the fictional preteens behind the real netflix christmas cinematic universe

Like many of us, drift partner and I spent the week indulging in Netflix’s truly choice Christmas offerings. I’m talking their best, most royal Christmas film series: the A Christmas Prince trilogy, The Princess Switch and it’s truly incredible sequel, and The Knight Before Christmas. As I explained at my writing job, these movies all share a cinematic universe, so the best way to watch them is in the release order: CP1, CP2, PS1, KB, CP3, PS2. This also means you have a linear ascension of complete cinematic insanity.

We also came up with a truly bananas theory to explain why these movies are the way they are: they were actually written by a trio of eleven-year-olds.

Emma, Elizabeth, and Carrie are all in the same class at school. They’re all fairly well-to-do, though Carrie’s family is straight-up rich (her parents are lawyers); Emma is white and disabled, Elizabeth (some people call her Liz) is Black, and Carrie is mixed Asian. All three girls love The Princess Diaries, High School Musical, and also Thor. In December, their teacher gave the class a creative writing assignment: create a modern winter fairytale. Everyone else in the class handed in a couple of pages. These precocious weirdos handed in entire script treatments.

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