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Maleficent is a live-action adaptation/retelling of 1959's animated film Sleeping Beauty, from the eponymous antagonist. [1] In 2003, [2] during Don Hahn's meeting with Disney's animation department, it was suggested to create an origin film about Maleficent from Disney's animated film Sleeping Beauty in the same vein as then just released Broadway musical Wicked. [3]
With Maleficent distracted, the Queen fires her crossbow. Maleficent saves Aurora, but is struck by the arrow, dissolving into ashes. Devastated, Aurora mourns over Maleficent's death. However, as Aurora's tears fall on the ashes, Maleficent is reborn as a Phoenix. Terrified, Ingrith throws Aurora off the tower to distract Maleficent and runs away.
The character was animated by Marc Davis, who also animated Aurora in the film. She was aptly named "Maleficent" (an adjective derived from the Latin maleficentia, which means "doing evil or harm"), [7] and may have been based on earlier French and European myths and legends about the fairy Mélusine, especially in the 2014 live-action film of the same name. [8]
Fanning played Princess Aurora in the fantasy films Maleficent (2014) and Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (2019), while working in independent films such as Sally Potter's Ginger & Rosa (2012), Nicolas Winding Refn's The Neon Demon (2016), Mike Mills' 20th Century Women (2016), and Coppola's The Beguiled (2017).
Maleficent appears as a non-player character and the main antagonist in the video game Disney Magic Kingdoms, where she casts a curse on the titular Kingdom. [10] Aurora, Prince Phillip, Flora, Fauna and Merryweather appear as playable characters in the main storyline of the game. [11]
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The film marked Howard's first live-action film from Disney, as he previously scored for the Disney animation films Dinosaur (2000), Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001) and Treasure Planet (2002). The score album was released by Walt Disney Records on May 26, 2014.