Angelina Jolie has confirmed @ the Berlin International Film Festival February 11, that her next film will be the Disney fantasy movie "Maleficent", to be directed by "Avatar" production designer Robert Stromberg.
Jolie is reportedly quite fond of writer Linda Woolverton's kid-friendly take on the classic "Sleeping Beauty" fairy tale, with Woolverton ("Alice In Wonderland") having tailored the screenplay to accomodate the 'Lara Croft' star as the 'evil fairy queen'.
In the original "Sleeping Beauty"story, 'Maleficent', (aka 'evil-doer') is the self-proclaimed "Mistress of All Evil" who curses the infant 'Princess Aurora' to "prick her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel and die" before the sun sets on her sixteenth birthday, after not being invited to the baby's christening.
Often viewed as the most powerful and sinister of Disney's occult villains, Maleficent is an interpretation of the 'wicked fairy godmother' from the original "Sleeping Beauty" fairy tale, appearing as a tall, slender, pale green skinned woman with a narrow face and prominent chin.