Once Upon A Time - Pilot Script Review
Mar 25, 2011
Once Upon A Time Pilot ShowsONCE UPON A TIME
Network: ABC
Written By: Edward Kitsis & Adam Horowitz
Draft Date: January 28, 2011
Pages: 58
Once Upon a Time is billed as a sort of Fables, a story where fairy tales come to life in a town in the real world. This is both literally true and entirely misleading.
The pilot presents a twin story structure. One, in the Fairy Tale Land, where we begin with a familiar scene of Prince Charming finding Snow White dead in a glass coffin. He kisses her, she wakes up, yadda yadda yadda, happily ever after. Or is it? We play out what happens next, which involves the Evil Queen (hey, I thought she died in the fairy tale? Just the Disney version?) cursing the happy couple, their as-yet-unborn child, and the entire land, then Snow and Charming doing everything in their power to prevent said curse: no more happy endings.
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It sounds a bit weird. I don't know 'no happy ends' doesn't sound that horrible to me. It's just real life. I see that could be the reason why the fairytale characters are frozen in the real world. The curse transported them to a world, our universe, where there are no easy happy endings. *sigh* I'm really disappointed. I hoped the storyline would be better.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the write up! It sounds intriguing...
ReplyDeleteCan't go wrong with Kitsis and Horowitz.
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