'True Grit' star Hailee Steinfeld will star as Sleeping Beauty
Spec script re-tells fairy tale from princess' point of view in dream world
Hailee Steinfeld
Oscar-nominated "True Grit" star Hailee Steinfeld is attached to "Sleeping Beauty," a spec package currently being shopped around, reports Deadline.com.
Penned by Lindsay Devlin, the script flips the fairy tale on its head and tells it from the point of view of the slumbering princess as attempts to escape the world of her own dreams. Paging Mr. Sandman.
This is the first film that 14-year-old Steinfeld has signed for since "True Grit," although she was among the many names rumored to star in "Hunger Games."
In a similar situation to the two current competing Snow White projects, Disney is also developing a Sleeping Beauty-related film called "Maleficent," with "Alice in Wonderland" director Tim Burton on board.
Other fairy tale-derived films on deck include Paramount's "Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters" with Jeremy Renner ("The Hurt Locker") and Disney's "Oz: The Great and Powerful," which will re-team James Franco ("127 Hours") with his "Spider-Man" director, Sam Raimi.
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March 29, 2011 at 8:04PM EST Reply to CommentNone of these fairy tale reimaginings sound any good. They sound desperate, in fact. Sleeping Beauty will be in a dream world. That sounds like a poor parody. I would hate to see Steinfeld squander her good talent making poor choices. If they really wanted to make this type of story, adapt Gaiman's Sandman, and also Death. Hansel and Gretel as Van-Helsing
like monster hunters? Will they be joined by Abraham Lincoln in an across time and genre, real and fake justice league? Red Riding Hood tanked, so flip, lazy constructions of fairy tales seem commercially and critically not to work.