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Whether you liked 2014's Maleficent or not, you can't deny that it was one of the few Disney live-action remakes to actually try something different. But he asked her to turn it up a notch.

"We went many, many rounds on this. © 2020 USA TODAY, a division of Gannett Satellite Information Network, LLC. Peace breaks out like flowers as Ingrith's dark plans and dark heart are revealed. It's set "several years" after the first movie, and continues to "explore the complex relationship between the horned fairy and the soon-to-be Queen" as they "form new alliances and face new adversaries". In the reimagining, Maleficent (Angelina Jolie) still cursed Aurora (Elle Fanning) to fall into a deep sleep on her 16th birthday. Michelle Pfeiffer and Robert Lindsay are on board as new characters Queen Ingrith and King John, but it's unclear whether they're from another kingdom or something's happened in the years since Maleficent that means Aurora is no longer Queen. Ingrith is revealed to be a cold-blooded killer, taking power in the kingdom and waging war with Maleficent, along with a colony of dark fairies (played by Ed Skrein and Chiwetel Ejiofor), long in hiding from humans. Even after the release of the first trailer, we don't know all that much about Maleficent: Mistress of Evil plot-wise. The first trailer focused on the frosty meeting of Jolie's Maleficent and Pfeiffer's Ingrith as they celebrate Princess Aurora's (Elle Fanning) engagement to Prince Philip.

Director Joachim Ronning says the actress wanted to play a restrained villain, focusing on her Ingrith's love for her son, Prince Phillip (Harris Dickinson). ". This content is imported from YouTube. The fairy-tested airborne killer cloud is then dispersed through a pipe organ. She's so evil that Ingrith has an adorable little light fairy captured and killed as part of a beyond-cruel extermination experiment by her henchman Lickspittle (Warwick Davis). “Harris and I were looking at each other like, 'Am I pregnant in this scene?' We can all agree that that's pretty evil, and if there's a callback to that in the sequel, then it would mean Maleficent is back to her wicked ways. They lose their magic, the fairies, and they turn back to nature. Maleficent: Mistress of Evil is the sequel to the 2014 film Maleficent. "That to me was more important than the two of them (Maleficent and Ingrith), say, sword fighting.". You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site. The story contains details about the ending of  "Maleficent: Mistress of Evil."

There's a chance, of course, that it's all a misdirect and Maleficent is only protecting the Moors and the magical creatures that live there, much like she did in the first movie. The subtitle for the sequel, Mistress of Evil, is a reference to her self-proclaimed title "mistress of all evil". We didn’t know. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site.

Stop reading now if you don't want to know. Things get ugly quickly between godmother Maleficent and future mother-in-law Ingrith as they battle for Aurora's affections. Notably, she says it in the original animation after Aurora pricks her finger on the spinning wheel. If the first trailer for Maleficent: Mistress of Evil is anything to go by, the answer could well have been to go back to the character's evil roots. We also see Maleficent sassing Queen Ingrith and go full evil fairy at the end.

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The tension, you could feel it in the room.".

But there is one thing that makes us think Maleficent will go all evil on us... again.

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Digital Spy participates in various affiliate marketing programs, which means we may get paid commissions on editorially chosen products purchased through our links to retailer sites. Meanwhile, Aurora and Prince Phillip lead a charge to stop the killing. There are fairy casualties before the group manages to escape. Oh, and there's a classic villainous cackle over the title card. It continues the tale of the horned fairy Maleficent (Angelina … Whether you liked 2014's Maleficent or not, you can't deny that it was one of the few Disney live-action remakes to actually try something different.. Ingrith meets her comeuppance being turned into a goat, complete with pearls, by Maleficent – so the GOAT becomes a literal portrayal. Disney 'wants Darren Aronofsky for Maleficent', Maleficent 2 stars "would clash horns" on set. People can just come back to life," Ronning says.

And the prospect of Angelina Jolie being able to go full evil is an enticing one. So Pfeiffer was going to be a sure treat as ambitious Queen Ingrith in "Maleficent: Mistress of Evil" (in theaters now), especially squaring off against Angelina Jolie's dark Maleficent.

Once the sequel was confirmed, the question became how to continue past the original animation (and indeed the medieval folk tale), given that Maleficent had no longer fallen to her death as she did at the end of Sleeping Beauty. So is Aurora pregnant? "I guess Maleficent knows all.".

All we know for sure comes from the official synopsis. "I was joking with her, 'People will have seen the trailer. They will know.' "The queen’s ultimate defeat is when Maleficent and Aurora come back together," Ronning says. Even Fanning isn't sure about her character, who looks puzzled onscreen by Maleficent's comment. So they don’t stop fully existing, but they probably stop having a consciousness.".

Let's return to the first movie for a second and its 'true love's kiss' twist. Maleficent ends with Aurora crowned as the new Queen to unite the Moors (Maleficent's magical realm) and Aurora's human kingdom. Spoiler alert! It’s all part of her elaborate plan.

It's eye-opening horror, at Ronning's insistence, even if the fairy's demise is shown as a flower-filled return to nature. This is your last chance to bail. Happy ever after, right? There's no final confrontation between Maleficent and Ingrith, but Aurora does find love for her dark godmother again. The dramatic first trailer definitely hints that Maleficent is back to her bad old ways though, to the extent that Aurora asks her at one point: "What have you done?" We're heading into spoiler territory. It certainly would seem strange that Disney would retcon their own retcon, one that made Maleficent stand out among their other remakes (even if you didn't agree with it). You can imagine.

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Maleficent: Mistress of Evil is the sequel to 2014’s Maleficent. However, given that the first movie surprised us with its true love twist, we're not ruling out a similar misdirect happening in the sequel. So that look is how I really felt," Fanning says. Maleficent: Mistress of Evil is release on October 18.

"I fought a little for that to really show the stakes and that Queen Ingrith is a bad person. Stop reading now if you don't want to know.

"It is kind of fun," Pfeiffer says of going to the dark side. ", Ronning said he worked with Disney to find a way to show the flower side of fairy death.

It might have seemed like it would be retelling Sleeping Beauty beat-for-beat, but Maleficent ended up flipping the story on its head by turning the eponymous evil fairy into an anti-hero by the end.