Hilary Duff and Chad Michael Murray starred in this more modern version of the film. When Ella later hears rumors that the prince wants to marry a strange Egyptian princess from the party, she doesn't realize they are actually talking about her. Unlike many other versions of "Cinderella" where the lead has long, blonde hair, Ella has dark, short hair and her appearance is actually an important plot point.īecause of her appearance, the townspeople at the ball mistake her as being an Egyptian princess. Toquet vanishes into thin air, revealing that she was magical all along. Later in the movie, the carriage crashes and turns into a pumpkin and Mrs. Toquet brings Ella a beautiful dress and glass slippers and arranges a carriage as transportation to the ball, but Ella doesn't attribute these things to magic. Tuoquet, whose magic is mostly hidden and low-key. She doesn't first meet him at the big ball, since Ella and the prince actually met when they were children.Īnd although Ella does lose a glass slipper as expected, in this version of "Cinderella," the fairy godmother comes in the form of an eccentric older friend, Mrs. Unlike many other versions of the story, in this film Ella has a deep connection with the prince from the very start. In"The Glass Slipper," Cinderella, whose name is Ella in the film, is an antisocial orphan who is a servant to her stepmother and stepsisters.
This version also hides its magical elements until the end of the movie.