Netflix has released the official
Fate: The Winx Saga trailer for their upcoming live-action series adaptation of the popular animated series
Winx Club. The video provides us a preview of the main characters led by Abigail Cowen’s Bloom as they try to master their fairy magic. The series will be available for streaming on Friday, January 22, 2021. Check out the video in the player below!
Fate: The Winx Saga is a six-episode coming-of-age series which follows the story of five unlikely friends attending Alfea, a magical boarding school in the Otherworld where they must learn to master their magical powers while navigating love, rivalries and the monsters that threaten their very existence.
is just days from its premiere.
Brian Young s supernatural drama is a live-action re-imagining of Italian-American cartoon
Winx Club, a bright and sparkly animation from the mind of Iginio Straffi.
Taking a grittier and more adult direction,
The Winx Saga promises to fill the gap left by
Vampire Diaries with its protagonists navigating love, rivalries, and the monsters that threaten their very existence .
The new Netflix series follows the coming-of-age journey of five fairies – Bloom, Stella, Aisha, Terra, and Musa – who attend Alfea, a prestigious magical boarding school in the Otherworld. Netflix
Cartoons made specifically for girls often emphasize friendship. Whether that means powerful fairies teaming up to save the day or glamorous super-spies on a covert mission, these shows are usually built around the kinds of fulfilling relationships between young women that are all too rare on the big screen. While cartoons made for boys, which are more likely to emphasize adventure and independence, frequently get adapted to live-action versions for older audiences, that’s been rarer for girl-focused shows. And it’s high time that changed.
Winx Club, the long-running Italian cartoon about a group of best-friend fairies, is one of the few expressly girl-focused shows to make the leap to live action, through a darker, edgier series from
Fate: The Winx Saga is everything fans feared
By Jamal Grootboom
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Remember how we all wondered who asked for a dark live-action âWinx Clubâ adaptation, well âFate: The Winx Sagaâ is exactly the abomination we feared.
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Based on the popular Italian animated show the âWinx Clubâ,
Fate: The Winx Saga reimagines the fairies in Alfea in a more realistic setting with Bloom (Abigail Cowen), Stella (Hannah van der Westhuysen), Aisha (Precious Mustapha), Terra (Eliot Salt) and Musa (Elisha Applebaum).
The new students at the magical school have battle monsters that havenât been in the Otherworld in 16 years.
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