Disney's Live Action The Little Mermaid

[Andrew C]

Just let us be better than the little mermaid live!

 

[Andrew C]

Oh. This isn’t coming out until 2023? How its going to do is anyone’s guess at this point.

 

[Andrew C]

Lion King

Big box office success..critical failure.

 

[Vegas Disney Fan]

Based on past performance for remakes of the same kind, what makes you think this will fail?

Beauty and The Beast, Aladdin, Lion King, have all had great success.

For me it’s simply that D+ exists now, unless a movie is a must see on the big screen I think people will wait to see it at home for “free”.

I don’t think this is a must see big screen movie so I think it will have a bad box office no matter how good it is.

 

[PrinceCharming617]

Question again, apart from the casting, has there be any indication that Little Mermaid is not being closely adapted still? All we have had is a teaser trailer.

Does casting a Black actress somehow take this film into another realm that the others did not cross?

How are you making your assessments?

I've read that they want to make it less of a love story. And that Ariel doesn't need a man to succeed. Whatever that means.

 

[Br0ckford]

 

[Sir_Cliff]

If Ariel is Danish, why does she speak with an American accent?

That argument about the casting of this film is so strange. Absolutely nothing about the original animated film suggests it was set in Denmark. I'm beginning to wonder whether people think Scandinavia is located on the north coast of South America.

 

[PrinceCharming617]

I don't know why people keep bringing up the book. Ariel is a totally different version than the literary one. I'm sure they'll do the same thing with Snow White.

The Disney versions are all different than the graphic and often scary book versions.

 

[Andrew C]

That argument about the casting of this film is so strange. Absolutely nothing about the original animated film suggests it was set in Denmark. I'm beginning to wonder whether people think Scandinavia is located on the north coast of South America.

Eric's castle is in Italy, or is supposed to be set in a similar Mediterranean environment. In the Disney version...

 

[LittleBuford]

I'm beginning to wonder whether people think Scandinavia is located on the north coast of South America.

I can’t say I ever interpreted Eric’s kingdom as being in South America!

 

[Sir_Cliff]

I can’t say I ever interpreted Eric’s kingdom as being in South America!

Well, I was putting together palm trees, the ceramic roof tiles on Mediterranean architecture, and a crab with a Caribbean accent!

 

[LittleBuford]

Well, I was putting together palm trees, the ceramic roof tiles on Mediterranean architecture, and a crab with a Caribbean accent!

Fair enough! I tend to think of Sebastian as an expat.

 

[Mr Ferret 75]

 

[Sir_Cliff]

Fair enough! I tend to think of Sebastian as an expat.

Wherever it takes place, I am betting Sebastian is neither a native of nor chose to be an expat in Copenhagen harbour!

 

[Disney Analyst]

Fair enough! I tend to think of Sebastian as an expat.

Don't you know? All Crabs have those accents, no matter what part of crabland they are born in.

 

[Br0ckford]

Wherever it takes place, I am betting Sebastian is neither a native of nor chose to be an expat in Copenhagen harbour!

I submit Sabastian Stan should have been cast.

 

[The Mom]

The discussion can continue - or not - when the movie is actually released.

 

[wdwmagic]

Here is the teaser.

Please remain civiil in conversation. Thanks

 

[LittleBuford]

Here is the teaser.

Please remain civiil in conversation. Thanks

I’m really excited for this!

 

[BuddyThomas]

Here is the teaser.

Please remain civiil in conversation. Thanks

Looks gorgeous. Love it.