Sleeping Beauty (franchise) Sleeping Beauty (franchise) Sleeping Beauty is a Disney media franchise that began in 1959 with the theatrical release of "Sleeping Beauty". "Sleeping Beauty" is a 1959 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney based on "The Sleeping Beauty" by Charles Perrault. "Maleficent" is a live-action remake based in 1959's animated film, focused on the eponymous antagonist. "Maleficent" is the sequel of the 2014's film "Maleficent", continuing the story of the first film. As a segment of "Disney Princess Enchanted Tales: Follow Your Dreams", "Keys to the Kingdom" focuses on Princess Aurora, who reigns the kingdom in the absence
The Sleeping Beauty Quartet The Sleeping Beauty Quartet The Sleeping Beauty Quartet is a series of four novels written by American author Anne Rice under the pseudonym of A. N. Roquelaure. The quartet comprises "The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty", "Beauty's Punishment", "Beauty's Release", and "Beauty's Kingdom", first published individually in 1983, 1984, 1985, and 2015 in the United States. They are erotic BDSM novels set in a medieval fantasy world, loosely based on the fairy tale of "Sleeping Beauty". The novels describe explicit sexual adventures of the female protagonist Beauty and the male characters Alexi, Tristan and Laurent, featuring both maledom and femdom scenarios