This Is the Most Remade Story of All Time

No stories are new. There are a finite number of basic plots, but more than that, retelling the same stories with small twists is commonplace. From legends to fairytales, the same general stories are often taken and rebuilt into slightly different versions. While many classic fairytales exist, none are more recognizable than Cinderella. For hundreds of years, different versions of the story have been told in various cultures and languages, yet the world hasn't tired of it. The basic story of a girl meeting and falling for a prince and disappearing without giving her name, only for him to find her later, has been remade countless times as musicals, modern retellings, more reality-based renditions, parodies, and everything in between. There's Disney's 1950 Cinderella, their 2015 remake by the same name, the iconic 1997 version starring Brandy and Whitney Houston, Ella Enchanted, A Cinderella Story, Another Cinderella Story, Amazon's Cinderella, Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella musical (which has been recorded for TV multiple times), Ever After: A Cinderella Story, the upcoming Sneakerella, and many more. It's undeniable that the rags-to-riches story is retold constantly in any way imaginable.