Screenwriter Linda Woolverton ("Alice In Wonderland") is tailoring her screenplay of Disney's developing "Maleficent" live-action feature (focusing on the 'evil fairy queen' of "Sleeping Beauty"), as a starring vehicle for actress Angelina Jolie.
According to Disney, Robert Stromberg, the Oscar winning Art Director of "Avatar" and "Alice In Wonderland" will direct.
In "Sleeping Beauty", 'Maleficent', (aka 'evil-doer') is the self-proclaimed "Mistress of All Evil" who curses the infant 'Princess Aurora' to "prick her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel and die" before the sun sets on her sixteenth birthday, after not being invited to the baby's christening.
Often viewed as the most powerful and sinister of Disney's occult villains, Maleficent is an interpretation of the 'wicked fairy godmother' from the original "Sleeping Beauty" fairy tale, appearing as a tall, slender, pale green skinned woman with a narrow face and prominent chin.