MALEFICENT 3: The Black Fairy (2025)

โ€œEvery curse has a mother.โ€

๐ŸŽฌ Coming October 2025 | Walt Disney Studios

The horned sorceress has faced betrayal, war, and heartbreak. But in Maleficent 3: The Black Fairy, she comes face to face with the one force she cannot tame โ€” her past.


๐Ÿฆ‹ Plot Summary:

After years of peace between the Moors and the human kingdoms, a dark presence begins spreading across the land โ€” wilting forests, poisoning magic, and awakening long-forgotten fears.

When Queen Aurora falls into a mysterious, irreversible sleep, Maleficent senses a magic older โ€” and crueler โ€” than her own. The source? The Black Fairy โ€” a long-exiled figure shrouded in legendโ€ฆ and Maleficentโ€™s estranged mother.

Banished centuries ago for crimes against fae-kind, the Black Fairy has returned with one goal: to absorb all magic and remake the world in her image. Maleficent must now form uneasy alliances, confront painful truths, and risk everything โ€” even her own powers โ€” to stop a force that knows her better than anyone.

Because this time, the battle isn’t for a throneโ€ฆ it’s for her soul.


๐Ÿ‘‘ Cast:

  • Angelina Jolie โ€“ Maleficent

  • Elle Fanning โ€“ Aurora

  • Charlize Theron โ€“ The Black Fairy

  • Sam Riley โ€“ Diaval

  • Harris Dickinson โ€“ Prince Phillip

  • Director: Joachim Rรธnning (returning from Maleficent: Mistress of Evil)


๐Ÿ’ฌ Taglines:

โ€œBefore there was evilโ€ฆ there was her.โ€
โ€œShe cursed kingdoms. But someone cursed her first.โ€
โ€œDarkness runs in the bloodline.โ€


๐Ÿงšโ€โ™€๏ธ Tone & Themes:

  • A sweeping dark fantasy with Gothic visual splendor

  • Explores motherhood, inheritance of trauma, and redemption

  • Combines epic battles with intimate emotional stakes

  • The darkest and most personal chapter in the trilogy


๐ŸŽผ Score:

  • Composer: James Newton Howard returns with a haunting orchestral sound, blended with shadowy lullabies and ancient motifs


๐ŸŽž๏ธ Why It Matters:

  • Final installment in a billion-dollar Disney saga

  • Expands the lore of the fae and explores Maleficentโ€™s origin

  • Introduces one of Disneyโ€™s most powerful new villains in decades

  • Aimed at both fantasy fans and viewers whoโ€™ve grown up with the series


๐Ÿ”š Final Word:

Maleficent 3: The Black Fairy brings the saga full circle โ€” from villain to antihero to legend. Itโ€™s a story of darkness inherited and defied, of love tested by legacy, and of a fae queen who must embrace every part of who she isโ€ฆ to save the world from becoming what she once was.

This Halloweenโ€ฆ one last curse will be broken. Or fulfilled.