Angelina Jolie in Talks to Play Disney Villain Maleficent

[TheatreDiva90016]

Well, when they are dealing with prosthetic pieces that are so delicate, I think she would want the very best. Which is who she got.

And judging by this picture, I think I was right when I said she's going to have horns!

[TheatreDiva90016]

[beautywickedlover]

Jolie's 4-year-old daughter, Vivienne, will play Young Aurora in the film very briefly.






Angelina Jolie's daughter to play young Sleeping Beauty in 'Maleficent'

[beautywickedlover]

In case no one already knew, Jolie's other children will appear in the film.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2012/oct/24/angelina-jolie-children-maleficent-action

Also, James Newton Howard will write the score for the film.

http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/BatFreak/news/?a=69298

[beautywickedlover]

The film will now be released in July 2014. 'The Muppets 2' has taken the film's March 2014 release.


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[beautywickedlover]

Jolie appeared at the D23 Expo and she talks about the film and what it's like to be a Disney villain.


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[beautywickedlover]

Here is the logo.


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[TheatreDiva90016]

Needs more purple...

[Musical Master]

Well I'm witholding judgement on this one untill I see the movie when it comes out.

So far, the pros: Paul Dini is writing the script with Linda Woolverton so I guess they won't do to bad on this one.

The casting of Jolie as Maleficent is quite excellent and I heard from reports of people who saw some footage at D23, they say that she's got the role down, some thought she sounded ALMOST like Miss Audley (the original Maleficent).

The only con that's going on was that there was a leaked script (possibly by Woolverton) that has gotten alot of people infuriated and angry, but again, I'm holding judgement.

This movie may be better than Tim Burton's Wonderland disaster that's for sure...

[Jungle Red]

And Woolverton wrote that script too. I'm beginning to wonder if she just got lucky with Beauty and the Beast.

I see that she also wrote The Lion King, which I had forgotten about. While it's a good movie, the script isn't nearly as strong as Beauty and the Beast.

Then there was the misfire known as Lestat...

[JerseyGirl2]

I'm withholding judgement until Diva sees it. Then I will know if it's truly worthy.

[beautywickedlover]

The discussion of the film at D23 begins at 8:20 in this video and Jolie appears at 8:39 and talks about her love for Disney and doing the film.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3UqCMJ3-Sc

[beautywickedlover]

Here is the official synopsis:

"“Maleficent” is the untold story of Disney’s most iconic villain from the 1959 classic “Sleeping Beauty.” A beautiful, pure-hearted young woman, Maleficent has an idyllic life growing up in a peaceable forest kingdom, until one day when an invading army threatens the harmony of the land. Maleficent rises to be the land’s fiercest protector, but she ultimately suffers a ruthless betrayal—an act that begins to turn her pure heart to stone. Bent on revenge, Maleficent faces an epic battle with the invading king’s successor and, as a result, places a curse upon his newborn infant Aurora. As the child grows, Maleficent realizes that Aurora holds the key to peace in the kingdom—and perhaps to Maleficent’s true happiness as well."


Official Synopsis For Angelina Jolie's MALEFICENT

[BroomstickBoy]

I want to see the footage they showed at D23. I want to see her in action!!!

[TheatreDiva90016]

You and me both.

[Jordan Catalano]

That synopsis sounds like bullShit. Sorry, but I don't want to "understand" her and feel for her. If I'm going to learn her back story, I want to know how she became a F*CKed up woman who sold her soul to Satan. Trying to humanize Disney's most horrible villan is like seeing Freddy and Jason in diapers playing with Duplos.

[best12bars]

The synopsis sounds like they took the entire conceptual theme of Wicked and placed it on the Sleeping Beauty story.

[Jordan Catalano]

Exactly. Will we see her picking out clothes for her first day of school in Hell?

[best12bars]

Well, she's not really evil, you see. She was wronged. Now she will fight to do "good," because Aurora holds the key to peace in the land and her own salvation.

Will she save her in time? Can she defy gravity?

Maleificent, the superhero!

[Jordan Catalano]

Oh that's right. And Philip is in the wrong for killing her and he'll be arrested for murder.

[StageManager2]

Trying to humanize Disney's most horrible villan is like seeing Freddy and Jason in diapers playing with Duplos.

Rob Zombie tried that with his Halloween remake 6 years ago and it was a big misfire, IMO.

P.S. I agree the premise sounds like a Wicked knockoff. Even the title Maleficent (though it's the witch's name in the original animated film) means the same thing: "Harmful or evil in intent or effect."

[best12bars]

Maybe it will work, and maybe it's a good story.

But with Oz the Great and Terrible (Disney's Wicked story of how the witches became the witches, thinly disguised as how the Wizard became the Wizard) and now Maleficent: Wicked II, the mighty mouse house has done everything it can possibly do to steal Oz away from Universal and make sure the actual, eventual film version of Wicked comes in a distant third.

They're trying really, really hard to make that happen.

[TheatreDiva90016]

I have a feeling it's going to be a great film to watch with the volume turned off.

[Jordan Catalano]

And while playing a bootleg of WICKED backwards.

[BroomstickBoy]

It'll look, sound and come across like an album where a musical theatre performer goes mainstream. They look good, they sound good (I want to hear her Maleficent voice), but the material is absolute shi+.

[Visceral_Fella]

That synopsis is terrible.