MALEFICENT

NARRATOR:

Once upon a time there were two kingdoms that were the worst of neighbors. In one kingdom
lived folk with a vain and greedy king to rule over them. For in the other kingdom, the Moors lived every
manner of strange and wonderful creature. And they needed neither king nor queen but trusted in one
another. There was a fairy-girl who protected the Moors. Her name was Maleficent.

(YOUNG MALEFICENT LYING ON A TREE BRANCH HAPPILY PLAYING WITH DOLLS

USING HER POWERS, SHE HEARS A NOISE AND SEES A BRANCH ON A TREE HAS
SNAPPED, GOES OVER TO IT, AND WRAPS HER HANDS AROUND IT TO FIX THE TREE)

YOUNG MALEFICENT: “There you go.”

(MALEFICENT SPREAD HER LARGE WINGS AND TAKES FLIGHT ACROSS THE LAND,
GREETING THE OTHER CREATURES SHE COMES ACROSS)

YOUNG MALEFICENT: “Good Morning, Mr. Shantuwell. I love your cap.”

(MR. SHANTUWELL REMOVES HIS CAP AND BOWS HIS HEAD TO GREET HER)

(MALEFICENT COMES ACROSS THE TREE CREATURES OF WHICH ONE OF THEM

GOES TO THROW A ROCK AT HER)

YOUNG MALEFICENT: “No! No! Don’t do it!”

(THE CREATURES THROW THE ROCK BUT IT MISSES HITTING MALEFICENT)

YOUNG MALEFICENT: “Ha, you missed me!”

(SHE THEN FLIES PAST ANOTHER CREATURE)

YOUNG MALEFICENT: “Good Morning.”

CREATURE : “Good morning”

(COMING ACROSS MORE CREATURES AS SHE FLIES ACROSS THE RIVER)

YOUNG MALEFICENT: “Love your work, girls.”

(YOUNG MALEFICENT COMES ACROSS THREE PIXIES KNOTGRASS, FLITTLE AND

THISTLETWIT HAVING A MEETING)

YOUNG MALEFICENT: “What’s all the fuss about?”

KNOTGRASS : The border guards…

FLITTLE : Why did you get to tell her? I want to tell her!

THISTLETWIT : I want to tell her!

KNOTGRASS : There are rules, Flittle. I tell this time, you next time. The border guards……

FLITTLE : No, you told last time. So I should tell this time and Thistletwit next time.

YOUNG MALEFICENT: Tell me what?

KNOTGRASS : Fine!
FLITTLE : Ah, thank you. Maleficent, the border guards….

(INTERUPTED BY THISTLETWIT)

THISTLETWIT : The border guards have found a human thief at the Pool of Jewels!

(KNOTGRASS, AND FLITTLE LOOK AT HER)

THISTLETWIT : I’m Sorry.

(MALEFICENT LOOKING SHOCKED QUICKLY FLIES OFF TO INVESTIGATE

KNOCKING BACK THE THREE PIXIES)

THISTLETWIT : She’s always in a hurry with her big wings.

KNOTGRASS : Humans, here. I hope this isn’t another war.

(MALEFICENT JOINTS TWO LARGE TREE-LIKE GUARDS, WHO ARE HOLDING BACK
THE HUMAN THIEF, A YOUNG BOY, STEFAN, AS HE HIDES IN A CAVE)

YOUNG MALEFICENT: I’m not afraid. Besides, I’ve never seen a human up close.

YOUNG MALEFICENT: Come out!

STEFAN: No! They mean to kill me. And besides, they are hideous to look at.

YOUNG MALEFICENT: That’s extremely rude!

(TURNING TO ONE OF THE GUARDS)

YOUNG MALEFICENT: Don’t listen to him, Balthazar. You are classically handsome.

(BALTHAZAR BOWS HIS HEAD IN APPRECIATION)

YOUNG MALEFICENT: It’s not right to steal, but we don’t kill people for it. Come out! Come out this
instant!

(STEFAN WALKS OUT FROM HIS HIDING PLACE)

YOUNG MALEFICENT: Are you fully grown?

YOUNG STEFAN: No.

(MALEFICENT TURN TO THE GUARDS)

YOUNG MALEFICENT: I believe he’s just a boy.

YOUNG STEFAN: And you are just a girl, I think.

YOUNG MALEFICENT: Who are you?

YOUNG STEFAN: I’m called Stefan. Who are you?

YOUNG MALEFICENT: I’m Maleficent.

(BALTHAZAR SAY SOMETHING IN HIS OWN LANGUAGE TO MALEFICENT)

YOUNG MALEFICDENT: Yes, right. (TURN TO STEFFAN) You have to give it back.

YOUNG STEFFAN: Give what back?

(NOT FOOLED, MALEFICENT SIGHD AND HOLDS OUT HER HAND, STEFAN TAKES OUT
THE JEWEL FROM HIS SMALL BAG AND TOSSES IT TO MALEFICENT WHO THROWS
IT BACK INTO THE WATER, SHE THEN ESCORTS STEFFAN OUT OF THE MOORS)

YOUNG STEFFAN: If I knew you would throw it away, I would have kept it.

YOUNG MALEFICENT: I didn’t throw it away. I delivered it home, as I’m going to do for you.
(AS THEY REACH HIS KINGDOM)

YOUNS STEFFAN: Someday, you know I'll live there, in the castle.

(HE POINTS TO THE CASTLE IN THE DISTANCE)

YOUNG MALEFICENT: Where do you live now?

YOUNG STEFFAN: In a barn.

YOUNG MALEFICENT: So your parent are farmers, then.

YOUNG STEFFAN: My parents are dead.

YOUNG MALEFICENT: Mine too.

(STEFFAN LOOKS AT MALEFICENT FOR A MOMENT)

YOUNG STEFFAN: We'll see each other again.

(STEFFAN STARTS TO WALK OFF)

YOUNG MALEFICENT: You really shouldn't come back here, you know. It's not safe.

YOUNG STEFFAN: And if I made that choice? If I came back, would you be here?

YOUNG MALEFICENT: Perhaps.

(STEFFAN EXTENDS HIS HAND TO HER AND AS SHE GOES TO SHAKE IT SHE GETS A
SHOCKED FROM HIS RING)

YOUNG MALEFICENT: Ow!

YOUNG STEFFAN: What's wrong?

YOUNG MALEFICENT: Your ring! Iron burns fairies.

YOUNG STEFFAN: I'm sorry.

(STEFFAN TAKES OFF HIS RING ANF THROWS IT AWAY)

YOUNG STEFFAN: I like your wings.

(MALEFICENT SMILES TO HERSELF AS STEFFAN TURNS AND WALK OFF)

(MALEFICENT THOUGHT OF HOW STEFFAN CAST AWAY HIS RING. HE, WHO HAD SO
LITTLE IN THE WORLD SO THAT THEIR HANDS MIGHT TOUCH AGAIN. AND HEART WAS
MOVED. THUS DID THE YOUG THIEF WHO HAD HOPE TO STEAL A JEWEL STEAL
SOMETHING FAR MORE PRECIOUS)

(STEFFAN STANDS BY THE BORDER OF THE MOORS AND CALLS OUT MALEFICENT)

YOUNG STEFFAN: Maleficent! Maleficent!

(SUDDENLY MALEFICENT FLIES IN AND LAND BESIDES HIM)

YOUNG MALEFICENT: After all these weeks, look who came back.

YOUNG STEFFAN: I thought it worth the risk. So, what do you do for fun?

(WE SEE MALEFICENT AND STEFFAN PLAYING IN THE MOORS, WHERE HE TRIES TO
HOLD ON TO HER FOOT AS SHE FLIES AND THEN AND LATER SHE LETS HIM TOUCH HER
WINGS)
STEFFAN AND MALEFICENT BECAME THE MOST UNLIKELY OF FRIENDS. AND FOR A
TIME, IT SEEMED AS IF, IN THEM ATLEAST, THE OLD HATRED BETWEEN MAN AND
FAIRNESS HAS BEEN FORGATEN. AS IT WILL, FRIENDSHIP SLOWLY TURNED INTO
SOMETHING ELSE.

(WE SEE STEFFAN GIVING MALEFICENT A NECKLACE)

AND ON HER 16th BIRTHDAY, STEFFAN GAVE MALEFICENT A GIFT. HE TOLD HER, IT WAS
A TRUE LOVES KISS.

(NOW IN THEIR TEEN AGE YEARS, WE SEE STEFFAN KISSING MALEFICENT)

NARRATOR: (VOICE OVER) But it was not to be.

