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# Cinderella steps into the 21st century
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## As Disney announces plans for a live-action version of the fairy tale,
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Rachel Cooper considers the candidates
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![A possible Cinderella? Amanda Seyfried, seen here in 'Letters to Juliet'
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A possible Cinderella? Amanda Seyfried, seen here in 'Letters to Juliet'
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Photo: AP
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By Rachel Cooper 2:03PM BST 19 May 2010
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Polish your glass slippers, buff up the carriage, Disney is set to make - yet
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another - version of the ubiquitous rags-to-riches story, Cinderella.
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Disney has reportedly shelled out a seven-figure sum for a new live-action
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version of the classic fairy tale scripted by Aline Brosh McKenna, who wrote
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_27 Dresses_ and _The Devil Wears Prada_.
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Although the prospect of a Disney princess, in flesh and blood rather than
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pencilled, is undeniably thrilling, it does raise the question - who on earth
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would be willing, and able, to take up the mantle of playing this most famous
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of fairy-tale roles?
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There have, of course, been multiple Hollywood versions of the girl who is
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transformed from maid to princess thanks to the appearance of a fairy
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godmother and the fortuitous loss of an impractically designed shoe. Drew
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Barrymore injected some feisty femininity into the role in _Ever After_ and
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Julia Stiles bagged her aristocrat in _The Prince and Me_.
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As well as the obviously Cinderella-esque protagonists, there are countless
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other cinematic heroines that reference Cinders. _Pretty Woman_ even had her
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as a hooke, and there were elements of the story in the dreadful _Maid in
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Manhattan_ and _27 Dresses_ with Katherine Heigl playing the put-upon Jane was
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littered with Cinderella allusions - perhaps no surprise then that Brosh
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McKenna is returning to the story.
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But if Disney is sticking to the original tale, who could carry the weight of
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beauty, graciousness - and expectation - as Cinderella herself?
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As one online voice put it yesterday: "Disney, we implore you, don't pick
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Miley Cyrus". I'll second that. But, after that cage performance on _Dancing
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with the Stars_, I'm not so sure she's looking for such a squeaky clean role
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anyway.
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Would Amanda Seyfried step up the to the plate? Although perhaps a little
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older than Cinderella, she has the romantic film pedigree. But, after her role
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as escort Chloe in the film of the same name, audiences might have trouble
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reconciling an actress who played a call girl with our Cinders. Or could
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Dianna Agron make the jump from _Glee_ - where she plays fallen cheerleader
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Quinn Fabray - to Disney's golden girl?
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The most magical, but perhaps the most far-fetched, option would be Scarlett
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Johansson. Annie Leibovitz shot the _Iron Man 2_ star as Cinderella for a
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Disney publicity shot in 2007 and floating down the palace steps in that blue
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ballgown, she looks surprisingly right.
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The Mouse House is - for now - keeping schtum on casting, format and exactly
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how the story will unfold. Until then, we'll have to keep hoping that our
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modern-day Cinderella is someone worthy of the glass slipper rather than a
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right pumpkin.
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