Amongst the bunch of new projects that Tim Burton is recently attached to, one of them is making a live-action feature based on Maleficent from Disney’s 1959 fairy tale “Sleeping Beauty”. The movie would tell the classic fairy tale from the point of view of the self-proclaimed “Mistress of All Evil.”
“Alice in Wonderland” screenwriter Linda Woolverton will write the script for Disney. “Maleficent” might reunite Woolverton with Burton. Woolverton’s credits also include Disney’s Beauty and the Beast and The Lion King.
Do not hold your breath though on this movie getting made at the earliest within five years. Burton is in talks to remake a few films, the full length “Frankenweenie”, the stop action “Addams Family” and “Dark Shadows” with Johnny Depp. This film could be a long way away.
