Fairly (2015)

Fairly is a 2015 American fantasy live-action comedy film directed by Rob letterman, based on the book written and created by Chris Van Allsburg of the same name author of the 1981 children's book Jumanji. It is a standalone spin-off of the 1995 film Jumanji and the 2005 film Zathura and the third installment of the Jumanji franchise. The film stars Rainn Wilson, Jillian Bell, Calliey McClincy, Gabriel Batman, Emilia Clarke, and Emily Blunt. 
The film follows two young kids who move from there loving home in Ohio and move to New York City who are trying to fit in, but the young girl finds a board game titled Fairly that lets out all kinds of fairy tale characters to life and have to finish the game to send everything back. The film was released in theaters in the United States on November 11, 2015 by Columbia Pictures, the film received mostly positive reviews by critics, and was a success at the box office. 
== Synopsis ==
A young girl named Molly Howard (Callie McClincy) comes very edgy about moving from Ohio to New York City with whole new people, She goes to a whole new school trying to make friends and gets a very nice and mysterious welcome with her new School teacher Mr. Barns Aka John (Rainn Wilson). She finds a mysterious board game in her attic and takes it downstairs where she is looked after by her Brother Caleb (Gabriel Bateman) and in her house takes her first roll and sets out Snow White her self (Emilia Clarke) who is very curious about the real world and has Molly show her what the real world can be like, but accidently releases an Evil Queen (Emily Blunt) and lets out all kinds of fairytales characters into the City. Molly must team up with Mr. Barns, her brother Caleb (Gabriel Bateman), and their Aunt Lorraine (Jillian Bell) to finish the game quickly before their adventure that might not lead a happily ever after. 
== Summary ==
"From the world of Jumanji and Zathura"
"Fairly"
== Plot ==
The film begins with Molly (Calliey McClincy) as a little baby, and her parent's give her a little snow white plushie as a present and the film has a whole coming of age sequence with Molly growing up loving fairy tale character's as a young child with her father and telling her bedtime stories, puppet shows, and school plays that molly was always in, and who loves to Ice skate with her family especially with her best dad ever, and things in her life couldn't get better. Until her dad passes away when Molly was 8 and haven't been dealing with him not being around, but still has her brother Caleb (Gabriel Bateman) and her mother Gale (Amy Ryan) to look out for her and have to move to New York cause the mom got a new job to freshen up. 
Molly, Caleb and their mother go on a long drive form Ohio over to New York and stop by a moved out neighborhood house in the city, which leaves Molly concerned and not into it like his brother and have look around inside has Molly look at his mother with sigh that makes her run upstairs to see her room, and Gale walks upstairs to check on Molly laying on her bed look all drummy and Gale tries to cheer her up by telling her about what her father used to be like when they first met that makes Molly chuckle with a smile that her father used to be a very funny person. Caleb stands behind the door curious what their talking about and start talking her mean old school principle back in Ohio and walks down stairs. 
Gale starts filling up the house furniture and house items while putting on some old-school music and when finished cuts to Molly and Caleb in Caleb's decorated room and Molly starts deciding what board game she and Caleb should play and Caleb refuses saying that Molly always cheats at board games and Molly starts playing with some action figures and breaks one and Caleb gets angry and chases Molly threw the house and downstairs bumps into a shelf and breaks a fancy vase, and the mother hears and runs over and sees the vase on the floor broken and starts questioning who did it and Molly and Caleb point at each other saying they did it and cuts over with the two of them at a couch all down and bored with the mother says she's gonna be at job interview for a day or two cause of dedicated she is to this job Molly worries she's gonna leave them all alone in their new house, and says she wants both of them to start getting along with each other and calls their Aunt Lorraine (Jillian Bell) to look after them. 
Molly, Caleb and Aunt Lorraine start driving home from the open house and return home with Caleb and Molly rushing into the house and over to TV and Caleb beats her to it, Molly than leaves angrily while Caleb watches FOX Sports football on the TV. Molly than gets a job by Caleb to go clean down the basement but than traps and locks her in to leave him alone with molly scared and running through the old and dusty basement and comes across an old antique board game named Fairly A Fairytale Adventure she than finds a way out and goes to Caleb who is watching TV and Molly shows him the board game she found, but Caleb doesn't seem interested and claims it as a game for babies but Molly still thinks it's cool and folds it open and see's the game's amazing design and opens up some game tokens that shoot across the game magically. Molly than rolls the dice as her piece moves by itself and a cryptic message appears in a crystal ball in the center of the board describing the outcome of the roll. Both Caleb and Molly hear a big crash upstairs like they both heard something and run upstairs to investigate, they both check the closet and Molly gets jump scared by nothing as they both turn around to see the one and only Snow White (Emilia Clarke). 
