Once Upon a Time: Season 2 Casting News

If we weren't convinced before that the fairy tale characters on Once Upon a Time are based on their Disney counterparts, the announcement that Mulan will be making her appearance in the second season on the ABC series is proof enough. Mulan will be played by Jamie Chung. Not many people had even heard of the Chinese fairy tale before Disney adapted it for the big screen, and now she will be a live-action character. The story of Mulan is actually over 2000 years old, so it may be the oldest fairy tale Once Upon a Time has tackled (although many of the fairy tales featured in the series have their origins that far back too, most come from the more recent Grimm Brothers, Perrault, or Hans Christian Anderson versions).

We met Sleeping Beauty's Maleficent in season 1, and we will be meeting Aurora (Sleeping Beauty), played by Sarah Bolger, in season 2. I'm excited to see what they do with Aurora's story. Will we first meet her asleep in the hospital in Storybrooke? Sleeping Beauty is my favorite Disney animated movie, and my favorite fairy tale. I hope they don't mess up the story.

I am really looking forward to seeing what will happen in season 2 now that the residents of Storybrooke know who they are. I want to see reunions. Emma, Snow, and Charming. Jefferson and his daughter. Pinocchio and Gepetto. Will everyone want to go back to Fairy Tale Land or stay in Storybrooke? After all, who wants to go back to a world without television? Or flush toilets? Just sayin'. Fairy Tale Land is certainly large, and Storybrooke is so small. The magic is how they got all of the characters from Fairy Tale Land into small Storybrooke.

First Picture of Angelina as Maleficent

Filming of Maleficent, a retelling of the Sleeping Beauty story from the point of view of the evil fairy, has begun. The film tells the story of how Maleficent became evil.

Get a load of those horns. It's interesting how the Disney versions of fairy tale characters become so iconic that you just can't get away from them.

An Angelina Jolie Movie I May See

Sleeping Beauty is my favorite Disney animated movie, and Maleficent has always been my favorite Disney villain.

I just read that Angelina Jolie will be playing the title role in a movie called Maleficent. It will be about the villain of the Sleeping Beauty fairy tale (who is only called Maleficent in the Disney version, I believe).

It will be interesting to see if her story will parallel the story of Sleeping Beauty, or if it will be like Wicked, the book and musical, and tell the back story of how Maleficent became the evil fairy who would want to kill a princess just because she didn't get invited to a party.