{"id":627,"date":"2017-09-10T09:20:33","date_gmt":"2017-09-10T09:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/?p=627"},"modified":"2018-02-05T03:25:31","modified_gmt":"2018-02-05T03:25:31","slug":"angelina-jolie-confirms-return-to-screen-with-maleficent-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/angelina-jolie-return-to-screen-with-maleficent-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Angelina Jolie Confirms Return to Screen with \u201cMaleficent 2\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Angelina<\/p>\n

Source: ScreenRant<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Once one of the most prolific actresses in the world, Angelina Jolie has been inactive on the silver screen for a while now. Her last starring role was with ex-husband Brad Pitt in the 2015 film”By the Sea”, which she also directed. Since then, it’s her separation with Pitt that’s been hogging the limelight around the world.<\/p>\n

\"Angelina<\/p>\n

Source: FI<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Jolie has had a long and illustrious career as an actress, having twice been nominated for Academy Awards and winning once for Best Supporting Actress for \u201cGirl, Interrupted\u201d. Lately, she has focused more time and energy into directing feature films, starting with the Bosnian war drama \u201cIn the Land of Blood and Honey\u201d in 2011 and also telling the tale of an American soldier trapped in a Japanese prison camp during WW-II in \u201cUnbroken\u201d in 2014.<\/p>\n

Between these two features and \u201cBy the Sea\u201d, she has only appeared in two movies. In 2014\u2019s \u201cMaleficent\u201d she starred as the famed titular witch of the tale of Sleeping Beauty<\/em>, and in 2016\u2019s \u201cKung Fu Panda 3\u201d we saw her reprising the role of Master Tigress.<\/p>\n

\"Angelina<\/p>\n

Source: ScreenRant<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Between these movies, she saw a very public divorce from Brad Pitt and then went on to focus on a new directorial venture for Netflix, titled \u201cFirst They Killed My Father\u201d, an adaption of Loung Ung\u2019s memoir of the same name.<\/p>\n

\"Maleficent<\/p>\n

Source: Variety<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

However, things are about to change for fans who would rather watch her more on the screen than behind it. Promoting her latest at the Telluride International Film Festival, she said that her next feature will indeed be \u201cMaleficent 2\u201d. She was quoted as saying,<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve been working on the screenplay for ‘Maleficent 2’ and it\u2019s going to be a really strong sequel.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For those unaware, Maleficent offered an alternate depiction of the classic Disney villain from Sleeping Beauty, including a backstory to the antagonist that revealed she isn\u2019t as bad as the world thought. This new take on the character re-imagined her as a fairy who was betrayed by humans and had her wings stolen, making her bitter against the world of man. Though she initially sought revenge by cursing Aurora, Maleficent eventually grew to care for the girl in a maternal way. Seeing the good in humans, Maleficent redeemed herself by saving Aurora.<\/p>\n

The movie went on to become Jolie\u2019s highest grossing movie ever, with a global haul of $758.50 million. Needless to say, interest is at its peak for a sequel and now with Jolie\u2019s confirmation, things are expected to move much faster.<\/p>\n

The movie could start shooting as soon as early next year and be ready for a grand summer release in 2019.<\/p>\n

What do you think of Jolie\u2019s return to acting? Sound off in the comments below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: ScreenRant Once one of the most prolific actresses in the world, Angelina Jolie has been inactive on the silver screen for a while now. Her last starring role was with ex-husband Brad Pitt in the 2015 film”By the Sea”, which she also directed. Since then, it’s her separation with Pitt that’s been hogging the […] More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":963,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[53,110,112,151],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=627"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":962,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions\/962"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}