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

“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