NARRATOR : (VOICE OVER) As the years passed Steffan's ambition called him away from Maleficent
and towards the temptation of the human kingdom. While, Maleficent became the strongest of the fairies
rose to become the protector of the Moors.

(WE SEE AN ADULT MALEFICENT FLYING ACROSS THE MOORS LOOKING BEAUTIFUL
AND POWERFUL CREATURE)

MALEFICENT OFTEN WANDERED ALONE AND SOMETIMES WONDERED WHERE STEFFAN

MIGHT BE. FOR SHE HAD NEVER UNDERSTOOD THE GREED AND ENVY MEN.BUT SHE
WAS TO LEARN. FOR THE HUMAN KING HAG HEARED A GROWING POWER IN THE
MOORS, AND HE SOUGHT TO STRIKE IT DOWN

(AS MALEFICENT SITS IN THE MOORS, IN THE DISTANCE SHE SPOTS KING HENRY AND
HIS ARMY CHARGING TOWARD THE MOORS AND SHE QUICKLY FLIES OFF)

GENERAL: Guards, hold! Guards, hold!

(HENRY AND HIS ARMY STOP BY THE BORDERS OF THE MOORS, HE TURNS TO HIS
ARMY)

KING HENRY: There they are! The mysterious Moors where no one dared to venture for fear of the
magical creatures that lurk within! Well, I say: Crush them!

(THE SOLDIERS CHEER AND JUST THEN MALEFICENT FLIES IN TO CONFRONT THEM)

MALEFICENT: Go no further!

KING HENRY: A king does not take orders from an winged efl.

(HIS SOLDIERS LAUGHS)

MALEFICENT: You are no king to me!

(HENRY STARES AT MALEFICENT FOR A MOMENT THEN ADDRESSES)

KING HENRY: Bring me her head.

GENERAL: Battalion!

(THE SOLDIERD DRAW THEIR SWORDS)

GENERAL: Attack!

(THE SOLDIERS STARTS CHARGING TOWARDS MALEFICENT)

MALEFICENT: Arise and stand with me!

(THE SOLDIERS FEEL THE GROUND SHAKING)

GENERAL: Hold the line!

(SUDDENLY GIANT TREE-LIKE CREATURE SPROUT FROM UNDER THE GROUND)

GENERAL: It's the dark creatures!

(MORE CREATURES JOIN MALEFICENT)

GENERAL: Charge!

(MALEFICENT LEADS HER ARMY OF THE FOREST GUSTDIANS AGAINST HENRY'S ARMY,
SHE SWOOPS DOWN AND TAKES DOWN THE SOLDIERS THEN COMES ACROSS HENRY)

MALEFICENT: You!

(SHE KNOCKS DOWN HENRY OFF HIS HORSE)

SOLDIER: To the king;

(AS THE SOLDIER CHARGE TOWARDS MALEFICENT, WITH FEW FLAPS OF HER WINGS,
SHE THROWS THEM OF THEIR FEET, SHE GOES IVER TO HENRY WHO IS LYING ON THE
GROUND)

MALEFICENT: You will not have the Moors! Not no, nor ever! You..

(SUDDENLY HENRY PUSHES HER AWAY, AND HIS ARMOR ID MADE OF IRON, IT BURNS
HER, SHE THEN WATCHES AS HENRY'S ARMY RETREATS BACK TO THEIR KINGDOM)

(FROM HIS BED, HENRY SPEAKS TO HIS MEN, INCLUDING STEFFAN)

KING HENRY: When i ascended to the throne I promised the people one day we would take the Moors
and it's treasures. Each of you swore allegiance to me and to that cause..

(HENRY STARTS COUGHING, STEFFAN GOES OVER TO HIM SND PLACE A PILLOW BEHIND
HIS HEAD)

STEFFAN: Your Majesty.

KING HENRY: Defeated in battle. Is this to be my legacy? I see you're waiting for me to die. It won't be
long, but what then? I will choose a successor to take the throne, to care my daughter. Who among you is
worthy? Kill the winged creature! Avenge me! And upon my death you will take the crown.

( LATER THE NIGHT STEFFAN GOES INTO THE MOORS TO SEEK OUT MALEFICENT)

STEFFAN: Maleficent! Maleficent!

(AS SHE DOES NOT APPEAR, STEFFAN TURNS TO LEAVE WHEN SUDDENLY MALEFICENT
FLIES IN)

MALEFICENT: so, how's is life with the humans?

STEFFAN: Maleficent, I've come to warn you. They mean to kill youm King Henry will stop at nothing.
Please, you have to trust me.

(MALEFICENT AND STEFFAN SIT CLOSELY TO EACH OTHER BY THE RIVER)

(THE SPOKE OF MANY THINGS AND THE YEARS FADDED AWAY. AND SHE FORGAVE
STEFFAN, HIS FOLLY AND HIS AMBITION. AND ALL WAS AS IT HAD BEEN LONG AGO)

(STEFFAN OFFERS MALEFICENT SOME WINE)

STEFFAN: Are you thirsty

(MALEFICENT TAKES FLASK AND STARTS DRINKING FROM IT AND SOON SHES PASSES
OUT AS HE'S DRUGGED THE WINE)

STEFFAN: Maleficent?

( STEFFAN STROKES HER FOREHEAD THEN PULLS OUT A KNIFE TO KILL HER, BUT HE
CANNOT BRING HIMSELF TO DO IT, HE LOOKS AT HER WINGS THEN TAKES OUT IRON
CHAIN IN ORDER TO USE IT TO TAKE HER WINGS)

(THE NEXT MORNING MALEFICENT WAKES, FEELS THE PAIN ON HER BACK, AND THEN
STARTS WAILING WHEN SHE REALIZES HER WINGS WERE STOLEN; STEFFAN THEN
TSKES THE WINGS TO HENRY)

KING HENRY: What is this?

STEFFAN: I have avenged your, sire.

KING HENRY: She is vanquished? Oh, you have done well, my son. You have done what others feared
to do. You will be rewarded

STEFFAN: I shall do my best to be a worthy successor, your majesty.

(BACK IN THE MOORS MALEFICENT PICKS UP A STICK, TRANSFORM IT INTO A

SCEPTER AND THEN WALKS THROUGH THE MOORS UNTIL SHE FIND THE RUINS
WHERE SHE SITS TO THINK, AT THE SAME TIME A RAVEN APPEARS BUT SHE SENDS
IT AWAY, THE NEXT DAY MALEFICENT SEES A MAN CAPTURE THE RAVEN WITH A
NET)

FARMER: I've got you! You wicked bird!

(MALEFICENT WATCHES AS THE MAN IS ABOUT TO HURT THE RAVEN)

MALEFICENT: Into a man.

(SHE USES HER MAGIC TO TURN THE RAVEN INTO A MAN)

FARMER: It's a... It's a demon!

( THE MEN TURNS AND RUNS OFF IN FEAR, MALEFICENT THEN APPROACHES THE MAN-
RAVEN)

DIAVAL: What have you done to my beautiful self?

MALEFICENT: Would you rather I let them best you to death?

DIAVAL: I'm not certain.

MALEFICENT: Stop complaining. I saved your life.

DIAVAL: Forgive me.

MALEFICENT: What do I call you?

DIAVAL: Diaval. And in return f or saving my life, I am you servant. Whatever you need.

MALEFICENT: Wings. I need you to be my wings.

(AS THEY WALK OFF DIAVAL TURNS BACK INTO A RAVEN AND FLIES OFF TO SPY FOR
MALEFICENT)

(DIAVAL ARRIVED AT THE CASTLE IN HIS RAVEN FORM TO WATCH AS STEFFAN IS

BEING CROWNED KING)

KING HENRY'S CAPTAIN: I present to you the first of his line, His Royal Highness King Steffan.
(DIAVALBFLIES OFF TO MEET WITH MALEFICENT IN THE RUINS AND TELL HER THE
NEWS)

MALEFICENT: He did this to me so he would be king

(MALEFICENT SCREAMS AND LETS OUT A POWERFUL BLAST OF GREEN LIGHT INTO THE
SKY, WHICH STEFFAN NOTICES FROM HIS TOWER)

DIAVAL: Now what, Mistress?

(MALEFICENT TURNS AND STARTD WALKING IN ANGER THROUGH THE MOORS WHERE
THE SKY TURNS DARK)

CREATURE: Her wings!

(SHE MAKES A THRONE USING HER MAGIC, SHE SITS AT HER THRONE WITH DIAVAL BY
HER SIDE AND WITH UNSPOKEN WORDS DECLARES HERSELF QUEEN OF THE MOORS,
FORMING A DARK OPPRESSIVE KINGDOM)

(SOME TIME LATER SERVANTS IN THE KINGDOM CHATTER ABOUT THE BIRTH OF A
BABY GIRL)

SERVANT: It's a girl!

