Joe Roth Taking Producer Role In Julia Roberts-Starrer Maleficent For Disney

EXCLUSIVE: If Joe Roth were anymore carefully connected with favorite anecdotes, he’d be among the Grimm Siblings. Roth, who help start Hollywood’s feverish devotion to story book films by creating the $1 billion-grossing Alice's adventures in wonderland, is settling being producer of Maleficent, Disney’s re-telling of their 1959 classic Sleeping Beauty, this time around told in the standpoint from the evil witch. It’s not a secret that Julia Roberts really wants to play that character. The script was compiled by Linda Woolverton, who scripted Alice's adventures in wonderland in addition to Disney’s lately re-launched The Lion King and sweetness and also the Animal. They're searching for a director following a preliminary courtship of Alice helmer Tim Burton didn’t exercise. Apart from Alice's adventures in wonderland, Roth is creating Disney’s Mike Raimi-directed Disney pic Oz: The Truly Amazing and Effective with James Franco, Michelle Williams, Mila Kunis and Rachel Weisz, in addition to Snow Whitened and also the Huntsman, the Universal Pictures epic that's being directed by Rupert Sanders and stars Charlize Theron, Billy Burke and Chris Hemsworth.