EXCLUSIVE: Anastasia and Drizella are finally coming out from under the shadow of Cinderella. Disney is making Stepsisters, a live action film that focused on the evil stepsisters who abused Cinderella and got theirs when her foot fit the slipper.
Fresh from Disney’s Chip n’ Dale: Rescue Rangers, director Akiva Schaffer, Dan Gregor and Doug Mand have been set. Gregor & Mand have been brought on to rewrite a script by Michael Montemayor.
Ali Bell is producing for Party Over Here, and Disney Live Action EVP Jessica Virtue will oversee with creative exec Cady Stark.
Schaffer is longtime partners with The Lonely Island’s Andy Samberg and Jorma Taccone, and their Party Over Here is producing. Emmy and Peabody Award winners for their Saturday Night Live work, they produced the animated series Digman!, PEN15 and the Emmy winning series I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson, and the Sundance Festival sensation Palm Springs. They are currently in production on the action comedy Protecting Jared starring Jason Momoa & Andy Samberg for Netflix filming on location in Hawaii.
Schaffer is repped by CAA, Gregor & Mand by UTA and Kaplan/Perrone, Montemayor is repped by IEG.
