Angelina Jolie's Maleficent Lands Director

Angelina Jolie's revisionist take on the Sleeping Beauty story, Maleficent, has landed its director: Robert Stromberg. No, you're not supposed to know who that is.

Deadline reports that Stromberg will make his feature directorial debut on the Disney project, which was written by Linda Woolverton. "While Stromberg is new to the director's chair, he is no stranger to dealing with big ticket spectacle films," says the site. "He has been production designer on Avatar and Alice in Wonderland, and Disney's upcoming Oz the Great and Powerful, and headed visual effects and been a production designer on such films as 2012, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End and Master and Commander."

Who says there's no upward mobility in the workforce these days?