In May 2010, Disney bought a pitch by
The Devil Wears Prada/We Bought A Zoo scribe
Aline Brosh McKenna to remake their classic film
Cinderella in live-action. This was a few months after Tim Burton's
Alice in Wonderland was a major hit for the studio and fantasy remakes became a go-to genre (see
Mirror Mirror, Snow White And The Huntsman, Oz the Great and the Powerful etc.). A year later, director
Mark Romanek (
Never Let Me Go) ...