Angelina Jolie Still In?

It's been reported today that Tim Burton has dropped out of Disney's Maleficent, which is kind of a huge bummer, because if Burton's doing something scary/sexy/weird, you know it's going to be good. Actually, I retract that statement. I was thinking of Burton's Beetlejuice era, not the most recent Alice in Wonderland.

Burton's currently working with Depp (obvi) on Dark Shadows. And he's also rebooting the Hunchback of Notre Dame.

Essientially Maleficent is Wicked, just without the Rachel Berry wannabes singing "Gravity" at every chance they get. This isn't a bad thing, if Hollywood's gonna be all into the rebooting of things these days they might as well do something with a twist.

David Yates is rumored to be one of the directors that Disney is looking at to fill the Burton void. Yates has done the last four Harry Potter movies (read: the best Harry Potter movies), so this is still a postive story for the film.

Oh, and did I mention that Angelina Jolie is rumored to be the film's title character? I almost forgot. Mostly because it's Angelina Jolie and she hasn't been any fun in a good long while. Motherhood ruins everything.Although I could give less of a poop about Angelina, I won't deny that this casting rumor is pretty phenominal.

I think she could maybe stop taking herself so seriously for a few days in order to play the evil witch. I hear she's going full method on this one and will actually turn into a dragon for it. (I mean, I would. Have you seen how toolish Brad Pitt looks these days?)