{"id":14105,"date":"2011-05-17T20:31:14","date_gmt":"2011-05-18T01:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=14105"},"modified":"2011-05-17T20:32:19","modified_gmt":"2011-05-18T01:32:19","slug":"burton-no-longer-directing-disneys-maleficent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2011\/05\/17\/burton-no-longer-directing-disneys-maleficent\/","title":{"rendered":"Burton No Longer Directing Disney&#8217;s MALEFICENT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Maleficent.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14106\" title=\"Maleficent\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Maleficent.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Maleficent.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Maleficent-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tim Burton is no longer set to direct Walt Disney&#8217;s live action variation on the <em>Sleeping Beauty<\/em> fairy tale,<strong> Maleficent<\/strong>. The studio had been developing the project for Angelina Jolie to star in.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/heat-vision\/tim-burton-wont-direct-disneys-188700\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Hollywood Reporter<\/em><\/a> broke the story but had no details as to why Burton has moved on from the project. The <em>Reporter<\/em> is also stating that among those being considered to take over the project is David Yates, director of the last four <strong>Harry Potter<\/strong> films.<\/p>\n<p>Burton hasn&#8217;t severed ties with Disney however. He continues to oversee the feature-length stop-motion adaptation of his 1984 <strong>Frankenweenie<\/strong> short for the studio, which is due for release on October 5, 2012.<\/p>\n<p>The film&#8217;s script, by Burton&#8217;s <strong>Alice In Wonderland<\/strong> collaborator Linda Woolverton, fleshes out the backstory of the witch from <strong>Sleeping Beauty<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">But work continues on the Sleeping Beauty-based story.<\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2011\/05\/17\/burton-no-longer-directing-disneys-maleficent\/\" title=\"Burton No Longer Directing Disney&#8217;s MALEFICENT\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[839,3742,3741,677],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14105","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-angelina-jolie","9":"tag-linda-woolverton","10":"tag-maleficent","11":"tag-tim-burton"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14105"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=14105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}