Today, The Walt Disney Studios announced that production has begun on the highly anticipated live action film Maleficant, starring Academy Award©-winning actress Angelina Jolie.
The film will tell the backstory of Sleeping Beauty’s villain, and explains what led to her bitterness and her reasons for ill will toward the Princess Aurora, which culminates in her placing a curse on the infant child.
Directed by Robert Stromberg, who is a two-time Oscar© Winner in the area of production design (Avatar and Alice in Wonderland), the screenplay is written by Disney veteran Linda Woolverton, …