== Cast ==
* Callie McClincy as Molly Howard
* Gabriel Bateman as Caleb Howard
* Rainn Wilson as Jonathan Barns 
* Jillian Bell as Lorraine Howard
* Amy Ryan as Gale Howard (Molly and Caleb Howard)
* Emilia Clarke as Snow White 
* Emily Blunt as The Evil Queen/Molly's School Principle 
* Steve Carell as Pinocchio, The Gingerbread Boy, and the ants.
* Carol Kane as the Witch (Hansel and Gretel)
* Cailey Fleming as Little Red Riding Hood
* Brandon Jamar as Jack (Jack and the Beanstalk)
* Avery Phillips as Goldie (Goldilocks and the three bears)
* Colbi Gannett as Little Miss Muffet
* Matt Damon as The Prince (Cinderella's Prince) 
* Kylie Rogers as Rapunzel 
* Ashely Liao as Sleeping Beauty
* Oona Laurence as "The Girl who Spun the Gold" (Rumpelstiltskin)
* Ben Mendelsohn as Van Butler (The British Hunter)
* Aiden Flowers as "The Boy who Cried Wolf"
* TBA as The Magic Mirror
* Simon Pegg as Humpty Dumpty 
* Rhys Darby as The Court Jester
* Chris Tucker as New York Chief Police Officer Sam 
* Chris Miller as Harry Howard (Molly and Caleb's father)
== Cameo ==
* Chris Van Allsberg as the (School History Teacher)
== Production ==
The film was originally was going to be made in 2007 but was staled because it was dragged by director to director and couldn't find a correct filmmaker to take it on until Rob Letterman took it by 2013 and started production in 2014. 
In September 2013, it was reported that Rainn Wilson was in talks to "play a school history teacher who eventually becomes one of the four players of the Fairly. 
It was announced in February 2014 that Callie McClincy had been cast as Molly Howard the littlest sister from the book and Gabriel Bateman has been cast Caleb Howard the older brother from the book. On February 26, 2014, it was announced that the film would be released on March 23, 2016. On April 4, 2014, it was announced that Amy Ryan and Jillian Bell had joined the cast as the Howard's mother and aunt respectively. On April 10, 2014, Rainn Wilson joined the cast as the school history teacher. On April 28, 2014, Chris Parnell joined the cast. On May 1, 2014, the film's release date was moved up to November 11, 2015. Chris Van Allsburg stated on May 20, 2014, that he was going to make a cameo appearance in the film. 
== Comic Con ==
=== San Diego Comic-Con International ===
The film was promoted at the 2014 San Diego Comic-Con International where Rob Letterman meets up with Rainn Wilson, Emilia Clarke and Emily Blunt start talking about the fun of the film and on the big screen they start interacting with Pinocchio and the Gingerbread Boy (both voiced by Steve Carell) who star bring some puns and jokes over to comic con and start talking about the fun of the film and got to show a full look at to what the board game will look like in the movie. 
File:Emilia Clarke & Emily Blunt at Comic Con.jpg|Emilia Clarke & Emily Blunt at San Diego Comic Con 2014
 
== Trivia ==
* This Film was gonna be consider a direct sequel to the 1995 film Jumanji but Rob Letterman wanted the movie to be separate from the film because he wanted the movie to feel like it's own thing and like a direct sequel.
* Fairly (2015) and Zathura (2005) are both considered in the same universe as Jumanji.
* The film was actually filmed in New York City.
* Emilia Clarke actully had to wear a latex head makeup to but on her snow white wig for the movie. 
* Emily Blunt actually played both The Evil Queen and Molly's old school principle to symbolize Molly's fear of growing up.
* Steve Carell voiced both Pinocchio and the Gingerbread Boy and the little ants that Caleb rolled.
* The board game used in the movie was inspired by the Jumanji game board and took some unique game ideas to it and made more like a Dungeons & Dragons vibe to it.
* Chris Hemsworth actually got some tips from Chris Pines on how to act more princely.
* Fairly is considered to be in the board game cinematic universe. 
* Oona Laurence actually had to learn to speak germen for the movie for the scenes she was in.
