If there’s one factor in frequent between the 2025 film calendar and the 2026 film schedule, it’s that there’s loads of reboots, remakes and legacy sequels of types. One of many greatest ones headed our means earlier than summer time’s finish is Freakier Friday, full with Lindsay Lohan, Jamie Lee Curtis and Chad Michael Murray. However Murray’s now hyping up and presenting one other of his early aughts classics for a reboot: A Cinderella Story. And I’m fairly offered on his pitch.
Whereas Murray has shared a wild concept for Freakier Friday‘s Jake that didn’t get as a lot love as his pitch for Cinderella Story 2. Parade’s TikTok posted his baseline premise for what turned of Sam Montgomery and Austin’s modern-day tackle the basic fairy story. He believed issues weren’t all completely happy endings, as he mentioned:
However I had talked about a Cinderella Story reboot, and I feel the best way that I’d do it could be: as love does in highschool, it does not work out more often than not. , they’ve gone separate methods.
It’s a good and life like angle! I like the unique however the actuality of the 2 of them sticking collectively is fairly slim, particularly with all that was pit in opposition to their relationship. A return to one another later in life does appear possible, after each have grown up and gained extra perspective.
The One Tree Hill star went on to elucidate what the 2 could also be as much as right now. He believed Ames can be a trainer at the highschool, Montgomery would have a household however no associate and their lives would re-intersect via her children. From there, he thought there could possibly be a double Cinderella storyline, saying:
They’ve had their lives, you realize, perhaps my character can be a trainer at this level, like an English trainer again on the college. And perhaps, Hilary Duff’s character bought married, had children. It did not work out. And now her daughter occurs to be in my class. And also you do like a twin Cinderella story, the place she’s gonna go and he or she’s slightly shy and he or she does not slot in. And he nurtures that, after which comes throughout along with her and blah, blah, blah.
Within the realm of the world, I feel that this might naturally play nicely within the two-decadeish since we final noticed the highschool sweethearts. With a number of these revisitings, for my part, loads of them really feel too compelled. Sam and Austin may’ve simply grown away from one another throughout faculty solely to return nose to nose once more and re-open the previous.
The Sullivan’s Crossing actor additionally pointed on the market’s a strong fan base for films like this, Freakier Friday to not point out The Satan Wears Prada 2. Every new technology inevitably comes to seek out these titles and falls in love with at the least a couple of, so why not revisit the world. Murray concludes the thought by saying films like this are nicely made and will have the chance to be re-explored:
There’s an viewers for lots of these films that had been on the market. And Cinderella Story stands the take a look at of time. Nonetheless right now, younger women are watching it on a regular basis. And each time it is on, I am sitting there going ‘ what? They did an excellent job with this movie.’ Hats off to all people.
Lots of the flicks that got here out across the similar time as A Cinderella Story nonetheless stand to today, with a rising fan base. So, to me, I hope it’s a matter of time for this concept, or one thing associated to it will get greenlit. However, as a member of the OG focused viewers, I don’t suppose I’d by no means not advocate for a resurgence (actually nonetheless wishing for the scrapped Lizzie McGuire reboot to regain traction).
Let’s simply hope Murray continues to current his enjoyable A Cinderella Story pitch and so he can assist spark a Duffassaince.