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Fate: The Winx Saga Trivia | 62 facts about the new TV series

January 24, 2021 By Costas Despotakis Leave a Comment

“Fate: The Winx Saga” is a new Netflix original series that is based on the Italian animated series “The Winx Club”.

Let’s find out some trivia and facts about the new live action series.

  1. Fate: The Winx Saga is a teen drama series
  2. The series is inspired by the Nickelodeon animated series Winx Club
  3. Winx Club was created by Iginio Straffi
  4. It is produced by Archery Pictures in association with Rainbow
  5. Rainbow is a studio co-owned by Iginio Straffi and ViacomCBS
  6. Fate was developed by Brian Young
  7. Young also acts as the showrunner and executive producer
  8. The first season premiered on Netflix on 22 January 2021
  9. Iginio Straffi first proposed a live-action version of Winx Club in 2011
  10. Then Viacom (owner of Nickelodeon) became a co-owner of his studio and started financing his projects
  11. Before approving production on the series, Straffi gained experience with live-action television shows
  12. He was working as a producer for Nickelodeon’s Club 57
  13. Principal photography for Fate eventually began in September 2019 in Ireland
  14. Early in production, Nickelodeon’s American crew members from the cartoon (including Bloom’s voice actress, Molly Quinn) met with the Fate production team and reviewed the pilot script
  15. Rainbow’s Joanne Lee also oversaw the show as an executive producer
  16. Apart from them, the crew behind Fate is entirely new to the Winx franchise
  17. The writers were recruited from teen dramas like The Vampire Diaries
  18. Abigail Cowen as Bloom, a 16-year-old fire fairy who was raised on Earth by human parents
  19. She’s a first-year student at Alfea and Aisha’s roommate
  20. She discovers that she’s a changeling
  21. Hannah van der Westhuysen as Stella, a fashionable light fairy and the princess of Solaria
  22. Unlike her suitemates, she’s a second-year student
  23. Precious Mustapha as Aisha, an athletic water fairy
  24. She’s a first-year student and Bloom’s roommate
  25. Eliot Salt as Terra Harvey, an earth fairy and Sam’s sister
  26. She is Flora’s cousin
  27. She was raised at Alfea but has trouble connecting with her suitemates, especially her roommate Musa
  28. Elisha Applebaum as Musa, a mind fairy who feels other people’s emotions
  29. She’s a first-year student and Terra’s roommate
  30. Danny Griffin as Sky, Stella’s ex-boyfriend and son of the late celebrated war hero Andreas of Eraklyon
  31. He was raised by Silva and is a second-year Specialist student
  32. Sadie Soverall as Beatrix, an air fairy who can manipulate electricity
  33. She’s a first-year student, trying to discover more about Alfea’s dark history
  34. Freddie Thorp as Riven, a second-year Specialist student and Sky’s best friend
  35. He’s romantically involved with Beatrix
  36. Eva Birthistle as Vanessa, Bloom’s adoptive mother
  37. Because of an incident where Bloom lost control over her powers, she’s covered in healed burn wounds
  38. Robert James-Collier as Saul Silva, the Fencing instructor at Alfea and Sky’s guardian
  39. He used to be friends with Sky’s father
  40. Eve Best as Farah Dowling, Headmistress of Alfea
  41. The idea for a live-action adaptation of Winx Club dates back to 2011
  42. Winx creator Iginio Straffi first proposed a live version in May 2011, several months after Viacom (owner of Nickelodeon) became a co-owner of his studio (Rainbow) and started financing his projects
  43. At the Ischia Global Fest in 2013, Straffi stated that he was still planning a production “with the Winx in flesh and blood, played by real actors. Sooner or later it will be done”
  44. At the time, Straffi had only worked on animated productions, so he transitioned his focus to live action over the next few years
  45. After working as a producer for Nickelodeon’s live-action show Club 57
  46. Straffi announced in March 2018 that Netflix would be making a young adult adaptation of Winx Club
  47. After a pilot episode was scripted, Nickelodeon’s American crew members from the cartoon met with the Fate production team and reviewed the script
  48. Rainbow’s Joanne Lee also oversaw the show as an executive producer
  49. Apart from them, the crew behind Fate is entirely new to the Winx franchise, and the writers were recruited from teen dramas like The Vampire Diaries
  50. Brian Young, who worked on seven seasons of The Vampire Diaries, is the creator and showrunner of Fate: The Winx Saga
  51. According to an interview with The Guardian, Young chose to “ditch the look” of the cartoon Winx fairies, who have big eyes and sparkling outfits
  52. He said, “Look, again, I’m a massive manga anime fan… but nobody looks like that”
  53. Lisa James Larsson and Hannah Quinn are directing the series
  54. Casting calls were held in August 2019
  55. The show’s filming began in Wicklow, Ireland in September 2019
  56. It ended on December 13
  57. The first season’s primary filming locations included Killruddery House, Ardmore Studios in Bray and Ashford Studios in Ashford
  58. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported an approval rating of 33%
  59. Based on 12 reviews
  60. With an average rating of 5/10
  61. The series received backlash over the casting of Applebaum as Musa, who was coded as East Asian and whose character design was based on Lucy Liu
  62. As well as the apparent replacement of Flora, who was coded as Latina and whose character design was based on Jennifer Lopez, with a new white character named Terra
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