We'll save the Yes No Maybe So-ing for a full trailer, but Disney is now teasing Maleficent, their Spring 2014 blockbuster hopeful, with a Pfeifferesque Pfirst Poster and a new teaser which gives us our first taste of...
Well, if not the movie itself than its...
...Production Design which looks blissfully minimalist. Or as minimalists as blockbusters get these days. All the darkness help. Maybe they'll goose up the colors in post to make it as garish as it wants to be (god help us all) but for now they've decided to just go with a few sensible colors per frame rather than every color and the pukiest shades of each per frame that they went for in Eyesore in Wonderland.
Rather obnoxiously Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland won the Oscar for art direction for Robert Stromberg. Rather surprisingly he's now the director of Maleficent and the movie looks kind of beautiful instead of hideous. MIRACLES! I guess we really can blame Tim Burton.
...Youngest co-star (Baby Pitt-Jolie in her acting debut!) who runs across the screen many years before pricking her teenage finger and passing out until her first kiss.
gif via popnography...the Costumes and Make Up of the leads though why they though they needed to enhance Angelina Jolie's hypnotic eyes and shockingly gorgeous/alien bone structure is beyond me. The poster was very Pfeiffer but this bit in the trailer is very Charlize Theron as Queen Ravenna.
In conclusion: totally hot for this.
The only things that give me great pause are two: First, the fairie designs. HATEFUL! Why do they look like cgi mermaids? Second, the title design...
It looks like it's trying to make you think of Tim Burton (STOP IT. I DON'T WANNA) what with its crooked assembly of a particular font. But hopefully this titular witch casts a fresh spell rather than that dusty old magic.
The Tease
Are you afraid
...of how this movie is going to turn out? Or are you cautiously optimistic?