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Angelina Jolie Discusses ‘Reinvention’ of Disney's ‘Maleficent’ in New Preview (Video)

Angelina Jolie Discusses ‘Reinvention’ of Disney's ‘Maleficent’ in New Preview (Video)

Angelina Jolie promises Disney's “Maleficent” will be “very different from what people are going to expect” in a new behind-the-scenes featurette.

“We've respected the classic, we've tried to bring you what we love about this story. We also hope to bring a world you have never seen before,” Jolie, who plays the titular wicked witch, says in the newest preview (above). “It's a very beautiful story, and I think it's very different from what people are going to expect.”

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Screenwriter Linda Woolverton (“The Lion King”) stresses that the May 30 release isn't “just a retelling” of Disney's classic animated fairy tale, “Sleeping Beauty,” it's a “reinvention” that allows audiences to see “Maleficent's point of view” before and after she curses Princess Aurora (Elle Fanning).

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Robert Stromberg, a two-time Oscar-winning production and visual effects designer, made his directorial debut with “Maleficent,” which also stars Juno Temple, Brenton Thwaites and Sharlto Copley.

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