SERVANT: It's a girl! It's a girl!

(DIAVAL WHO'S BEEN SPYING FLIES OFF TO THE MOORS TO LET MALEFICENT KNOW OF
THE NEWS)

MALEFICENT: Well?

DIAVAL: Well, I saw nothing. But there's been a, umm....

MALEFICENT: What?

DIAVAL: Child, king Steffan and the queen have had child.

MALEFICENT: Oh.

DIAVAL: There will be a Christening. They say it's to be a grand celebration.

MALEFICENT: A grand celebration for a baby. How wonderful.

(THE WHOLE KINGDOM TURNS OUT FOR THE CELEBRATION OF THE CHRISTENING FOR
PRINCESS AURORA)

(ALL MANNER OF FOLK CAME TO THE CHRISTENING, EVEN A TRIO OF FAIRIES WHO
SOUGHT TO FOSTER PEACE AND GOODWILL)

FLITTLE: Oh, look, there's the baby!

THISTLETWIT: I love babies!

KNOTGRASS: Can you just concentrate, please?

FLITTLE: Oh!

KNOTGRASS: I'm not telling you again.

(THE THREE FAIRIES FLY OVER STEFFAN AND HIS QUEEN, LEAH)

KNOTGRASS: Greetings, your majesty. I am Knotgrass of the Moorland Fair Folk.

FLITTLE: I'm Flittle, your Kingship.

THISTLETWIT: And I'm Thistletwit, Your Royalnesses.

QUEEN LEAH: They bring gifts for our daughter.

FLITTLE: These are not just any old gift,for, you see, we're magic!

KNOTGRASS: And very good with children.

(STEFFAN LOOKS ST LESH AND RELUCTANTLY AGREES)

STEFFAN: Very well.

(KNOTGRASS FLIES OVER TO AURORA WHO'S LYING IN HER CRIB)

KNOTGRASS: Sweet Aurora, I wish for you the gift of beautiful.

(FLITTLE COMES OVER NEXT)

FLITTLE: My wish is that you will never be blue, only happy, all the days of your life.

(FINALLY THISTLETWIT COMES OVER)

THISTLETWIT: Sweet baby, my wish for you is that you find...

(SUDDENLY A GREAT WIND BLOWS THROUGH THE HALL, WE SEE MALEFICENT

SHADOW WALKING TOWARDS STEFFAN AND LEAH)

FLITTLE: Maleficent!

KNOTGRASS: Maleficent!

(MALEFICENT, DONNING HER TRADEMARK CROWN AND BLACK ROBES, STAND BEFORE
STEFFAN AND LEAH GRINNING SINISTERLY)

MALEFICENT: Well,well. What a glittering assemblage, King Steffan.

(SHE LOOKS AT THE GUEST)

MALEFICENT: Royalty, nobility, the Gentry and...

(SHE LAUGHS SINISTERLY AGAIN AND LOOKS AT THE FAIRIES)

MALEFICENT: How quaint. Even the rabble. I must say I really felt quite distressed at not receiving an
invitation.

STEFFAN: You are not welcome here.

MALEFICENT: Oh.

(SHE DOES A MOCK OFFENDED LOOK THEN LAUGHS)

MALEFICENT: Oh, dear. What an awkward situation.

GUEEN LEAH: You're not offended?

MALEFICENT: Why, no. And to show I bear no I'll will, I too, shall bestow a gift on the child.

(STEFFAN RISES IN ANGER)

STEFFAN: No! We don't want your gift!

(MALEFICENT APPROACHEO AURORA'S CRIB)

KNOTGRASS: Stay away from the princess!

THISTLETWIT: Yes, stay away!

(MALEFIT USES HER MAGIC TO TOSS ASIDE THE THREE FAIRIES AND THEY LAND INSIDE
A CHEST)
(MALEFICENT LOOKS DOWN AT BABY AURORA FOR A MOMENT)

MALEFICENT: Hmm. Mmmm. Listen well, all of you. The princess shall indeed grow in grace and
beauty, beloved by all who meet her.

QUEEN LEAH: That's a lovely gift.

(MALEFICENT LOOKS ST STEFFAN)

STEFFAN: Don't do this.

(MALEFICENT LOOKS BEHIND HER AND NOTICES THE SPINDLE ON A SPINNING WHEEL)

MALEFICENT: But before the sun sets on her sixteenth birthday, she will prick her finger on the spindle
of a spinning wheel and fall into a sleep like death! A sleep from which she will never awaken.

STEFFAN: Maleficent, please don't do this. I'm begging you.

MALEFICENT: I like you begging. Do it again.

(STEFFAN HESITATES A MOMENT BEFORE KNEELING IN FRONT OF MALEFICENT)

STEFFAN: I beg you.

MALEFICENT: Alright. The princess can be woken from her death sleep, but only by.... true loves kiss.
This curse will last till the end of time! No power on Earth can change it.

(WITH HER BLAST OF GREEN LIGHT SURROUNDING HER SHE LEAVES, LAUGH
SINISTERLY)

(KING STEFFAN ORDERED HIS MEN TO SEIZE EVERY SPINNING WHEEL IN THE KINGDOM.
THE WHEELS ERE BROKEN AND BURNED, THAT THEY MIGHT NEVER BE USED, AND
THROWN INTO THE DEEPEST DUNGEON IN THE CASTLE. SECRETLY, HE ENTRUSTED THE
SAFETY OF THE CHILD TO THE MAGIC OF THE PIXIES, WHO WOULD TAKE HER TO A
REMOTE HIDEAWAY FOR SIXTEEN YEARS AND A DAY)

(WE SEE STEFFAN HANDING BABY AURORA TO THE FAIRIES AND THEY TAKE HER
AWAY TO THE WOODS)

(STEFFAN SHUT HIMSELF BEHIND THE WALLS OF HIS CASTLE WHILE HIS SOLDIERS
RODE FAR AND WIDE TO HUNT MALEFICENT DOWN. BUT SHE MADE WALLS OF HER
OWN THAT THE MOORS MIGHT NEVER AGAIN SUFFER THE TOUCH OF ANY HUMAN)

(MALEFICENT USES HER MAGIC TO GROW MASSSIVE THORNED TREES SURROUNDING

THE MOORS)

(AND SHE REVELED IN THE SORROW THAT HER CURSE HAD BROUGHT.)

(THE FAIRIES BEGAN THEIR CHARGE TO RAISE AURORA IN A SNUG LITTLE COTTAGE IN
THE WOODS)

KNOTGRASS: Oh, no! Is this it?

FLITTLE: Looks dreadful.

KNOTGRASS: Come on.

(ALL THREE CARRY AURORA IN HER BASKET AS THEY FLEW OVER TO THE COTTAGE)

THISTLETWIT: Oh, we need a smaller….

(THEY NEARLY DROP AURORA AS SHE’S TOO HEAVY FOR THEM)

THISTLETWIT: Ooh! Baby.

FLITTLE: Or bigger bodies.

KNOTGRASS: No, what we need is a proper disguise.

FLITTLE: What do you mean?

(THEY SET AURORA DOWN IN THEIR BASKET)

KNOTGRASS: Well, we have to blend in, don’t we? We have to be big enough to look after this baby.
So, gather around, ladies. Get ready. One, two, three, grow!

(ALL THREE SPIN AND SUDDENLY TURN INTO A HUMAN-LIKE FORMS)

KNOTGRASS: Oh, that’s worked quite well. That’s very nice. Now, there will be no questions asked.
We are no longer fairies. We are three pleasant women raising our orphan child in the woods.

THISTLETWIT: Yes.

KNOTGRASS: So, uh…..no more flying.

THISTLETWIT: No flying?

KNOTGRASS: No, no, and….and no magic.

THISTLETWIT: No magic.

(IN THEIR EXCITEMENT THEY LEAVE BABY AURORA AND WALK OVER THE COTTAGE)

KNOTGRASS: Yes, you heard.

(AURORA STARTS CRYING)

FLITTLE: It’s in the middle of nowhere.

THISTLETWIT: At least no one will find us here.

(THE THREE FAIRIES ENTER THE HOUSE FORGETTING AURORA, THEN DIAVAL APPEARS
IN HIS BIRD FORM AND LANDS ON AURORAS BASKET FOR A MOMENT WHEN SUDDENLY
THISTLETWIT OPENS THE COTTAGE DOOR AND RUSHES TOWARDS AURORA)

THISTLETWIT: There you are. Why are you always hiding?

(SHE PICKS UP AURORA IN HER BASKET)

THISTLETWIT: Come on. There you go.

