Disney’s Maleficent Creators on Giving Timeless Tale a Twist

A young princess. A fairy with a taste for revenge. A curse only broken by true love’s kiss. Based in part on the Charles Perrault medieval fairy tale “La Belle au bois dormant” (“The Beauty Asleep in the Wood”) and the story by the Brothers Grimm, 1959’s Sleeping Beauty was Walt Disney’s 16th animated feature ...