1. The film's writer Leigh Dunlap revealed it took Duff, a large Disney prima astatine the time, signing connected to prima successful the movie to yet get the movie made and pb to a bidding war."

"I was really approached by immoderate producers to constitute a 'modern instrumentality connected Cinderella' and went from there, Dunlap told Slayground. "It didn't instrumentality agelong to constitute primitively but it took everlastingly to sell. There were respective competing Cinderella projects astatine the time."

2. Cinderella was Duff's favourite fairy communicative increasing up and she signed connected to bash the movie aft Mark Rosman, 1 of her favorite Lizzie McGuire directors, brought the publication to her ma and manager, Susan Duff.

3. Harry Potter prima Rupert Grint was reportedly acceptable to prima arsenic Austin Ames, but had to driblet retired owed to scheduling conflicts with the beloved franchise. 

4. Before filming, Murray took Duff retired for a coffee "just to get to cognize her and enactment with her truthful we could make immoderate benignant of narration betwixt each different truthful it would beryllium easier connected set," the One Tree Hill prima explained to Black Film.

5. Years later, Duff admitted to having a crush connected her older co-star, telling Cosmopolitan, "I decidedly had a crush connected him. We had a fewer kissing scenes successful the movie and I retrieve feeling beauteous tense astir that, but past we became friends and I wasn't truthful tense anymore."

6. Before Murray signed on, Austin Ames didn't person overmuch of a backstory, with Murray suggesting the struggle betwixt the fashionable jock and his begetter implicit pursuing successful his footsteps to play shot astatine USC.

"I sat down and I talked to the shaper and manager and said, 'Guys, we should truly turn connected this storyline. I deliberation having 2 storylines conscionable successful the mediate with 2 radical who aren't blessed that find each different and go happy, I deliberation that that's interesting,'" Murray told Black Film.

7. The film's epic buss successful the rainfall astatine the extremity of the movie really took spot connected the 3rd time of production, with Duff telling People, "It was overmuch amended than my existent archetypal kiss, but like, astir apt mode much awkward due to the fact that determination were 270 radical watching, unit and worldly similar that, and we besides changeable it connected the 3rd time of filming. Out of those 3 days, I'd lone worked with Chad 1 day...and we really practiced a small bit."

8. Murray inadvertently recovered himself progressive successful the ongoing (and present iconic) feud that was going connected betwixt Duff and his Freaky Friday co-star Lindsay Lohan aft their emotion triangle with Aaron Carter.

"She...got pissed disconnected due to the fact that I worked with Chad Michael Murray [on Cinderella] aft she had worked with him," Duff claimed to Blender astatine the time. "She called him up and said each these atrocious things astir me, which she past repeated to the press."

Duff past reportedly banned Lohan from attending the premiere of A Cinderella Story.

9. The formal Sam wore to the masquerade shot ended up becoming an instant classic, with thousands of girls trying to recreate the look for their Sweet 16 celebrations oregon proms. But the formal was astir wholly different.

"When we were archetypal trying to fig retired Sam's formal for the ball, I was harkening backmost to the archetypal Cinderella, utilizing each of those colored layers with this iridescent bluish fabrics similar you've astir apt seen successful the Disney cartoon, and it conscionable didn't enactment out," costume decorator Denise Wingate told Interview. "I wanted it to beryllium this colorful happening but aft we camera tested it, it ended up looking similar a mish-mash. So we went for thing much classic, astir similar a wedding dress, and conscionable this beauteous imaginativeness of white. It was a Monique Lhuillier formal and it ended up being perfect."

10. Finding the cleanable disguise for the large country was besides a challenge, with Wingate telling the publication, "We made 12 antithetic masks—there's a batch of proceedings and mistake to get it close erstwhile you're dealing with a connection outfit."

11. Regina King's crook arsenic Rhonda, Sam's adjacent person and coworker who fills the fairy godmother role, became 1 of the roles the Oscar victor is asked astir about by fans.

"About 5 oregon six years ago, I kept proceeding radical ask, 'Are you Rhonda?' and I was like, 'Who's Rhonda?' " King recalled successful an interrogation with Essence, admitting she doesn't ever remembering her characters' names. "Then I realized they were talking astir Rhonda from A Cinderella Story."

12. In 1 of his archetypal large roles, The Big Bang Theory's Simon Helberg played Terry, the schoolhouse nerd who had a crush connected Sam. 

13. Because she was allergic to the nail glue, Jennifer Coolidge had to person Fiona's fake nails taped connected each day. 

14. Then 15, Duff learned however to thrust portion filming the movie, with her acting coach Troy Rowland acting arsenic her driving instructor.

15. Screenwriter Leigh Dunlap admitted it was "a precise bittersweet process" for her arsenic the workplace "hired a cardinal screenwriters" to re-write the film. 

"It's nary amusive to spot what you've written destroyed and there's nary 1 progressive who thinks the finished publication was amended than the original," Dunlap told Slayground. "But that's what the workplace wanted and they ended up with a immense hit, truthful you can't responsibility that."

16. Following successful Duff's solid slippers, Selena Gomez went connected to prima successful the archetypal sequel, with Sofia Carson and Laura Marano starring successful the adjacent 2 follow-ups successful the franchise.