--- description: Cate Blanchett and Helena Bonham Carter star in the live-action fairytale title: The New Cinderella Trailer Is Just Magical as You Might Imagine image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt542834d752b1bf59/6987698d3c163946c74500f4/screen-shot-2014-11-19-at-10-57-52-am.png?branch=production&width=1920&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [movies](/tag/movies/) ## movies Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # The New _Cinderella_ Trailer Is Just Magical as You Might Imagine  by [Eliana Dockterman](/author/eliana-dockterman/)  ## Eliana Dockterman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Correspondent Nov 19, 2014 4:11 PM CUT  Cinderella CinderellaDisney  by [Eliana Dockterman](/author/eliana-dockterman/)  ## Eliana Dockterman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Correspondent Nov 19, 2014 4:11 PM CUT Disney is revisiting the classic fairy tale of Cinderella, this time as a live-action film. Though the studio found a box-office hit this summer by turning an old film, _Sleeping Beauty_, on its head in _Maleficent_, _Cinderella_ won’t follow the same model. Based on the first trailer, the movie looks an awful lot like the cartoon version Disney made in 1950. The movie’s potential lies in its all-star cast. _Downton Abbey’_s Lily James plays kind-hearted ingenue Cinderella. Cate Blanchett exudes evil as the wicked stepmother. And—in a change of pace for the usually grim actress—Helena Bonham Carter will play Cinderella’s fairy godmother. The filmmakers have even resurrected _Game of Thrones’_ Robb Stark (Richard Madden) to play the prince. _Cinderella_ hits theaters March 13. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3594731/cinderella-trailer/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3594731/cinderella-trailer/"},"headline":"The New Cinderella Trailer Is Just Magical as You Might Imagine","datePublished":"2014-11-19T16:11:18.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T11:32:34.823Z","description":"Cate Blanchett and Helena Bonham Carter star in the live-action fairytale","url":"https://time.com/3594731/cinderella-trailer/","keywords":["movies"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt542834d752b1bf59/6987698d3c163946c74500f4/screen-shot-2014-11-19-at-10-57-52-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Eliana Dockterman","jobTitle":"Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/eliana-dockterman/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt542834d752b1bf59/6987698d3c163946c74500f4/screen-shot-2014-11-19-at-10-57-52-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Screen Shot 2014-11-19 at 10.57.52 AM","caption":"Cinderella","creditText":"Disney","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/movies/","name":"movies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3594731/cinderella-trailer/","name":"The New Cinderella Trailer Is Just Magical as You Might Imagine"}}]}] ```