Here's every fairy tale adapted by CBS' Scream, which not only gave the horror genre a major boost after a fallow period in the early 1990s, but also popularised meta-humor too. Scream functioned as both an intense slasher movie - a testament to director Wes Craven's skill with the genre - and as a loving deconstruction of its tropes. The movie was a massive success and made the writer red hot in the years that followed.
In addition to penning Scream 2, he wrote cult horrorThe Following.
He was also the creator of Tell Me A Story, a CBS All Access series that offered contemporary takes on famous fairy tales. The series ran for two seasons between 2018 and 2020, and while it received mostly lukewarm reviews, it also attracted a fanbase too. One critique leveled at CBS' Tell Me A Story was that while it may have adapted beloved fairy tales, they often altered the stories and themes beyond recognition.
Each season adapted three fairy tales, with Tell Me A Story season 1 offering new takes on Tell Me A Story involves a sister helping her drug-addicted brother after he accidentally kills a man.
Tell Me A Story season 2 retained some cast like Paul Wesley, but otherwise focused on new characters and storylines. This season involves the three grown-up children of music manager Rebecca Pruitt (Carrie-Anne Moss), with each sibling getting their own fairy tale reinvention. Ashley (Natalie Alyn Lind) is the focus of the Cinderella segment is given to Ashley Madekwe's Simone, who Jackson Pruitt - the family black sheep - falls for.