Elle is a prequel to which film franchise?

Elle is a prequel to the Legally Blonde film franchise. The series follows Elle Woods as a high-school student, before the events that made her a Harvard Law student in the 2001 film.

The original Legally Blonde starred Reese Witherspoon as Elle, a fashion-minded sorority president who follows her former boyfriend to Harvard and discovers her own talent for law. Elle moves the character’s story earlier, with Lexi Minetree portraying the teenage version of Woods.

A common mix-up is confusing the series with Legally Blondes, a 2009 direct-to-video spin-off about Elle’s cousins. Elle is instead directly connected to the central Legally Blonde continuity and serves as an origin story for its best-known character.