Sci-Fi Film and Television Developments

Maleficent

1/14/13 - Disney has moved the released date to July 2, 2014. 

6/20/12 - new image released

5/17/12 - Juno Temple is joining the cast of Maleficent, Disney’s live-action retelling of the Sleeping Beauty fairy tale and releases March 14, 2014, according to The Hollywood Reporter.  Angelina Jolie is playing the title character in the fantasy that tells the story from the point of view of the fairy-witch who cursed Aurora to a permanent sleep on her 16th birthday. Robert Stromberg is directing.  Elle Fanning already is on board as Aurora and Sharlto Copley is Stefan, the half-human and half-fairy bastard son of the human king. Also in the cast are Imelda Staunton, Miranda Richardson, Kenneth Cranham, Sam Riley and Lesley Manville.  Temple would join Staunton and Manville as the three pixie fairies in the classic fairy tale who are tasked with taking care of Aurora in the cottage in the woods. Temple will play Thistletwit, who -- like the other pixies, Knotgrass and Flittle -- is neglectful and superficial.  The movie is shooting this summer in London.

4/9/12 – Variety reported that Disney will release Maleficent on March 14, 2014.  The live-action fantasy pic stars Angelina Jolie in the title role as Disney's ultimate villain and explores the origins of the evil fairy and what led her to curse Princess Aurora in Disney's animated classic Sleeping Beauty.  Elle Fanning is in talks to play the princess.  Robert Stromberg is making his directorial debut on the film penned by Linda Woolverton.   Joe Roth is producing.

3/24/10 - Disney and screenwriter Linda Woolverton are teaming to bring to the big screen Maleficent, a live-action take on the evil queen in the 1959 animated classic Sleeping Beauty, according to The Hollywood Reporter.  Maleficent might reunite Woolverton with Tim Burton, however no deal has been made.  Maleficent is a tall green-skinned woman with horns who can morph into several forms, including a terrifying black-and-purple dragon.  Woolverton's Maleficent would tell the classic fairy tale from the point of view of the self-proclaimed Mistress of All Evil, offering a new take on a classic tale as the screenwriter did with Lewis Carroll's Alice.

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