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Maleficent is a 2014 American fantasy film starring Angelina Jolie as the title character in a live-action retelling of her villainous role in Walt Disney's 1959 animated film Sleeping Beauty, itself an adaptation of Charles Perrault's 1697 fairy tale. The film is directed by Robert Stromberg from a screenplay by Linda Woolverton.
Sleeping Beauty is a 1959 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney based on The Sleeping Beauty by Charles Perrault. In 2019, Sleeping Beauty was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
Sleeping Beauty is a 1959 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by Buena Vista Film Distribution.Based on Charles Perrault's 1697 fairy tale, the film follows Princess Aurora, who was cursed by the evil fairy Maleficent to die from pricking her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel on her 16th birthday.
Maleficent (/ m ə ˈ l ɛ f ɪ s ən t / or / m ə ˈ l ɪ f ɪ s ən t /) is a fictional character who first appears in Walt Disney Productions' animated film, Sleeping Beauty (1959). Maleficent is the self-proclaimed "Mistress of All Evil" based on the evil fairy godmother character in Charles Perrault's fairy tale Sleeping Beauty, [3] as well as the villainess who appears in the Brothers ...
As Merryweather is about to give Aurora the gift of happiness, [1] Maleficent makes her appearance and curses the princess to die when she pricks her finger on a spinning wheel's spindle before sunset on her sixteenth birthday. Merryweather softens the curse so that instead of dying, Aurora will only sleep until she is awakened by true love's kiss.
“Sleeping Beauty,” the film that inspired the first “Maleficent,” never got any sort of sequel from Disney — unlike, say, “The Little Mermaid,” which got both a sequel and prequel ...
The rest of the cast was added/confirmed in May 2018, with filming beginning that month at Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire, England, lasting through August. Maleficent: Mistress of Evil premiered in Los Angeles on September 30, 2019, and was released in the United States theatrically on October 18 by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures.
differences between maleficent and sleeping beauty Angelina Jolie’s Maleficent claims to be a deeper look at the story behind Disney’sSleeping Beauty; showing a more sympathetic, nuanced ...