This idea will soon be explored even further, with Kristin Chenoweth, who once played Glinda the Good, signed on to play Maleficent in Disney's upcoming Descendants, a Disney Channel original ...

The fourth Disney Descendants movie is now available to ... The first three movies focused on the children of Maleficent, ...

while a leader of the fairies (who are descendants of the Phoenix, as is Maleficent) is played by Ed Skrein – doesn’t change the general rule about the makeup of human people and forest people ...