Maleficent - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

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Fan of Maleficent or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to Maleficent

[leo]

This film had the largest budget ever for a first-time director, Robert Stromberg, surpassing another Disney film, TRON: Legacy (2010).

[richard]

All the actors and actresses in Maleficent were partly chosen to be in the movie based on their uncanny resemblances and/or likeness to their respective character counterparts in Disney's Sleeping Beauty (1959).

[albert]

Maleficent says to Aurora, "Hello, Beastie"; which Jack Sparrow also says to the Kraken in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006).

[linda]

Kristen Stewart was considered for the role of Aurora.

[kim]

On the second day of the Disney D23 Expo at the Anaheim Convention Center, Saturday, 10 August 2013, Angelina Jolie admitted that she scared little kids while in costume on the set of Maleficent, with one kid actually saying, "Mommy, please get the mean witch to stop talking to me." She adds that her daughter, Vivienne Jolie-Pitt, who played young Aurora, was the only child who was not scared of her.

[jessie]

Angelina Jolie's Disney debut.

[alyssa]

In the mid-2010s, Disney began releasing live-action adaptations of their classic animated films. "Cinderella" (2015) is usually described as the "first" live-action remake of an animated Disney film, though many fans and critics argue that "Maleficent" (2014), a remake of "Sleeping Beauty" (1959) from the villain's point of view, deserves this distinction. However, "101 Dalmations" (1996) was released almost 20 years before either of these films, and is actually the first true live-action adaptation of an animated Disney film.

[dustin]

The board game played by the three fairies is an actual game called nine-men's morris, which dates from ancient times and was very popular in medieval England.

[fred]

On May 12, 2009, it was revealed that Brad Bird was developing a live-action motion picture based on Walt Disney's Sleeping Beauty (1959), retold from the point of view of Maleficent with Angelina Jolie starring as Maleficent. In January 2010, it was rumored that Tim Burton was to direct the film. Reports surfaced online in May 2011 stating that Burton had left the project to focus on his other upcoming projects; Disney began to look for a replacement director, with David Yates being cited as a potential candidate due to his experience with the fantasy genre, having directed the final four Harry Potter films. On January 6, 2012, Disney announced that Robert Stromberg would direct the film.

[melinda]

Logan Marshall-Green, George Blagden, Gael García Bernal, and Jim Sturgess were considered for the role that eventually went to Sam Riley.

[gabriel]

Vivienne Jolie-Pitt, who portrays Princess Aurora as a young girl, is the daughter of Angelina Jolie (who plays Maleficent in the movie) and Brad Pitt.

[violet]

Maleficent's crow companion is named Diaval (pronounced similarly to 'devil') and in the Disney cartoon version of Sleeping Beauty (1959), Maleficent's crow companion is named Diablo which means the same. In Irish lore crows are associated with the winged battle goddesses the Morrigan (they sound similar, as well, to Maleficent). In almost all other lore crows are associated with death, the dead, and trickery. Thus, they can be "devilish" birds.

[wesley]

Angelina Jolie admitted that she still has the pair of horns at home.

[amber]

The last major film of special makeup effects artist Rick Baker. After this film, he retired from the industry in 2015 due to lack of good work.

[bryan]

Angelina Jolie was definitely interested to be in the movie to begin with. She repeatedly stated it was because 1.) she grew up on Disney movies as a child, especially Sleeping Beauty (1959); she was quite fond of the character Maleficent: "Since I was a little girl, Maleficent was always my favorite," Jolie said. "I was terrified of her, but I was also drawn to her. I wanted to know more about her. She had this elegance and grace, yet she was wonderfully, deliciously cruel," 2.) her children wanted her to be in the movie, and she wanted to make a movie they could see her in, 3.) the beauty, warmth, complexity, and strong intelligence of the script, and 4.) she was very impressed with Maleficent's characterization for this film. In fact, Jolie also served as an executive producer on the film.

[linda]

Vivienne Jolie-Pitt was chosen to play young Aurora because the director knew she would not be frightened by Maleficent because she knew it was her mother

[ivan]

Patrick Stewart was considered for a role.

[ray]

Anya Taylor-Joy auditioned for the role of Aurora.