It's funny how such a big deal is made out of this corny looking shyt when Secretary pulled this off to perfection a full decade ago.
Nothing new under the sun. Its about repacking it just a bit to make it new.
Can't tell me there weren't vampire books about a human girl and a vampire boy before Twilight. Vampire Diaries came out in 1991, so I knew Stephanie Meyer read those books before she wrote Twilight
I know she read Anne Rice's novels too. She just flipped it just enough.
Hunger Games ripped off of Battle Royale but, flipped it just enough to make it new.
The Worst Witch came out 25 years before Harry Potter. JK Rowling took that template (magical boarding school), added more action, made it darker and voila! Billion dollar franchise.
The movie looks corny and its aged horribly. But I see elements all through it that Harry Potter took