(DIAVAL TAKES MALEFICENT TO THE FAIRIES COTTAGE AND CREEPS TO AN OPEN

WINDOW AND LOOKS INSIDE WHERE THE BABY AURORAS IS IN HER BASKET)

MALEFICENT: Hmmm. It’s so ugly; you could almost feel sorry for it.

(BABY AURORA SMILES ADORINGLY AAT MALEFICENT, SHE THEM PULLS A

FRIGHTENING FACE AT AURORA BUT AURORA JUST CONTINUES TO SMILE AT HER)

MALEFICENT: I hate you. Beasty.

(THE FAIRIES WERE PERHAPS UNEQUAL TO THEIR TASK.)

(BABY AURORA CRIES AS THE THREE FAIRIES TRY TO WIRK OUTSIDE THEIR COTTAGE)

FLITTLE: Why is she crying?

THISTLETWIT: I think she might be hungry.

KNOTGRASS: Then feed her!

FLITTLE: Oh.

(AS THE FLITTLE GOES TO GET HER SOME FOOD WE SEE DIAVAL SPYING ON THEM IN
HIS BIRD FORM)
THISTLETWIT: Hungry baby.

(FLITTLE PLACES SOME CARROTS ACROSS BABY AURORAS BASKET)

FLITTLE: There you are. There you go.

(DIAVAL SHAKES HIS HEAD AND AS THE BABY CONTINUE TO CRY MALEFICENT COVERS
HER EARS IN FRUSTRATION)

MALEFICENT: It’s going to starve with those three looking after it.

(WHILE THE BABY CRIES AT NIGHT THE FAIRIES SLEEP WITH BUTTERFLOES FLYING
AROUND THEIR HEADS AND FACES)

THISTLETWIT: It tickles.

(THISTLETWIT LAUGHS IN HER SLEEP, THEN DIAVEL FLIES IN THROUGH THE WINDOW
BRINGING HER A FLOWER WITH WATER FOR HER TO DRINK AND HE STARTS ROCKING
HER CRIC; THE NEXT MORNING THE FAIRIES ARE SAT AT THE TABLE PLAYING A GAME)

KNOTGRASS: What?

FLITTLE: You’re cheating.

THISTLETWIT: I saw that!

FLITTLE: We’re starting again.

KNOTGRASS: Suit yourself.

FLITTLE: Greedy, bloated goat!

(THISTLETWIN AND FLITTLE LAUGHS)

THISTLETWIT: Bloated goat.

(AS KNOTGRASS GOES TO START THEIR GAME AGAIN WATER STARTS DRIPPING FROM
THE CEILING ONTO KNOTGRASS)

KNOTGRASS: Stop doing that.

FLITTLE: I’m not doing anything.

(LOOKING AT THISTLETWIT)

KNOTGRASS: Well, someone is.

THISTLETWIT: It’s not me.

KNOTGRASS: You two are having a go at me and I will not tolerate….

(WATER DRIPS ON HER HEAD AGAIN AND KNOTGRASS RISES IN ANGER)

KNOTGRASS: Stop it!

(FLITTLE AND THISTLETWIT LOOK AT HER FOR A MOMENT THEN KNOTGRASS SITS
BACK DOEN AND SUDDENLY IT STARTS POURING DOWN WITH A RAIN ON HER AND
THEN INSIDE THE ENTIRE COTTAGE)

FLITTLE: Why…..

KNOTGRASS: No! This is your entire fault!

(OUTSIDE THE COTTAGE WE SEE MALEFICENT IS THE ONE USING HER MAGIC TO PLAY A
TRICK ON THE THREE FAIRIES, AS SHE SMILES TO HERSELF SHE SEES DIAVAL IN HUMAN
FORM NOW WATCHING HER DISAPPROVINGLY)

MALEFICENT: Oh, come on. That’s funny.

(AS THE DAYS WENT ON, STEFFAN DARKENED, FURTHER CONSUMED BY PARANOIA
AND VEGEANCE)

(STEFAN ORDERS HIS MEN TO STORM THE MOORS AND LAUNCH FIREBALLS AT THE
THORNED TREES)

STEFFAN GENERAL: Flame! Release!

(THE FIREBALLS ARE LAUNCHED INTO THE THORNED TREES WHICH BEGIN TO BURN
AND THE SOLDIERS ALL CHEER, INSIDE THE MOORS MALEFICENT USES HER MAGIC TO
ONLY MAKES THEM GROW TALLER AND THE SOLDIERS RUN OFF IN HER FEAR; BACK AT
THE PALACE)

STEFFAN: You failed me.

CAPTAIN: The wall cannot be burned. It is indestructible.

(STEFAN WALKS OVER TO HIS CAPTAIN AND SUDDENLY STRIKES HIM IN THE FACE)

STEFFAN: Nothing is indestructible! Not the wall! Not Maleficent! Not even her curse!

(HE TAKES OUT HIS KNIFE AND STABS THE TABLE WITH IT IN ANGER, THEN PICKS UP
HIS KNIFE TO LOOK AT IT REALIZING THAT IRON BURNS MALEFICENT)

STEFFAN; Bring me the iron workers.

(MALEFICENT WATCHES THE THREE FAIRIES ENJOYING A PICNIC IN THE WOODS AND
DECIDES TO PLAY TRICK ON THEM AND USES HER MAGIC TO PULL FLITTLES HAIR)

FLITTLE: Ow!

(THINKING IT’S THISTLETWIT THAT PULLER HER HAIR SHE PULLS THISTLETWIT HAIR IN
RETURN)

THISTLETWIT: Ow!

(THISTLETWIT’S THE PULLS FLITTLE HAIR)

FLITTLE: Ow!

(MALEFICENT THEN USES HER MAGIC TO THROW KNOTGRASS HAT OFF HER HEAD, SHE
LOOKS AT THISTLETWIT)

KNOTGRASS: You!

(KNOTGRASS AND FLITTLE START HITTING THISTLETWIT; MALEFICENT WATCHES THEM

IN AMUSEMENT AND THE NOTICES AURORA, NOW A 5 YEARS OLD, RUSHING OFF
TOWARS THE EDGE OF CLIFF CHASING A BUTTERFLY)

MALEFICENT: Oh, look. The little beast is about to fall off the cliff.

(MALEFICENT WATCHES COLDLY AS AURORA RUNS AFTER THE BUTTERFLY AND SHE
GOES OVER THE EDGE OF THE CLIFF MALEFICENT USES HER MAGIC TO HAVE SOME
BRANCHES CATCH HER, MALEFICENT LOOKS AT DIAVAL, WHO’S IN HIS BIRD FORM)

MALEFICENT: What?

(DIAVAL CROAKS APPROVINGLY AT HER)

(ONE DAY YOUNG AURORA RUNS INTO THW WOODS AND FINDS MALEFICENT)

AURORA (5YRSOLD): Hello.

MALEFICENT: Go away.

(AURORA SMILES AT MALEFICENT AND TAKES A STEP TOWARDS HER)

MALEFICENT: Go. Go away.

(AURORA PUTS HER AROUND MALEFICENT AND HOLDS ONTO HER)

AURORA (5YRSOLD): Up, up.

(RELUCTANTLY MALEFICENT PICKS AURORA UP IN HER ARMS, AURORA THE TOUCHES

MALEFICENT HORN BEFORE MALEFICENT SETS HER DOWN AGAIN)

MALEFICENT: Mmmm. Go away, Go, go, go.

(AURORA TURNS AND WALKS AWAY INTO THE WOODS)

(AS MALEFICENT HAD SAID, AURORA DID GROW IN GRACE AND BEAUTY)

(WE SEE NOW AN 8 YEAR OLD AURORA PLAYING WITH DIAVAL IN HIS BIRD FORM)

AURORA (8): Pretty bird.

(SHE STARTS STROKING DIAVAL)

(FAR AWAY FROM THE LOFTY PALACE THAT SHE REMEMBERED NOT. AND AS THE
SEASONS CHANGED AND THE FLOWERS GREW, SO DID SHE.)

(WE SEE AURORA NOW NEARLY 16 YEARS OLD, WALKING IN THE WOODS AT NIGHT
WHEN SHE COME ACROSS A BABY DEEER)

AURORA: Hello.

(THE DEER APPROACHES HER AS SHE OFFERS HIM FOOD FROM HER HAND)

AURORA: That’s it. There you go.

(MALEFICENT WATCHES GER FROM A DISTANCE)

(SHE WONDERED AT THE WORLD ABOUT HER, AND AT WHAT LAY BEYOND THE
FEARSOME WALL OF THORNS.)

