Angelina Jolie Brings Life to 'Terrifying' Maleficent In New Trailer [WATCH]
Angelina Jolie breathes life to Maleficent, and the result will bring you chills.
Disney released the newest trailer for their upcoming film "Maleficent," a retelling of the film company's iconic animated film "Sleeping Beauty," where Brad Pitt's fiancee plays the titular role.
According to Disney, "Maleficent" is "Sleeping Beauty" told from the "perspective of Maleficent and looks at the events that hardened her heart and drove her to curse young Princess Aurora."
The trailer includes clips from the original 1959 version as an indication that the live-action version is told through the eyes of the fairy tale's antagonist. Jolie is also shown in Maleficent's iconic black horns, sharp cheekbones and vampire-like lip color.
It also features Jolie as she utters some chills-inducing lines as Maleficent, such as *spoiler alert* "I, too, shall bestow a gift upon the child," and "Aurora, there is an evil in this world. I cannot keep you from it."
Various entertainment sites laud her "strangely stunning" yet "terrifying" transformation. Mail Online tauts the Jolie-to-Maleficent transformation as "making her look ever so slightly like a plastic surgeon's botched creation," while Us Magazine thinks Jolie is "convincing" as Mistress of All Evil.
Jolie once told Entertainment Weekly that the film's treatment to Maleficent is both sympathetic and true to her villainous nature.
"I hope in the end you see a woman who is capable of being many things, and just because she protects herself and is aggressive, it doesn't mean she can't have other [warmer] qualities. You have to figure out the puzzle of what she is," Jolie says.
The one-minute-30-second video is the second trailer following the teaser trailer released in November. Prior to that, Disney released the first poster for the movie which features the first look on Jolie as the titular role.
"Maleficent" also stars Elle Fanning as Princess Aurora AKA Sleeping Beauty, Brenton Thwaites as Prince Philip and Sharlto Copley as King Stefan. It will be out in US theaters on May 30 US theaters and on June 19 in Australia.