Maleficent 3: The Black Fairy (2025) β Darkness Rises as a New Threat Emerges from the Shadows

βEvery curse has a mother.β
π¬ 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 β her past.
π¦ Plot Summary:
After years of peace between the Moors and the human kingdoms, a dark presence begins spreading across the land β wilting forests, poisoning magic, and awakening long-forgotten fears.
When Queen Aurora falls into a mysterious, irreversible sleep, Maleficent senses a magic older β and crueler β than her own. The source? The Black Fairy β a long-exiled figure shrouded in legendβ¦ and Maleficentβs 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 β even her own powers β to stop a force that knows her better than anyone.
Because this time, the battle isn’t for a throneβ¦ it’s for her soul.
π Cast:
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Angelina Jolie β Maleficent
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Elle Fanning β Aurora
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Charlize Theron β The Black Fairy
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Sam Riley β Diaval
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Harris Dickinson β Prince Phillip
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Director: Joachim RΓΈnning (returning from Maleficent: Mistress of Evil)
π¬ Taglines:
βBefore there was evilβ¦ there was her.β
βShe cursed kingdoms. But someone cursed her first.β
βDarkness runs in the bloodline.β
π§ββοΈ Tone & Themes:
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A sweeping dark fantasy with Gothic visual splendor
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Explores motherhood, inheritance of trauma, and redemption
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Combines epic battles with intimate emotional stakes
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The darkest and most personal chapter in the trilogy
πΌ Score:
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Composer: James Newton Howard returns with a haunting orchestral sound, blended with shadowy lullabies and ancient motifs
ποΈ Why It Matters:
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Final installment in a billion-dollar Disney saga
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Expands the lore of the fae and explores Maleficentβs origin
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Introduces one of Disneyβs most powerful new villains in decades
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Aimed at both fantasy fans and viewers whoβve grown up with the series
π Final Word:
Maleficent 3: The Black Fairy brings the saga full circle β from villain to antihero to legend. Itβs 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 isβ¦ to save the world from becoming what she once was.
This Halloween⦠one last curse will be broken. Or fulfilled.
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