{"id":591608,"date":"2026-05-19T01:33:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T01:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/591608\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T01:33:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T01:33:15","slug":"anne-hathaway-to-remain-aboard-the-nostalgia-train-with-ella-enchanted-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/591608\/","title":{"rendered":"Anne Hathaway to remain aboard the nostalgia train with Ella Enchanted series"},"content":{"rendered":"

After making a ton of money together in The Devil Wears Prada 2, Anne Hathaway is staying in the Disney business, and we\u2019re not just talking about the potential (read: inevitable) Princess Diaries 3<\/a>. According to Deadline<\/a>, Hathaway will executive produce a Disney+ series based on her 2004 film Ella Enchanted<\/a> (loosely based on Gail Carson Levine\u2019s 1997 book of the same name). The original wasn\u2019t even a Disney movie but a Miramax one, but the series will be co-produced by Miramax Television and Paramount Television Studios for Disney+. (For what it\u2019s worth, Buena Vista International distributed the original film internationally.)<\/p>\n

Ella Enchanted follows the teenage Ella of Frell, who was cursed by a well-meaning but obtuse fairy godmother to always be obedient. The 2004 film, which also starred Minnie Driver, Vivica A. Fox, and Hugh Dancey, is a charming fairy tale pastiche that popped up in the post-Shrek era, winking at tropes like evil stepmothers and sisters, handsome princes, and magical talking objects and animals. The new series seems like it\u2019ll take a page out of the Wednesday playbook, sending Ella to a boarding school (which was not a feature of the original film) after the death of her mother. Ilana Wolpert is set to write and Beth Schwartz set to showrun. As of now, it doesn\u2019t sound like Hathaway will have any on-screen involvement, though it could be a fun turn to see her as an evil stepmother or a deranged fairy godmother. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After making a ton of money together in The Devil Wears Prada 2, Anne Hathaway is staying in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":591609,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-591608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591608","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=591608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/591609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}