• Fairy Godmother

  • Chiara Atik
  • Set Up
  • Comedy
  • 2016
  • Black List
  • 73
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Market: Wed, 26 Oct 2016Sold: Wed, 26 Oct 2016
Producer: Helen Estabrock
AgentDerek Zasky, Tanya Cohen (WME)
ManagerTom Drumm (Think Tank)
StudioMGM
A comic revisionist look at the classic Fairy Godmother tale.
A fairy godmother unintentionally becomes the target of a prince's romantic desires, even though the prince is supposed to fall in love with the fairy godmother's client "godchild."
A fairy godmother is tasked with helping a beautiful young girl fall in love with a prince, but her job becomes complicated when she begins to develop feelings for her client's object of affection.
After years of successfully pairing young girls with their dream crushes, a fairy godmother gets involved with her clients crush who is the greatest prince of all.
Film
Female Protagonist, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance, Prince/Princess, Teen, Feel Good/Uplifting, Chick Flick, Love Triangle, Romantic Comedy, Boyfriend/Girlfriend, Dating, Fairy Tale, Female, Love, Magic, Transformation
113
PG-13
Medium
F
Unspecified
40
Average
The Princess Diaries, Ella Enchanted, Into the Woods, Hello My Name is Doris
Fairy tale medieval times/over the course of several days
Multiple rooms in palaces including bedrooms, kitchens, dining halls, gardens, ballrooms, etc, Forest and river, large office building, cottage, road in the woods, various medieval teenage bedrooms
In a fairy tale land, a teenage girl is crying in her room because a boy she liked decided to go in a group to a ball instead of with just her. At the sound of her sobs, a fairy godmother, FAYE (40) appears. Faye outfits the girl with a carriage, a dress, and sends her on the way to the ball. After the girl leaves, Faye gives an invoice to the girl's parents and it is revealed that Fairy Godmother-ing is a paid service and Faye is one of the best in the business.

When Faye goes back to the Fairy Godmother headquarters, she is greeted by her assistant, TILLY (20s) and her boss TOM (50s) who congratulate her on the results of the previous night. Though Faye is good at her job, she seems somewhat reluctant to pursue her next case, a rich, beautiful girl named KENZIE JAMES (18) as she would rather give girls a sense of self-sufficiency rather than helping them get the boy of their dreams. In fact, Faye herself seems to be perfectly content in her own independent, self-sufficient life, with no romantic interest in sight. But she is lured into taking the case by the...