(AS AURORA COMES ACROSS THE WALL OF THORNS BY THE EDGE OF THE MOORS,
MALEFICENT AND DIAVAL, IN HIS HUMAN FORM, WATCH HER FROM THE DISTANCE)

MALEFICENT: Hm. Curious little beasty.

(BUT SHE WAS NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO WISHED TO GET THROUGH.)

(WE SEE STEFAN’S SOLDIERS TRYING TO TAKE DOWN THE WALL OF THORNS WHEN
THEY SEE AURORA STANDING BY THE WALL)

SOLDIER IN WOOD #1: Shh. Look. Is that her? Is that Maleficent?

SOLDIER IN WOOD #2: I don’t know.

(AS THEY MAKE THEIR WAY SLOWLY TOWARDS AURORA, MALEFICENT TURNS TO
DIAVAL)

MALEFICENT: Bring them to me.

(DIAVAL NODS HIS HEAD AND MALEFICENT TURNS HIM INTO A WOLF, THE SOLDIERS
THEN NOTICE AURORA TURN AROUND)

SOLDIER IN WOOD #1: No, it’s just a silly peasant girl.

(MALEFICENT THEN PUTS AURORA TO SLEEP AND FLOATS HER BODY AWAY FROM THE
WALL OF THORNS, THEN AS DIAVAL SCARES THE SOLDIERS IN HIS WOLF FORM THEY
NOTICE MALEFICENT)

SOLDIER: It’s her! It’s her!

(MALEFICENT THEN USES HER MAGIC TO RAISE THE SOLDIERS OFF THE GROUND,
SWING THEM FROM SIDE TO SIDE, SHAKE OFF THEIR WEAPONS AND THEN TOSS THEM
ASIDE TO HIT THE TREES AND GET THEM KNOCKED OUT FALLING TO THE GROUND, SHE
THEN NOTICES ONE OF THEIR HELMETS)

MALEFICENT: Hmm.

(AS SHE GOES TO TOUCH IT SHE FEELS THE BURN AS THE HELMET IS MADE OF IRON)

(MALEFICENT TURNS DIAVAL FROM HIS WOLF FORM INTO HIS HUMAN FORM AGAIN)

DIAVAL: How could you do that to me?

MALEFICENT: You said anything I need.

DIAVAL: Yeah, but not a dog.

MALEFICENT: It was a wolf, not a dog.

DIAVAL: It’s the same thing! They’re dirty, vicious, and they hunt birds.

MALEFICENT: Fine. Next time I’ll turn you into a mealy worm.

DIAVAL: Well, I’ll be a mealy worm, gladly. Anything but a filthy, stinking…

(MALEFICENT SUDDENLY TURNS DIAVAL INTO HIS BIRD FORM, SHE THEN LOOKS AT
AURORA’S FLOATING SLEEPING BODY)

MALEFICENT: I wonder.

(MALEFICENT TAKES AURORA’S SLEEPING BODY DEEPER INTO THE MOORS)

(MALEFICENT HIDES BEHIND A TREE AND AWAKEN AURORA, SHE WATCHES AS AURORA
LOOKS WITH AMAZEMENT AND WONDER AT THE CREATURES THAT SURROUND HER UNTIL
THEY FEEL MALEFICENT’S PRESENCE AND FLY OFF IN FEAR, AURORA TURNS TOWARDS THE
TREES)

AURORA: I know you’re there. Don’t be afraid.

(MALEFICENT CHUCKLES)

MALEFICENT: I am not afraid.

AURORA: Then come out.

MALEFICENT: Then you’ll be afraid.

AURORA: No, I won’t.

MALEFICENT: Hm.

(MALEFICENT STEPS OUT FROM HER HIDING PLACE AND FACES AURORA)

AURORA: I know who you are.

MALEFICENT: Do you?

AURORA: You’re my Fairy Godmother.

(AURORA SMILES)

MALEFICENT: What?

AURORA: Fairy Godmother. You’ve been watching over me my whole life. I’ve always known you
were close by.

MALEFICENT: How?

(MALEFICENT STARTS WALKING TOWARDS AURORA)

AURORA: Your shadow, it’s been following me ever since I was small. Wherever I went, your shadow
was always with me.

(TO DIAVAL AS HE FLIES IN TO JOIN MALEFICENT)

AURORA: I remember you. Pretty bird.

(AURORA LAUGHS)

MALEFICENT: This is Diaval.

(DIAVAL BOWS HIS HEAD AND MALEFICENT TURNS HIM INTO HIS HUMAN FORM)

DIAVAL: Hello, Aurora.

(AURORA BOWS HER HEAD IN ACKNOWLEDGMENT)

DIAVAL: I have known you since you were a little one.

(HE KISSES HER HAND, AURORA SMILES WITH HAPPINESS)

AURORA: It’s everything I imagined it would be. Oh, it’s just so beautiful! I’ve always wanted to
come…

(JUST THEN MALEFUCENT USES HER MAGIC TO PUT AURORA TO SLEEP, TAKES HER
THROUGH THE MOORS AGAIN AND BACK TO THE COTTAGE AND PLACES HER IN HER
WON BED)

MALEFICENT: Good night, beasty.

(STEFAN SITS IN HIS CHAMBER STARING AT MALEFICENT’S WINGS WHICH ARE KEPT IN
A GLASS CABINET)

STEFAN: You mock me. I know what you’re doing. I know exactly what you’re doing.

(ONE OF HIS SERVANTS OPENS THE DOOR AND STANDS BY THE DOORWAY)

SERVANT IN WING ROOM: Sire? Your presence has been requested by the Queen.

STEFAN: Leave me.

SERVANT IN WING ROOM: Sire, she is not well. The nurses are fearful that she won’t make it through
the night.

STEFAN: Can you not see we’re having a conversation?

(THE SERVANT LOOKS ACROSS THE ROOM, THEN SHUTS THE DOOR TO THE CHAMBER,
STEFAN RISES AND WALKS OVER THE GLASS CABINET)

STEFAN: When the curse fails, Maleficent will come for me. And on that day, I will be ready.

(MALEFICENT SITS WITH AURORA BY THE LAKE IN THE MOORS AS SHE WATCHES THE
CREATURES FLY AROUND IN AWE)

AURORA: They’re so beautiful.

(MALEFICENT AND DIAVAL WATCH AURORA AS SHE STARTS HAVING A MUD FIGHT
WITH SOME OF THE CREATURES, WHEN ONE OF THEM ACCIDENTALLY HITS
MALEFICENT IN THE FACE WITH SOME MUD, DIAVAL STARTS LAUGHING, MALEFICENT
USES HER MAGIC TO COVER HIS FACE IN MUD MAKING EVERYONE LAUGH AND SHE
SMILES; LATER MALEFICENT PUTS AURORA TO SLEEP IN HER BED AT THE COTTAGE
AND WATCHES HER)

MALEFICENT: I revoke the curse. Let it be no more. I revoke the curse. Let it be no more.

(SHE STARTS USING HER MAGIC TO TAKE AWAY THE CURSE)

MALEFICENT: I revoke my curse! Let it be no more! I revoke my curse! Let it be no more! Let it be no
more!

(AS MALEFICENT TRIES TO HER BEST IN THE END SHE FAILS TO REVOKE THE CURSE
AND HEARS A VOICE WHISPERING)

VOIVE: This curse will last till the end of time. no power on Earth can change it.

(Another night, Maleficent is in the Moors again walking with Aurora)

AURORA: So all the fair people have wings?

MALEFICENNT: Most do.

AURORA: Then why don’t you? All the other fairies fly.

MALEFICENT: I had wings once, they were stolen from me. That’s all I wish to say about.

AURORA: What color were they? Were they big?

MALEFICENT: So big they dragged behind me when I walked. And they were strong. They could carry
me above the clouds and into the headwinds. And they never faltered, not even once. I could trust them.

(STEFFAN WAKES UP FROM HAVING A BAD DREAMING ABOUT WHEN HE CUT

MALEFICENT WINGS)

STEFFAND: She’s coming. She’s coming.

(AS ONE OF HIS SERVANTS SLEEPS STEFFAN THROWS WATER IN HIS FACE WHICH JOLTS
HIM AWAKE)

STEFFAN: Where are your workers?

OVERSEER: Uh… in their beds, Majesty.

STEFFAN: Get them back to work without delay.

OVERSEER: They’re exhausted, sire. But I’ll have them back to work at first light.

STEFFAN: I need them back to work now.

OVERSEER: it’s the wee hours.

STEFFAN: Aye. Aye

(STEFFAN PLACE HIS HAND ON THE SERVANTS SHOULDER MAKING HIM LOOK AT
STEFFAN IN SURPRISE)

OVERSEER: Sire?

