Angelina Jolie Opens Up About Maleficent: "We Respected the Classic"
Posted on Mon Apr 21st, 2014 10:41am PDT By X17 Staff
We can't wait for Maleficent!
Angelina Jolie is bad to the bone in the her movie, Maleficent, and we are just as excited about it as she is.
"We've respected the classic, we've tried to bring you what you love about the story," said 38-year-old Oscar winner in a behind-the-scenes interview. "We also hope to bring a world that you've never seen before. It's a very beautiful story, and i think it is very different from what people are going to expect."
The film is a re-imagining of Disney's classic 1959 animated film, Sleeping Beauty, as told from the point of view of the horned villainess.
"It's a reinvention, not just a retelling of the same story," says the movie's screenwriter Linda Woolverton. "[We] created a past for her that lead to the moment in which she curses Aurora, then takes us past that moment from Maleficent's point of view."
Maleficent hits theaters on May 30.