I was smiling at the thought; thinking, "This must be too good to be true!"
And it is.
"Earlier this week, the news broke that Disney had hired its longtime collaborator Linda Woolverton ("Beauty and the Beast," "The Lion King") to work on the screenplay for the live-action take on the 50-year-old hit. (Maleficent is the evil fairy godmother in the Disney film; this story would be told, "Wicked"-like, from her perspective.)" WHY LINDA?! WHY. LINDA. WHY. WHO SAID THIS WAS A GOOD IDEA.
That woman does NOT belong in Hollywood. Or Broadway.
She belongs in the deepest, darkest chamber of hell where we will never have to endure her butchered 'adaptations' of fantastic works of literature (Alice in Wonderland, The Vampire Chronicles). God, Linda. What do you want from us? X_X
Recent Broadway and Off-Broadway:: Carrie, Merrily, Ionescopade
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