606\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Deadline<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Previous article<a href=\"https:\/\/www.darkhorizons.com\/chew-tv-series-is-in-development\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cChew\u201d TV Series Is In Development<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Miramax Disney+ has reportedly begun development of a TV series adaptation fo the 2004 Anne Hathaway-led fairytale film&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":591190,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[94966,96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-591189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-bigslider","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=591189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/591190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}