Sleeping Beauty

***Sleeping Beauty*** is an upcoming live action adventure fantasy drama producing by Disney Studios and Walt Disney Pictures. It will be the reboot film from the 2014-2019 Maleficent movies.

## Sleeping Beauty

### Genre

Adventure
Fantasy
Drama

## Plot

In the 14th Century, King Stefan and Queen Leah have a daughter, whom they called her Aurora. Everyone was invited to the christening ceremony, where baby Aurora is betrothed to Young Prince Phillip, the son of her dad's friend who rules a neighboring kingdom, King Hubert. Stefan and Hubert wanted to unite their respective kingdoms through a future marriage between their respective children.

At the Princess's christening, the royal herald announces the arrival of the three good fairies who came to bless her; Flora (in red), Fauna (in green), and Merryweather (in blue).

* Flora gives her the gift of beauty, which is described in a song as "gold of sunshine in her hair" and "lips that shame the red, red rose."
* Fauna gives her the gift of song, so she may sing like a nightingale.

But before Merryweather can give her gift to the princess, Maleficent, a wicked fairy and self-proclaimed "mistress of all evil," appears on the scene. Angered at not being invited to the christening, she curses Aurora to die when she pricks her finger on a spinning wheel's spindle before the sun sets on her sixteenth birthday, leaving everyone horrified about Aurora's doomed future and her mother grabs her from the bed in disbelief. King Stefan orders his guards to seize Maleficent but she manages to escape.

Though Maleficent disappears, Flora and Fauna point out to Stefan that Merryweather hasn't given her gift to Princess Aurora yet. While Maleficent's magic is far too powerful for Merryweather to undo the curse, she does use her magic to soften the curse, whereby, instead of dying, Aurora will fall into a deep sleep that will only be undone by Love's First Kiss. King Stefan, still fearful, orders all spinning wheels in the kingdom to be burned as a preventative. Knowing Maleficent is extremely powerful and will stop at nothing to see her curse fulfilled, least of all a "bonfire", the fairies take Aurora to live with them in the forest, where they can keep her safe from any harm until she turns sixteen and the curse is made void after which she would be reunited with the king and queen. To protect her fully, they even change her name to Briar Rose to conceal her true identity. The King and Queen agree to the arrangement but are saddened to see their child go. The years pass by and while no one knew what happened to the princess they became excited as her 16th birthday approached.

In the Forbidden Mountains, Maleficent berates her goons after realizing that they had been looking for a baby for sixteen years. As a last resort, she sends her raven, later named "Diablo," to look for Aurora.

Aurora grows into a very beautiful woman, with sunshine golden blonde hair, rose-red lips, violet eyes, and a beautiful singing voice. She is raised in a cottage in the forest by the fairies, whom she believes are her aunts. On her sixteenth birthday, while out picking berries, she sings to entertain her animal friends; her angelic voice gains the attention of Phillip, who has grown into a handsome young man and is out riding in the woods. While she has not met any other friends she has been dreaming of a handsome prince. When they meet, they instantly fall in love. Realizing that she has to return home, she flees from him without ever learning his name. Back at the cottage, while cleaning up the mess to prepare for Aurora's sixteenth birthday, Merryweather and Flora argue about the color of Aurora's dress for it being blue and or pink, attracting the attention of Diablo, who waits by the cottage. When Aurora returns, despite promising to meet him again, she is unable to return as her "aunts" choose that time to reveal the truth of her birth to her and to tell her that she is betrothed to a prince named Phillip, and she is a princess. They also inform her that she'll be returning to her father King Stefan that very night (during this Diablo leaves to send the news about Aurora's discovery to Maleficent). While she tries to tell the fairies, the person she met is coming that night to see her, they tell her in sadness that it will not be and she runs to her room heartbroken, neither she nor the fairies knowing that Aurora's beloved and betrothed are one and the same.

Meanwhile, Stefan and Hubert were having a conversation about their children's future, which Hubert even shows Stefan some plans he has for when their children wed. Stefan does protest at first reminding Hubert he hasn't seen his daughter since she left, however Hubert helps him reconsider. Shortly thereafter, Phillip returns home to tell Hubert about a peasant girl he met and wishes to marry despite his prearranged marriage to Aurora. Hubert tries to convince Phillip to marry Aurora instead of the peasant girl, but fails.

The fairies and Aurora return to the castle and give Aurora a crown, she is still saddened and the fairies give her some time to herself. Unfortunately, Maleficent uses her magic to lure Aurora away from her chamber and up into a tower, where an enchanted spinning wheel awaits her. The fairies go searching everywhere, trying to look for Aurora, but at Maleficent's hypnotic order, Aurora touches the spindle, thereby pricking her finger. By the time the fairies arrive in the same chamber where Aurora pricked her finger, they are too late to save Aurora. They gasped as Maleficent taunts them for their failed attempt to defeat her by revealing the fallen princess and disappearing, cackling in triumph. As had been foretold, Aurora has been put under a sleeping spell. Meanwhile everyone is awaiting the return of Aurora, King Hubert tries to tell Stefan that Phillip has fallen for a peasant girl but the talk is interrupted by a fanfare that was to welcome Aurora. A celebration proceeds with cheers and fireworks, while up in the tower the three fairies cry. Unwilling to break Stefan and Leah's hearts about Aurora's fate and heartbroken about their failure to protect her, the fairies place her on her bed with a red rose in her hand and cast a powerful spell on everyone in the kingdom, causing a deep sleep to fall over them until the fairies can find a way to break the curse. From a remark made by the drowsy Hubert, they realize that Phillip is both Aurora's beloved and the one fated to break the curse. Reazling that the Prince may be in danger they leave but when they arrive at the cottage, they discover that the prince has been kidnapped by Maleficent and her goons in order to prevent him from kissing Aurora and breaking the evil fairy's spell. The good fairies sneak into Maleficent's lair to aid Phillip in escaping, arming him with a magical sword and shield. Warned by Diablo (who got turned into a stone by Merryweather), Maleficent attempts to thwart Phillip from reaching Stefan's castle with her magic and transforming herself into a gigantic fire-breathing dragon. After being cornered on a cliff, he flings his sword and impales her, sending her crashing down in destruction. The prince then climbs up to Aurora's chamber and removes the curse with a kiss. One by one, everyone else, including Stefan, Leah, and Hubert, awaken from their slumber.

A fanfare announces Aurora and Phillip's arrival in the throne room, where the teenage princess is happily reunited with her parents; she then dances with Phillip, each happy to learn that their betrothed and their beloved are one and the same. As Merryweather and Flora argue over the dress color again, the happy couple waltzes into the clouds and live happily ever after.

## Cast

* To-be-announced Actress as Aurora
* To-be-announced Actor as Prince Phillip
* To-be-announced Actress as Maleficent
* To-be-announced Actress as Flora
* To-be-announced Actress as Fauna
* To-be-announced Actress as Merryweather
* To-be-announced Actor as King Stefan
* To-be-announced Actor as King Hubert