Maleficent (/məˈlɛfɪsənt/) is a 2014 dark fantasy adventure film directed by Robert Stromberg from a screenplay by Linda Woolverton. Starring Angelina Jolie as the eponymous Disney villainess character, the film is a live-action re-imagining of Walt Disney's 1959 animated film Sleeping Beauty, and portrays the story from the perspective of the antagonist, Maleficent.
Principal photography took place between June and October 2012. The film was released by Walt Disney Pictures in the UK on May 28, 2014 and in the U.S. on May 30, 2014 in the Disney Digital 3D, RealD 3D, and IMAX 3D formats, as well as in conventional theaters. The film was met with mixed reviews from critics.
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An elderly woman narrates and tells the story of Maleficent, a young and powerful fairy living in The Moors, a magical realm bordering a human kingdom. As a young girl, she falls in love with a human peasant boy named Stefan, whose infatuation with Maleficent is overshadowed by his ambition to become king. As they grow older, the two drift apart until one day Stefan stops coming to see her. After Maleficent defeats the current king in battle during an attack on The Moors, the king becomes fatally ill and his underlings are tasked with avenging his death, the king promising that whoever kills Maleficent will become the new king. Stefan sees his pathway to kingship open, and decides to go after Maleficent. Visiting her at night, Stefan drugs her to sleep, but can't bring himself to kill her. Instead he burns off her wings using iron (a lethal substance to faeries) and presents them to the king as proof she was slain. The king mounts the wings in a display case and dies, but not before anointing Stefan as the new king. Heartbroken by Stefan's betrayal and the loss of her wings, Maleficent begins building a darker kingdom in the faerie realm. She takes a raven, Diaval, as her one companion and confidant, constantly shape-shifting him from man to bird and other animals.
CAST
- Angelina Jolie as Maleficent[5]
- Ella Purnell and Isobelle Molloy as young Maleficent[6][7][8]
- Elle Fanning as Princess Aurora[5]
- Vivienne Jolie-Pitt[9] and Eleanor Worthington Cox[10] as young Princess Aurora
- Janet McTeer as elderly Aurora (the film's narrator)[11]
- Sharlto Copley as King Stefan[5]
- Michael Higgins as young Stefan[12]
- Sam Riley as Diaval – a raven shapeshifter and Maleficent's confidant.[5]
- Imelda Staunton as Knotgrass - a pixie charged with raising Aurora in secret until her 16th birthday.[5]
- Juno Temple as Thistlewit - a pixie charged with raising Aurora in secret until her 16th birthday.[13]
- Lesley Manville as Flittle - a pixie charged with raising Aurora in secret until her 16th birthday.[5]
- Brenton Thwaites as Phillip – a young prince who falls in love with Aurora while traveling through the forest.[14]
- Kenneth Cranham as King Henry – a monarch determined to conquer the forest realm.[5][15]
- Hannah New as Leila - King Henry's daughter who marries Stefan, and Princess Aurora's mother
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