(STEFFAN SUDDENLY GRANS HOLDS OF THE SERVANT AND SHAKES HIM)

(BACK IN THE MOORS ONE MORNING, MALEFICENT SITS AND WATCHES AURORA
LOVINGLY STROKES A CREATURE.)

MALEFICENT: Aurora? Come here.

(AURORA GOES OVER MALEFICENT)

MALEFICENT: There’s something I need to tell you.

AURORA: What is it?

MALEFICENT: There is an evil in this world and I cannot keep you from it.

AURORA: I’m almost 16, Godmother. I can take care of myself.

MALEFICENT: I understand. But that’s not what I have to tell you….

AURORA: I have a plan. When I’m older, I’m going to live here in Moors with you. Then we can look
after each other.

MALEFICENT: You don’t have to wait until you’re older, you could live here now.

(AURORA SMILES WITH JOY)

MALEFICENT: Until tomorrow.

AURORA: I’m so excited.

(AURORA LAUGHS AS SHE LEAVES TO MAKES HER WAY BACK TO COTTAGE)

(AS AURORA IS WALKING IN THE WOODS PRACTICING WHAT SHE’S GOING TO SAY TO
THE THREE FAIRIES, PRINCE PHILIP WHO’S RIDING IN THE WOODS, NOTICES HER.)

AURORA: Aunties I’m almost 16 and I need a life of my own. No

(SHE STOPS AND THINKS FOR A MOMENT BEFORE COINTINUING TO PRACTICE)

AURORA: I love you very much, but it’s time to say goodbye. You’ve been very good to me, except the
time you accidentally fed me spiders.

(SUDDENLY PHILIP STEP INFRONT OF HER TO INTERRUP HER MAKING AURORA GASP IN
SHOCK)

PRINCE PHILI: Hello

(AURORA LOOKING SHY AND AFRAID, DOESN’T REPLY)

PHILIP: I’m sorry to bother you, but I’m on my way to king Steffan castle and I’ve become hopelessly
lost. Can you help me?

(AS HE TAKES A STEP TOWARS AURORA, SHE TAKES STEP BACK IN FEAR AND
STUMBLES DOWN.)

AURORA: Oh

PRINCE PHILIP: Oh, I’m sorry. That was my fault, I rushed in too…

(HE TAKES HER HAND TO HELP HER STAND, HE SUDDENLY BEOMES SILENT AS HE
BECOMES MESMERIZED BY HERY BEAUTY, AURORA TAKES BACK HER HAND)

PRICE PHILIP: Forgive me

(AURORAS POINTS TO THE DIRECTION|)

AURORA: It’s that way. The castle.

(PHILIP JUST KEEPS ON STARING AT HER)

AURORA: What’s your name?

PRINCE PHILIP: It’s Philip.

AURORA: Hello Philip.

PHILIP: What’s yours?

AURORA: Aurora

PHILIP: Hello, Aurora.

(AURORA SMILES AT HIM SHYLY)

PHILIP: Well, it was nice meeting you. And once again, my apologies for being such a clumsy fool.
AURORA: You’re forgiven.

PHILIP: That’s good. I’d best be off the.

(PHILIP BOWS HIS HEAD AND TURNS TO LEAVE)

PHILIP: Goodbye.

(AS PHILIP WALKS BACK TOWARDS HIS HORSE AURORA FOLLOW HIM)

AURORA: Will you be back this way?

(PHILIP TURNS TO LOOK AT HER AND SMILES)

PHILIP: Nothing could stop me.

AURORA: Then I’ll see you soon.

PHILIP: Very soon.

(PHILIP GETS TO HIS HORSE)

AURORA: Goodbye, Philip.

PHILIP: Goodbye for now.

(AURORA SMILES TO HERSELF AS SHE WATCHES PHILIP RODE AWAY)

(MALEFICENT AND DIAVAL WATCH AURORA’S ENCOUNTER WITH PHILIP, DIAVAL FLAT
HIS WINGS TO MALEFICENT FACE)

MALEFICENT: Stop doing that.

(MALEFICENT USES HER MAGIC TO TURN DIAVAL INTO HIS HUMAN FORM)

DIAVAL: Well that boy is the answer.

(MALEFICENT LAUGHS)

MALEFICENT: No Diaval.

DIAVAL: Yes! True love’s kiss, remember? It can break the spell.

MALEFICENT: True loves kiss? Have you not worked it out yet? I cursed her that way because there is
no such thing.

DIAVAL: Well, that might be how you feel, but what about Aurora? That boy could be her only chance.
It’s her fate, anyway.

(MALEFICENT LOOKS AT HIM THEN RAISES HER HAND TO USE HER MAGIC TO TURN HIM
INTO A CREATURE)

DIAVAL: Go ahead; turn me into whatever you want. A bird, a worm. I don’t care anymore.

(HE TURNS AND WALKS AWAY)

(AT THE COTTAGE THE THREE FAIRIES ARE TRYING TO MAKE AURORA A CAKE FOR HER
BIRTHDAY)

THISTLETWIT: I’m so happy were leaving tomorrow.

FLITTLE: We are not leaving tomorrow.

THISTLETWIT: Tomorrow is Aurora’s 16th birthday.

KNOTGRASS: And Steffan told us to take her back the day after her birthday.

THISTLETWIT: No, he said on her birthday.

KNOTGRASS: No, the day after her birthday.

THISTLETWIT: On.

KNOTGRASS: After

(KNOTGRASS THROWS SOME FLOUR AT THISTLETWIT)

THISTLETWIT: On!

(THISTLETWIT THROWS SOME FLOUR BACK AT KNOTRASS)

KNOTGRASS: After!

(THEY STARTED THRONG FLOUR AT EACH OTHER)

THISTLETWIT: On.

KNOTGRASS: After!

THISTLETWIT: On.

KNOTGRASS: After!

THISTLETWIT: On, on, on!

KNOTGRASS: After, after, after!

(FLITTLE COMES IN BETWEEN THEM TO STOP THEM

FLITTLE: Oh, Stop it.

(KNOTGRASS THROW SOME FOUR AT FLITTLE AND SUDDENLY FLITTLE SLAPS

KNOTGRASS IN THE FACE)

KNOTGRASS: Oh!

(THEN FLITTLE AND TYHISTLETWIT LAUGH AT KNOTGRASS WHEN THEY NOTICE HER
FACE IS COVERED IN BLUE FLOUR WHERE FLITTLES HAND HAD HIT HER)

KNOTGRASS: What?

(KNOTGRASS LOOKS IN THE MIRROR AND NOTICES THE BLUE FLOUR ON HER FACE)

KNOTGRASS: How could you?

(IN THE MIDST OF THE THREE FAIRIES FIGHTING AURORA ENTERS THE COTTAGE)

AURORA: I need to talk to you about something.

FLITTLE: Oh, yes, sweetie, what is it?

(AURORA WALKS OVER TO THEM AND NOTICES THE BLUE STAIN ON KNOTGRASS FACE
WHICH SUDDENLY DISAPPEARS)

AURORA: I’m sorry to have to tell you this, but I’ll be 16th tomorrow.

KNOTGRASS: Oh

FLITTLE: Oh, yes.

(THE THREE FAIRIES LAUGH AT KNOTGRASS BRING OUT THE CAKE THEY’VE BAKED,
WHICH LOOKS TERRIBLE)

AURORA: I’m leaving home.

(KNOTGRASS SUDDENLY DROPS THE CAKES FROM SHOCK)

KNOTGREASS: See here, young lady. I did not spend sixteen years in this miserable hovel with theae
two imbeciles….

(THE OTHER TWO LOOK AT HER IN OUTRAGED SHOCK)

KNOTGRASS: Shush! So that you could ruin it on the last day. We are taking you back to your father
with….

(KNOTGRASS SUDDENLY REALIZES SHE LET THE SECRET OUT)

AURORA: My father? You told me my parents were dead.

FLITTLE: I think you better come and sit down.

(AFTER THE FAIRIES HAVE TOLD AURORA ABOUT HER FATHER, SHE STEPS OUT OF THE
COTTAGE LOOKING DISTRESSED AND RUNS INTO THE MOORS CALLING TO
MALEFICENT)

AURORA: Fairy Godmother!

(MALEFICENT WALKS TOWARDS AURORA)

MALEFICENT: I’m here.

AURORA: When were you going to tell me that I’m cursed? Is it true?

MALEFICENT: It is.

(AURORA STARTS CRYING)

AURORA: My aunts said it was an evil fairy. I… I can’t remember her name. They said it was…

Maleficent.

(AURORA LOOKS AT MALEFICENT WITH SADNESS)

AURORA: Is that you? Are you Maleficent?