* The 2015 Fairly film was than turn into a video game for the PS4 two years later as a story driven game.
* Rob Letterman described the film as him making a live action Shrek movie.
* A cameo of Snow White was featured in the film with the seven dwarfs singing Heigh-Ho.
* A Goosebumps movie was originally gonna be released around this time with the same director but got canceled by R.L Stein and Sony due to them having creative differences and was replaced with the Fairly film shortly after.
* Juliet Donenfeld was 6 turning 7 when she did this film playing Little Miss Muffet.
== Soundtrack ==
The soundtrack for the movie was composed by John Debney who also composed several other films including Zathura (2005) and Ant bully (2006). 
Fairly (2015) Official Soundtrack
No.	Title 	Length	Composer
1. 	Prologue and Main Titles 	3:27 	John Debney
2. 	Aunt Lorraine is Here 	1:40 	John Debney
3. 	Molly Finds the Game 	1:20 	John Debney
4. 	The First Move 	2:30 	John Debney
5. 	Meet Snow White 	2:25 	John Debney
6. 	Elf Mayhem/Dragon on the House	5:18 	John Debney
7. 	Here Comes the Evil Queen 	2:50 	John Debney
8. 	It Grows And Grows 	2:06 	John Debney
9. 	Beanstalk Attack 	2:40 	John Debney
10.	Van Butler Returns 	1:43 	John Debney
11.	A War is Coming 	1:51 	John Debney
12.	The Wicked Witch of the Bakery	2:23 	John Debney
13.	Rampage Through New York 	3:22 	John Debney
14.	Dragon on the Loose 	2:30 	John Debney
15.	The Mystical Rain 	4:30 	John Debney
16.	Petrifaction/The Marching Ants	5:20 	John Debney
17.	Molly Wins the Game 	2:23 	John Debney
18.	Happily Ever After 	1:30 	John Debney
== Additional Soundtrack ==
The soundtrack for the film, featuring original music composed by John Debney, was released on CD on November 23, 2015, by Sony Classical Records. The digital version was released by Madison Gate Records the week before.
=== Songs featured in the film ===
* "Jingles Bells" - Bobby Helms
* "Walking on Sunshine" - Katrina And The Waves 
== Gallery ==
File:Fairly Elves Clip.jpg|Fairly (8/10) Movie CLIP - GoldiLocks Hires the Elves (2015) HD
File:Fairly (2015) Dragon on the House.jpg|Fairly (6/10) Movie CLIP - Dragon Wakes Up (2015) HD
File:Fairly (2015) Rampage Through The City.jpg|Fairly (7/10) Movie CLIP - Rampage Through The City (2015) HD
File:Fairly Game Tokens.jpg|Fairly (2015) Game Tokens
File:Fairly 2015 Board Game.jpg|Fairly (2015) Board Game
== Video Game's ==
Fairly: Video Game (2017) Info.
Fairly is an fantasy-adventure game developed by High Voltage Software and published by 2K for PlayStation 3 and Xbox in 2017. The game is based on the 2015 film Fairly, which, in turn, is an adaptation of the 1994 children's book Fairly by Chris Van Allsburg. The game was released on July 3, 2017, in the U.S. to coincide with the then-upcoming film's release on June 11. Callie McClincy and Gabriel Bateman return to to do the voices of Molly and Caleb in the game including the rest of the original cast from the first movie.
=== Video Game Voice Cast ===
* Callie McClincy as Molly
* Gabriel Bateman as Caleb
* Emilia Clarke as Snow White
* Emily Blunt as The Evil Queen
* Matt Damon as The Prince (Cinderella's Prince)
* Cailey Fleming as Little Red Riding Hood
* Brandon Jamar as Jack (Jack & the Beanstalk)
* Avery Philips as Goldie (Goldilocks and the Three Bears)
* Colbi Gannett as Little Miss Muffet
* Rhys Darby as The Court Jester
* TBA King Arthur (The Abandon Prince)
* Alan Tudyk as King Harold Fairlyous the 3rd (Ruler of Farlandia) 
== Future ==
A sequel film titled Fairly: Game of Secrets released in July of 2021. The film deals after the events of the first film that deals with two new kids Adam and Sally that find the board game and instead of the game coming into the real the kids go on a big fantasy adventure in the game. All the original actors couldn't return for the sequel but two close friend actors Cailey Fleming and Brandon Jamar return for the roles as Red and Jack in the film along with other new actors.