Lionsgate is HAPPILY N'EVER AFTER

By: Karl Schneider
Date: Monday, June 12, 2006
Source: Hollywood Reporter

Lionsgate has acquired the domestic rights to the computer-animated film HAPPILY N'EVER AFTER.

HAPPILY N'EVER AFTER is a satirical retelling of several Grimm's fairy tales. The tales include the classic Cinderella story set in Fairy Tale Land, where the age-old balance between good and evil has been thrown out of whack. Led by Cinderella's power-mad stepmother, an unholy alliance of bad guys takes on the good guys. When Cinderella sees her own fairy tale take a radical turn, she sheds her damsel-in-distress trappings to lead the resistance.

The film stars Sarah Michelle Gellar, Sigourney Weaver, Freddie Prinze Jr., George Carlin, Wallace Shawn and Andy Dick.

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Comments/Responses

almostunbiased • Jun 12, 2006, 06:01am •

This could be funny. Wonder how dark it will get.

• Jun 12, 2006, 07:44am •

If they jokes are good (Shrek comes to mind, of course) this could be very funny.

lracors • Jun 12, 2006, 08:06am •

Please... no fart jokes.

nikodemos • Jun 12, 2006, 09:48am •

Freddie Prinze Jr. is pretty much the movie version of Ted McGinley.

snallygaster • Jun 12, 2006, 10:04am •

This is the director's first film credit, so I'm guessing this is another on-the-cheap CGI movie like Hoodwinked. Hopefully this one will be better.

All these movie parodies of fairy tales remind me of longer, slicker versions of the Fractured Fairy Tales segments on the old Rocky 'n Bullwinkle Show. I think there's still material to be mined on the premise, just depends on how good the gags are.

lemmiwinks • Jun 12, 2006, 10:20am •

Everytime I see Freddy Prince Jr.'s name I cringe. Except on Robot Chicken.

• Jun 12, 2006, 04:32pm •

i didn't think hoodwinked was that bad. The animation was bad but it wasn't that bad. Didn't like shrek. Shreck was too gimmicky. I'm a pixar fan myself.

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