By Jason Merritt/Getty Images. By now we've heard why exactly Angelina Jolie decided to cast her young daughter with Brad Pitt, Vivienne Jolie-Pitt, as a young Princess Aurora in the upcoming Maleficent motion picture.
'The Baby Aurora' | Sleeping Beauty - YouTube. Baby Aurora's wilful and playful nature is clear as she sends Miss Maddox (Aurora's nanny) and other royal staff scurrying around after her becoming instantly well behaved as the King and Queen enter!
Maleficent confirms that Aurora will grow in grace and beauty, "beloved by all who know her", but as revenge for not being invited by the kingdom, she curses Aurora so that before the sun sets on her sixteenth birthday, she will prick her finger on a spinning wheel's spindle and die.
The irony is that Aurora was taken from her mother to protect her from Maleficent, but, to Aurora, Leila is simply the woman who gave birth to her while she refers to Maleficent as her Fairy Godmother.
Aurora was never related to Maleficent by blood in the live action movie. She was daughter of King Stefan and Queen Leah. So she was a princess by birth.
Shortly after Stefan is done with his chat with Maleficent's wings, Queen Leila dies of an illness, and she never gets the chance to meet her daughter, who on the other hand is unaware of her identity and was not given the chance to learn about her mother due to Stefan's obsession causing him to neglect her as well.
This means the earliest likely release date for Maleficent 3 would be 2026 or 2027. This comes down to the franchise's rather ambitious production scope. The second film came with all the thrills of an epic fantasy, and it's likely that Disney would want to top this—and that takes time to achieve.
Diaval is the tritagonist of the 2014 live action Disney film, Maleficent and also its 2019 sequel Maleficent: Mistress of Evil. He's Maleficent's friend, partner, loyal servant, and pet raven. After being saved by Maleficent in his raven form, he agreed to be her servant and act as her "wings."
The Sleeping Beauty character had been put into an enchanted sleep by flax in her finger. Instead of waking from the prince's kiss, she wakes up when she gives birth to her twin children, and one of the babies gets the flax out of her finger. The prince later returns, and they get married.
Maleficent is soft-spoken, proper, and elegant and has two possible motivations for her crimes, either out of pride, considering she curses Aurora because Stefan didn't invite her to the christening, or she is simply a monster who enjoys being evil.
She was offered the chance to play a young Aurora in her mom's 2014 film Maleficent, but she turned it down. "I asked Shiloh about being Aurora, and she laughed in my face," Jolie told Elle. "She said she'd be a horned creature." Her younger sister, Vivienne, took the role instead.
Maleficent is based on the evil fairy godmother from Charles Perrault's fairy tale Sleeping Beauty. In Perrault's version, she's an evil, old fairy who was left out of the princess' christening because she hadn't left her tower in years, and most of the kingdom thought she was dead.
Angelina Jolie has revealed the reason why her daughter Vivienne, 5, was cast in her new film Maleficent. The 38-year-old admitted she didn't set out for Vivienne to be an actor.
Even though Maleficent is a heroine, she is still presented as a satanic figure. Her iconic horns (which Disney artist Marc Davis, who designed Maleficent, says were inspired by the traditional look of the devil, to “frighten everybody half to death”) are present even before Stefan's betrayal.
After Maleficent undoes her own curse on Aurora, she realizes that her father does not have any feelings towards her, helps Maleficent by freeing her wings. After Stefan died, Aurora became the new queen of both the human kingdom and the Moors finally uniting them.
Sometime later, Aurora gives birth to a son who is also given the name Phillip. She goes to parenting classes with Snow White and Cinderella, it is also revealed that she is still trying to understand the ways of the modern world.
