Tim Burton's MALEFICENT (yeah that villian from Sleepy Beauty)

[Emperor]

Tim Burton is developing another classic Disney fairy tale in a quasi Live Actiony kinda way. It seems that Tim has a hankering for SLEEPING BEAUTY... but not really... You see, he's going to tell the story from Maleficent's point of view. In fact, it'll be called MALEFICENT.

 

She was always the most interesting character in that story, but we never knew why she hated those three little fairy wenches... or what indignity she suffered at the hands of Aurora's parents. Yeah, I'm on board... if only it ends with Maleficent with a sword in her heart in dragon form. Cuz that'll rule. Think about how long this plotline was carried out over. She has quite a tale to tell. Let's see where it pops up in Burton's filmography. We're hearing that DARK SHADOWS is stumbling a bit... Let's see what Tim does next, he has some interesting choices before him.

[Cadsuane]

Yes! Maleficent is one of my favorites, and Tim Burton does neat things!!

[Emperor]

I am excited for any movie done from the villian's pov.

 

This reminds me of Wicked...

[Cadsuane]

Hopefully they won't turn it into a cheesy musical.  :P

[Krakalakachkn]

This has to be one of the best movie ideas I've heard since Legion!

 

I've always loved Burton's style of animation; I have high expectations for him creating a Disney movie that's not Nightmare Before Christmas

[Far Dareis Mai]

I'm also quite excited about this, though I sort of wish he would tell the tale more like he is telling Alice in Wonderland, by using real people and such. But either way, Maleficient is my second favorite Disney Villain.

[Emperor]

Do you mean live action... or... like... "Hi, I am maleficent and I live in New York City".

[reyler]

This has potential to be awesome, although I'm worried that it will be exactly like Wicked in making the villain sympathetic. Some villains should never be sympathetic.

[Emperor]

I look at it as more misunderstood.  History is written by the victors and sometimes that means the losers are painted as villians. 

[Krakalakachkn]

Even as director Tim Burton continues to work on the live-action Alice in Wonderland, Harry Knowles of AICN is reporting that Burton and Disney are considering following this remake of Disney's animated movie from 1951 with a remake of the one from 1959 (and the last produced by Walt Disney himself): Sleeping Beauty. In a twist that seems quite like what the Broadway musical (and upcoming movie adaptation) Wicked did with The Wizard of Oz, Burton's plan is to call the movie Maleficent and focus the narrative on the Dark Fairy, rather than on Briar Rose and the Three Good Fairies. If Burton does proceed with another live-action remake for Disney, the next question would be who would play Maleficent, and the obvious answer seems to be that Burton would be likely to push for Helena Bonham Carter, his wife and frequent costar of his movies. The other obvious question, along that line of thinking, is where would Burton's other extremely prolific actor, Johnny Depp, might fit into such a retelling of Sleeping Beauty, with the romantic interest of Prince Phillip seeming unlikely, given Depp's age. The reason Maleficent is being tagged as a Rotten Idea is that the notion of reimagining the Dark Fairy as the center of her own movie does seem to this writer as a bit of a reaction to Universal's plans for the Wicked movie, which is currently stuck in development hell.

[Krakalakachkn]

Tim Burton is no longer directing

[Emperor]

Yep I hear they are going after Yates (Harry Potter films) to direct.

[Krakalakachkn]

Now Aronofsky is being floated around as a possible directer. It sounds like Disney is more interested in him than Yates.

[Silver]

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