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May 27, 2016 · Screenwriter Linda Woolverton, 63, has penned such moderns classics as Disney’s Beauty and the Beast and The Lion King. In 2010, with Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland, she became the first ...
Jun 2, 2014 · On Friday, Woolverton’s latest collaboration with Disney, Maleficent, opened in cinemas. The film follows the antagonist of the studio’s 1959 animated film Sleeping Beauty, an embittered fairy who once trusted humans, only to be brutally betrayed. Angelina Jolie stars as the titular character, with Elle Fanning playing Princess Aurora, the ...
May 26, 2016 · Linda Woolverton: I was really thinking about what would happen to this girl who came back from this incredible adventure that really changed her and how she would fit back into Victorian society ...
Dec 3, 2018 · Linda Woolverton, the creator of such beloved Disney characters as Belle and Simba, visits The Hollywood Reporter podcast 'It Happened in Hollywood' to reveal all about the makings of two modern ...
Linda Woolverton is an American screenwriter, producer, author, and playwright, who wrote the screenplay for Disney's 1991 animated feature film Beauty and the Beast. She also co-wrote the story for Disney's 1994 animated feature film The Lion King, and provided additional story and writing material for Disney's 1998 animated feature film Mulan. In 2010, more than ten years later, Woolverton returned to Disney to write the screenplay for the Tim Burton adaptation of Alice in Wonderland and she a
Linda Woolverton. Maleficent, of course, is best known as the evil fairy from the classic Sleeping Beauty. She cursed princess Aurora, terrified the children (and adults) watching and made an all-around bad impression. So, when Woolverton set out to recreate Malficent for an eponymous film—perhaps you’ve heard of it, the movie stars ...
Mar 13, 2010 · Linda Woolverton, the screenwriter behind the new Alice in Wonderland film, is the low-key kind — agreeable, modest and not the type to prattle on or self-aggrandize. But be clear, despite her unassuming nature, there is an audacity to this new script. It is not simply an adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s singular children’s masterpieces ...