(MALEFICENT LOOKING AT AURORA WITH TEARS IN HER EYES TAKES A STEP CLOSER
TO HER)

AURORA: No! Don’t touch me. You’re the evil that’s in the world. It’s you!

(AURORA TURNS AND RUNS OFF, MALEFICENT SHOUTS TO DIAVAL)

MALEFICENT: Find the boy!

(DIAVAL FLIES OFF TO FIND PHILLIP)

(AURORA RIDES TO THE KINGDOM, GOES TO THE PALACE AND IS TAKEN BY A GUARD
TO SEE STEFAN WHO IS HOLDING A MEETING WITH HIS MEN)

STEFAN: I need every available man on the east wing now. There should be no guards at the gate. I want
her to walk right in…

GUARD: Sorry to disturb, Your Majesty. We found this urchin at the gate. She claims to be the princess.

(STEFAN TAKES A STEP CLOSER TO LOOK AT AURORA)

AURORA: Father. It’s me, Aurora!

(SHE RUSHES EXCITEDLY TOWARDS STEFAN AND HUGS HIM)

STEFAN: You look just like your mother. They brought you back a day too soon. I told those three
idiots!

(TO THE GUARD)

STEFAN: Lock her up in her room.

(TO AURORA)

STEFAN: Go.

(THE GUARD GRABS AURORA’S ARM AND STEFAN TURNS TO HIS MEN)

STEFAN: Prepare the men. Maleficent’s coming.

(THE THREE FAIRIES, NOW BACK IN THEIR PIXIE FORM FLY ACROSS THE WOODS IN
SEARCH OF AURORA)

FLITTLE: It’s so good to be small again! Look at my feet! I love my tiny little feet!

KNOTGRASS: Pay attention! We have to find Aurora, or the king will have our heads!

(ON THE DAY OF HER BIRTHDAY, AURORA GROWS RESTLESS IN HER ROOM AND FEELS
A DISCOMFORT ON HER FINGER, SHE GOES TO OPEN THE DOOR BUT FINDS IT LOCKED,
THEN SHE HEARS A VOICE CALLLING TO HER)

VOICE: Aurora.

(AURORA FINDS A HIDDEN DOOR AND KNOCKS ON IT AND IT’S OPENED BY A

HANDMAIDEN, AURORA RUSHES INSIDE)

HANDMAIDEN: Wait!

(AURORA RUNS OFF)

HANDMAIDEN: Princess?

(IN THE WOODS MALEFICENT FINDS PHILLIP ON HIS HORSE LOOKING FOR AURORA)

PRINCE PHILLIP: I’m looking for a girl.

MALEFICENT: Of course you are.

(MALEFICENT USES HER MAGIC TO PUT PHILLIP TO SLEEP)

MALEFICENT: I need a horse.

(SHE LOOKS UP AT DIAVAL , IN HIS BIRD FORM, AFTER MALEFICENT TURNS DIAVAL
INTO A HORSE WE SEE HER RIDING HIM WITH PHILLIP ASLEEP, BEING RIDDEN ON HIS
HORSE BEHIND HER)

(BACK AT THE PALACE AURORA’S FINGER IS FEELING MORE UNCOMFORTABLE AS SHE

CONTINUES TO HEAR THE VOICE)

VOICE: …into a sleep like a death. Aurora.

(BACK WITH MALEFICENT WHO IS RIDING DIAVAL AS FAST AS SHE CAN TO GET TO THE
PALACE)

MALEFICENT: Come on, Diaval!

(BACK AT THE PALACE AURORA, STILL HEARING THE VOICE, FINDS A DOOR TO THE
DUNGEON)

VOICE: Aurora.

(AURORA OPENS THE DOOR AND ENTERS TO FIND WHERE ALL THE DESTROYED
SPINNING WHEELS ARE AND SHE NOTICES THE CURSED SPINNING WHEEL FORMING,
SHE STARTS WALKING OVER TO OT; MEANWHILE MALEFICENT FRANTICALLY RACES
TO THE CASTLE)

MALEFICENT: Faster, Diaval, faster!

(BACK THE PALACE, AURORA HAS REACHED THE SPINNING WHEEL)

VOICE: She will prick her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel and fall into a sleep like death. No
power on Earth… A sleep like death.

(AURORA, MESMERIZED BY THE SPINDLE, TOUCHES IT, PRICKS HER FINGER, HER EYES
SHUT AND SHE COLLAPSES TO THE FLOOR, MALEFICENT THEN SENSES THE MOMENT IT
HAPPENS)

MALEFICENT: It’s done.

(THE HANDMAIDEN THEN FINDS AURORA’S BODY AND BEGINS WEEPING)

(MALEFICENT AND DIAVAL, IN HIS HUMAN FORM WALKS TOWARDS THE PALACE WITH
THE STILL UNCONSCIOUS PHILLIP)

DIAVAL: They pulled the guards, he’s waiting for you in there. If we go inside those walls, we’ll never
come out alive.

MALEFICENT: Then don’t come, it’s not your fight.

(MALEFICENT STARTS WALKING TOWARDS THE PALACE WITH PHILLIPS UNCONSCIOUS

BODY FLOATING BEHIND HER)

DIAVAL: Huh. Well thank you very much. “I need you, Diaval. I can’t do this without you, Diaval.”

(DIAVAL STARTS FOLLOWING MALEFICENT)

MALEFICENT: I can hear you.

(INSIDE THE PALACE, STEFAN IS BY AURORA’S BED AS SHE LIES UNCONSCIOUS IN HER
BED, THE THREE FAIRIES APPROACH THEM)

STEFAN: Look at herl Look at what you’ve done.

KNOTGRASS: She’s only sleeping.

STEFFAN: She’s only sleeping , you say? She’s only sleeping. She’s only sleeping forever!

THISTLETWIT: What about the kiss?

KNOTGRASS: Yes, true love’s kiss!

STEFFAN: True love does not exist.

FLITTLE: But it’s her only chance, your majesty.

(STEFFAN HITS FLITTLE ASIDES IN ANGER AND WALKS OUT OF THE ROOM)

(MALEFICENT AND DIAVAL ENTER THE PALACE AND COMES STEFFAN’S TRAP OF
MASSIVE IRON NEEDLES SET ACROSS THE THRESHOLD)

DIAVAL: Mistress.

(MALEFICENT STARTS WALKING THROUGH THE IRON NEEDLES CAREFULLY, THEY ALL
GET THROUGH AND MALEFICENT MANAGES TO KNOCK OUT A GUARD IN THE PROCESS)

MALEFICENT: Hmmm.

(BACK IN AURORA’S ROOM)

FLITTLE: What are we going to do?

KNOTGRASS: We can’t give up, can we? Come on, girls.

FLITTLE: But we don’t even know where to start.

THISTLETWIT: True love doesn’t just fall from tress, you know.
(OUTSIDE AURORA’S ROOM MALEFICENT WAKES PHILIP BY DROPPING HIS BODY TO
THE FLOOR, THE THREE FAIRIES HEAR THE NOISE AND OPEN THE DOOR)

PHILIP: Pardon me. I’m embarrassed to say I don’t know where I am.

THISTLETWIT: In king Steffan’s castle.

(PHILIP RISES TO HIS FEET)

PHILIP: This is where I’m meant to be. Odd that I can’t recall how I get here.

KNOTGRASS: Why have you come?

PHILIP: My father sent me here to see the king.

KNOTGRASS: Who is your father?

PHILIP: King John of Ulstead.

THISTLETWIT, FLITTLE, KNOTGRASS: A prince!

(THE THREE FAIRIES QUICKLY DRAG HOM AND PUSH HIM TO AURORA’S BEDSIDE)

PHILIP: Aurora.

THISTLETWIT: He knows her.

PHILIP: Why is she sleeping?

KNOTGRASS: She’s trapped in an enchantment.

FLITTLE: Isn’t she beautiful?

PHILIP: The most beautiful girl I’ve ever seen.

THISTLETWIT: Do you want to kiss her?

PHILIP: Very much.

THISTLETWIT: Go, then.

(AT THE SAME TIME MALEFICENT AND DIAVAL ENTER THE ROOM, HIDE BEHIND A
SCREEN TO WATCH)

PHILIP: I wouldn’t feel right about it. I barely know her, we’ve only met once.

KNOTGRASS: Haven’t you ever heard of love at first sight? Kiss her! Go on.

(PHILIP LEANS CLOSE TO KISS HER BUT STOPS)

PHILIP: An enchantment, you say?

THE THREE FAIRIES: Oh! Kiss her!

