A New Cinderella?

http://www.wsj.com/articles/disneys-dream-come-true-live-action-fairy-tales-1426009834

This article points out some very interesting new developments in the world of Disney. Most notably is the production of a live action Cinderella, where the majority of the plot is kept from the original animated film, but where some things are changed to make the movie more dense. The writers gave the Prince a father-son relationship, Cinderella's step-mother a background, and the reason as to why Cinderella never leaves the grasp of her step-mother. While this information might be helpful to better understand the characters in a full length live action film, I see the change as damaging to the original Cinderella. I agree that the characters should have had more of a background to begin with, but changing the story of the characters now will simply ruin the charm and simplicity of the original animated film. While the movie does certainly allow Cinderella to continue to evolve past the 1950 version, it's just another attempt by Disney to squeeze all the money out of a story that they can, but I feel it diminishes the "magical" charm of the original.