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Plot summary
The Wizard looks after every story in Fairy Tale Land, keeping the Scales of Good and Evil balanced so each tale reaches its happy ending. He sets off on a vacation to Scotland and leaves his assistants Munk and Mambo in charge. Munk wants the tales to run as they always have, while Mambo would like the characters to choose different fates. In Cinderella's story, Ella lives as a servant to her stepmother Frieda and her stepsisters, too timid to stand up for herself, and hopes a prince will carry her off. Her best friend Rick, who serves the Prince, loves her. The Fairy Godmother gives Ella a dress and glass slippers for the ball, on the condition that she is home before midnight. Frieda gets into the Wizard's lair, takes his staff and tips the Scales.
Cast
- Lisa Kaplanas Fairy Godmother (voice)
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Happily N'Ever After (2006)
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- Simsala Grimm's creators Andre Sikojev, Stefan Beiten and Claus Clausen wrote a first draft far darker than the light-hearted series. Producers John H. Williams and Michael Hefferon rejected it, and Vanguard commissioned a new comic draft from Rob Moreland instead.
- Robert Michael Jeter was first set to voice Rumpelstiltskin, but he died on 30 March 2003 and the role was recast with Michael McShane.
- A whole hand-drawn version was thrown away. With rough animation and all the 2D storyboards already finished, John H. Williams scrapped the traditional film as a tax write-off and restarted it in CGI; Hahn Film was fired and 100 animators were laid off, though director Paul J. Bolger stayed.
- Lionsgate had never put out a theatrical animated feature before this one, picking it up in early 2006 with help from foreign sales agent Odyssey Entertainment after an expected Disney release through Vanguard's pact did not happen.
- Lionsgate judged the finished film not good enough and hired Yvette Kaplan and Doug Langdale to direct and write new material. Langdale rewrote the script in Los Angeles while Kaplan spent four months in Berlin re-editing the film in full with Ringo Hess, then boarded and directed the new scenes.
- The music was replaced along with everything else: Yvette Kaplan went back to Los Angeles to direct a new score by Paul Buckley, and the original score supervised by James L. Venable and written by a team of ten composers was largely scrapped.
- All those restarts made it, according to author Rolf Giesen, the most expensive animated film made in Germany, costing 44 million euros because of its delayed production. Production finally wrapped in April 2006.
