After her successful directorial debut with 'In the Land of Blood and Honey', a movie that was a quasi-critical success (I haven't seen it yet but I heard very mixed thoughts about it), Angelina Jolie lands back in the acting arena as 'Maleficent' in the movie of the same name.
For the sake of the noobs about the film, 'Maleficent' is basically a different take on the 'Sleeping Beauty' fairy tale. It's becoming more of a mainstream trend now: resurfacing once submerged fairy tales and then revamping them as dark-themed live actions ('Snow White and the Huntsman', does it ring a bell?). 'Maleficent' is the same narrative only different because told in the villain's perspective.
Recently, actually not too recent, days even. A movie still from the Maleficent movie was released to the triple w. Here's the one-frame look-ahead.
This particular still we think is intensely interesting giving us a hunch that Jolie won't be the Disney type of villain; but then again, we can only have our fingers crossed because this movie is actually from Walt Disney pictures. Nonetheless, we hope that she isn't the satiric villain type like the attack that Julia Roberts used in the hit-or-miss fantasy/comedy 'Mirror Mirror'. I personally think that following the tracks of Charlize Theron as Ravenna in the 'Snow White and the Huntsman' film will be good for both her and this anticipated Disney flick.
The FilmPolice team is however remaining faithful that this is going to be an excellent movie let alone Angelina Jolie is perfect for the role (that again brings us back on which take that she does with the character). But ultimately, Jolie is a very good actor so we believe that handling this kind of film will be chicken soup for her.
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