How Maleficent: Mistress of Evil Builds on the Original
Don Kaye Oct 16, 2019
The director of Maleficent: Mistress of Evil says he wanted to make his own movie but keep what audiences loved about the first one.
It was five years ago that Disney released Maleficent, a new live-action take on the classic Sleeping Beauty fairy tale told from the point of view of the seemingly wicked title character. With Angelina Jolie (Eternals) starring, and the Disney marketing might behind it, it was no surprise that Maleficent was a hit, but its $758 million worldwide gross was startling all the same.
With a sequel being inevitable, Disney set out to move beyond the well-worn fable and into an original story. Maleficent: Mistress of Evil finds Maleficent and Princess Aurora (Teen Spirit's Elle Fanning) presiding over their relatively peaceful Moors and its population of magical creatures. But a marriage proposal to Aurora from Prince Phillip (Harris Dickinson) threatens to upend their lives as Phillip’s mother,...
The director of Maleficent: Mistress of Evil says he wanted to make his own movie but keep what audiences loved about the first one.
It was five years ago that Disney released Maleficent, a new live-action take on the classic Sleeping Beauty fairy tale told from the point of view of the seemingly wicked title character. With Angelina Jolie (Eternals) starring, and the Disney marketing might behind it, it was no surprise that Maleficent was a hit, but its $758 million worldwide gross was startling all the same.
With a sequel being inevitable, Disney set out to move beyond the well-worn fable and into an original story. Maleficent: Mistress of Evil finds Maleficent and Princess Aurora (Teen Spirit's Elle Fanning) presiding over their relatively peaceful Moors and its population of magical creatures. But a marriage proposal to Aurora from Prince Phillip (Harris Dickinson) threatens to upend their lives as Phillip’s mother,...
- 10/16/2019
- Den of Geek
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