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A MALEFICENT Sequel Is Spreading Its Wings…

 

MALEFICENT

MALEFICENT sure was a gorgeous film - intricately designed and beautifully photographed.  

While I didn’t mind its somewhat revisionist interpretation of it its title character, the picture’s logic gaps, missed opportunities, and somewhat flaccid execution (literally) put me to sleep on several occasions. 

As such, I’m not particularly enthused by the notion of a sequel ramping up.  But, fortunately for them,  Hollywood doesn’t measure future box office opportunity by my sometimes unreliable attention span.  MALEFICENT pulled down over $758 million in global box office - a sum which I believe does not include home video and ancillary marketing.  Thus, I fully understand why another MALEFICENT would prove an irresistible target to Disney. 

Which is exactly the case. 

Per THIS piece at Deadline…

The studio has engaged Linda Woolverton to write the sequel, and I’m told the studio is keeping Jolie in the loop and that the sequel will be written for her to reprise.

Wolverton wrote the first film, and adapted BEAUTY AND THE BEAST as a live-action film that we’ll see in 2017 from director Bill Condon.

 

 

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Glen Oliver

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