(PHILIP LEANS IN SLOWLY AND KISSES HER, MALEFICEENT AND THE THREE FAIRIES
WATCH ON ANTICIPATION FOR BUT THE KISS ISN’T ENOUGH TO WAKE AURORA)

KNOTGRASS: You didn’t do it properly.

FLITTLE” It supposed to be a true loves kiss!

THISTLETWIT: I was certain he was the one.

(THE THREE FAIRIES STARTS DRAGGING PHILIP AWAY FROM AURORA’S BEDSIDE)

PHILIP: What are you doing?

KNOTGRASS: We have to keep looking

(THE THROW PHILI OUT OF THE ROOM LEAVE THE ROOM WITH HIM CLOSE THE DOOR
BEHIND THEM)

(TO DIAVAL AFTER THE FAIRIES LEAVE THE ROOM)

MALEFICENT: I told you.

(MALEFICENT LEAVE THEIR HIDING PLACE AND MALEFICENT WALKS OVER AURORA’S
BEDSIDE)

MALEFICENT: I will not ask you forgiveness because what I have done to you is unforgivable. I was so
lost in hatred and revenge. Sweet Aurora, you stole what was left in my heart. And now I have lost you
forever.

(TEARS START ROLLING DOWN HER FACE AS BEGINS TO CRY)

MALEFICENT: I swear, no harm will come to you as long as I live. And not a day shall pass that I don’t
miss your smile.

(MALEFICENT KISSES AURORA’S FOREHEAD AND AS SHE TURNS TO LEAVE AURORA’A

EYES OPEN)

AURORA: Hello, Godmother.

(MALEFICENT TURNS TO FACE AURORA WITH TEARS IN HER EYES)

MALEFICENT: Hello, beasty.

(AURORA SMILES AND MALEFICENT HOLDS HER HAND)

DIAVAL: There is no true love’s kiss but act of true love.

(AS STEFFAN PACES IMPATIENTLY ONE OF HIS CAPTAIN APPROACHES HIM)

CAPTAIN: She’s here, sire.

(WE THEN SEE MALEFICENT AND AURORA WALKING TOWARDS THE HALL WHEN
MALEFICENT STOPS)

AURORA: Are we going to the Moors now?

MALEFICENT: If that is what you wish.

(AURORA SMILES AND NOS HER HEAD, MALEFICENT STARTS WALKING THROUGH THE
HALL AS SHE TURNS SUDDENLY A MASSIVE IRON NET IS DROPPED ON HER AND THEN
GUARDS RUN IN TO AMBUSH HER)

GUARD: We’ve got her!

(AURORA GOES TO HELP MALEFICENT ONE OF THE SOLDIERS PUSHES HER BACK)

AURORA: Stop!

GUARD: Get back!

(THE SOLDIERS GRAB HOLD OF AURORA TO HOLD HER BACK)

AURORA: No!

(AS THE GUARDS START ATTACKING MALEFICENT SHE LOOKS AT DIAVAL, WHO’S
FLYING AROUND THEM)

MALEFICENT: Into a dragon.

(SHE USES HER MAGIC TO TRANSFORM DIAVAL INTO A LARGE DRAGON AND HE
BREATHES FIRE AT THE GUARDS AND PULLS THE IRON NET OFF OF MALEFICENT)

(AS DIAVAL OS ATTACKING THE GUARDS)

MALEFICENT: Run, Aurora!

(AURORA RUNS IP THE STAIRS ENTERS THE CHAMBER WHERE MALEFICENT WINGS ARE
BEING KEPT AND LOCKS HERSELF IN, BACK IN THE HALL THE GUARDS MANAGE TO
RESTRAIN SIACAL AND START SURROUNDING MALEFICENT WITH THEIR SHIELDS)

GUARD 1: Get back! Hold it steady.

GUARD 2: Pull to the left! Pull

GUARD 1: Hold the line! Look out. Hold your line.

GUARD 2: Close in. brings it down!

(BACK IN THE CHAMBER AURORA SEES MALEFICENT WINGS LOCJED IN THE CABINET
AND SUDDENLY THEY START TO FLAP, AURORA PUSHES THE CABINET OVER AND
BREAKS IT, SETTING THE WINGS FREE; BACK IN THE HALL, AFTER MALEFICENT IS
COMPLETELY SORROUNDED STEFFAN, ENTIRELY DRESSED IN HIS ARMOR, STEPS INTO
THE CIRCLE AND SUDDENLY HITS HER WITH AN IRON CHAIN, KNOCKING HER DOWN)

(AFTER HITTING MALEFICENT WITH THE IRON CHAIN, STEFFAN'S GUARDS STSRTS
BANGING THEIR SHIELD ON THE GROUND)

STEFFAN: Enough!

(HE WALKS OVER TO MALEFICENT WHO'S STILL KNEELING ON THE GROUND)

STEFFAN: How does it feel, hm? To be a fairy creature without wings in a world where you don't
belong?

(STEFFAN THROWS THE CHAIN AROUND MALEFICENT AND TOSSES HER ASIDE, STEFFAN
TAKES OUT HIS WORD AND AS HE WALKS TOWARDS MALEFICENT TO STRIKE FATAL
BLOW, THE WINGS REACH MALEFICENT AND REATTACH THEMSELVES TO HER BACK,
SHE FLAPPING HER WINGS FLOATS UP)

STEFFAN: Kill her!

GUARD: Kill her!

(MALEFICENT STARTS TO FLY AWAY)

GUARD: Shoot!

(MALEFICENT MANAGES TO FREE DIAVAL FROM HIS RESTRAINTS THEN AS SHE GOES TO
FLY OUT THE WINDOW STEFFAN THROWS A CHAIN AT HER LEG AND HOLDS ON)

STEFFAN: Shoot her!

GUARD: Take aim!

(AS THE GUARDS ARE ABOUT TO THROW THEIR SPEARS AT HER MALEFICENT FLIES OUT
THE WINDOW PULLING STEFFAN WITH HER UNTIL THEY REACH A TOWER, MALEFICENT
THROWS STEFFAN AGAINST THE TOWER WALL AND GRABS HIS THROAT)

MALEFICENT: It's over.

(SHE LETS HIM GO AND AS SHE TURNS TO FLY OFF STEFFAN JUMPS ONTO HER,
THROWING THEM BOTH OFF THE TOWER, MALEFICENT TAKES FLIGHT AND DROPS
STEFFAN IN THE PROCESS AND HE FALLS TO HIS DEATH)
(AURORA SAT IN THE MOORS WATCHING MALEFICENT AS SHE FLIES AROUND USING
HER MAGIC TO TAKE DOWN THE WALL OF THORNS)

(MALEFICENT BROUGHT DOWN HER WALL OF THORNS AND LOOK OFF HER CROWN.
AND SHE INVENTED AURORA TO SEE HOW THE MOORS HAD BEEN ONCE, LONG AGO,
WHEN MALEFICENT WAS BUT A CHILD AND HER HEARTS WAS RIGHT. FOR NOW, IT WAS
AGAIN. BUT THAT WAS NOT ALL)

(AFTER MALEFICENT RESTORES THE MOORS TO ITS FORMER BEAUTY, AURORA IS

BROUGHT BEFORE HER AND DIAVAL)

KNOTGRASS: Oh, there she is. Hurry up. They're waiting.

THISTLETWIT: Wait for me!

(THE THREE FAIRIES FLY IN CARRYING A CROWN)

KNOTGRASS: We present this crown to our little Aurora, for whom we have sacrificed the best years of
our....

(MALEFICENT LOOKS AT HER GIVING HER THE EVIL EYE)

KNOTGRASS: Nevermind.

(MALEFICENT PLACES THE CROWN ON AURORA'S HEAD)

MALEFICENT: Our kingdoms have been unified.

(AURORA FACES CREATURE OF THE MOORS)

MALEFICENT: You have your queen.

(THE CREATURES CHEER)

(SO YOU SEE, THE STORY IS NOT QUITE AS YOU WERE TOLD AND I SHOULD KNOW, FOR I
WAS THE ONE THEY CALLED SLEEPING BEAUTY)

(AS THE CREATURES BOW TO AURORA SHE TURNS TO SEE PHILIP HAS JOINED THEM,
THEY SMILE AT EACH OTHER)

(IN THE END, MY KINGDOM WAS UNITED NOT BY A HERO OR A VILLAIN, AS LEGEND
HAD PREDICTED, BUT BY ONE WHO WAS BOTH HERO AND VILLAIN. AND HER NAME
WAS MALEFICENT)

(WE SEE MALEFICENT AND DIAVAL IN HIS BIRD FORM FLYING HIGH OVER THE MOORS
ANF THROUGH THE CLOUDS)