By Greg Reifsteck
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Fairy tale movies have been hot at the box office lately, and no film has bigger anticipation behind it than Disney’s Maleficent, starring the owner of everyone’s favorite Oscar red carpet legs Angelina Jolie, as Disney’s most popular and beloved villain from the 1959 classic Sleeping Beauty.
Disney leaked this image just this morning! The film began production on June 13. It is scheduled for a March 14, 2014 release.
This live-action film is the untold story that reveals the events that hardened her heart and drove her to curse the baby Aurora.
I think the casting is brilliant. Look at those devilish eyes! The opening weekend of the film is sure to be enormous. And it is good to see the sexier have of Bradgelina is finally starring in something legit (unlike her slumming in the guilty pleasure Salt or the phoned-in excuse for a vacation The Tourist)
Maleficent co-stars are Sharlto Copley (District 9), Elle Fanning (Super 8), Sam Riley (On the Road), Imelda Staunton (Vera Drake), Miranda Richardson (The Hours), Juno Temple (Atonement) and Lesley Manville (Secrets & Lies).
The creative pedigree behind this film is promising as well. Two-time Oscar®-winning production designer Robert Stromberg (Avatar, Alice in Wonderland), in his directorial debut, and produced by Joe Roth, Maleficent is written by Linda Woolverton (The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast) and executive produced by Angelina Jolie, Don Hahn, Matt Smith and Palak Patel.
Add to the mix two-time Oscar®-nominated costume designer Anna B. Sheppard (Schindler’s List, The Pianist) and seven-time Academy Award-winning makeup artist Rick Baker (Planet of the Apes, Men in Black) and you have a recipe for success.
