So Tim Burton seems to be moving full steam ahead on his latest project, “Maleficent,” which is a revisionist and live/action take on the “Sleeping Beauty” tale.
Earlier this week it was announced that Disney and “Alice In Wonderland” scribe Linda Woolverton were teaming up for this project that could potentially involve Burton as the director.
Now the L.A. Times is reporting that the project may have even have more momentum as Angelia Jolie could come on board as the titular character — essentially the evil witch antagonist in the Disney’s animated 1959’s “Sleeping Beauty.”
No word on whether the project would be in 3D or not but considering how well the turd that was “Alice In Wonderland” did regardless of its lack of, well anything remotely of value, we’re sure Burton, Woolverton and Disney are seriously considering using the tool again (or at least, you know, bumping it up to 3D, it’s much cheaper that way and the pleebs in the audience are apparently stupid enough to pay the exorbitant fees regardless).
However, LAT says Burton’s involvement right now is still unclear, as he’s choosing between this and at least three other projects with include, “Dark Shadows” with Johnny Depp which at one point was set to shoot this fall, a recently announced 3D “Addams Family” project — which Deadline Hollywood apparently had to be all insecure about — and or a feature length version of “Frankenweenie.”
We’ll just have to see what happens. Personally, though Depp and Burton do need a break, “Dark Shadows” sound macabre enough that it could just possibly break that poor quality curse that has chased them around for a while now (though yes, “Sweeney Todd” wasn’t terrible).