Disney has found someone to wear a potion slipper.

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Lily James (Downton Abbey) will star as Cinderella in Disney’s live-action interpretation of a classical tale.

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Kenneth Branagh will direct, with Cate Blanchett personification a immorality stepmother.

James played Lady Rose MacClare on deteriorate 3 of Downton Abbey and will reprise her purpose for deteriorate four. The British actress’ film work includes personification Korrina in Warner Bros.’ Wrath of a Titans.

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Emma Watson was in talks to star as a princess, though a understanding never closed.

The Cinderella plan was initial set adult during Disney in May 2010 in a arise of a studio’s success with Alice in Wonderland, a live-action instrumentation of a Lewis C. Carroll book that starred Johnny Depp.

Devil Wears Prada author Aline Brosh McKenna wrote a initial breeze of a script.

James is repped by UTA in a U.S. and by Charles Collier during Tavistock Wood in a U.K.