Adding a little Aussie flavor to the British dominated MALEFICENT is Disney, tapping youngster Brenton Thwaites as the prince in the live-action take on the evil witch. Angelina Jolie (below) plays the title role, likely a key reason we feel even a modicum of obligation to report on it.
Brenton (above), who has a Lifetime BLUE LAGOON movie out next month, also joins Juno Temple, Miranda Richardson, Kenneth Cranham , Sam Riley, Elle Fanning and Sharlto Copley in the Robert Stromberg adaptation. Linda Woolverton, a Dinsey stalwart, wrote the script.
Filming this summer in London:
MALEFICENT tells the backstory of Sleeping Beauty and why the evil fairy Maleficent cursed Princess Aurora in the first place.
See Angie go evil March 14, 2013.