The Little Mermaid (Live-Action)

[Vlad]

That or maybe the Golden Globes.

[Farerb]

Leaked Funko pops:

[carolinakid]

Two of the queens (Sugar and Spice) on Drag Race Season 15 did Belle and Ariel runway looks last week. They looked absolutely stunning! More beautiful than the cast members in the parks! Disney should let queens play female face characters who can pull it off. Sorry to be off topic...

[Disney's Divinity]

I generally don't buy Funko Pops for live-action things (least of all Disney remakes, bleh), but I might get Ursula just because it's her. I guess where the heads are the biggest feature with Funko, the arm jacket doesn't look as bad there. I'm surprised Triton doesn't look worse; live-action will probably be more overdone than the Funko Pop, you can see a lot of swiggles on the armor and the trident that are probably OTT jewelry, decoration, or enameling that'll show up in the movie. And that must be one of the new dresses they gave Ariel... Another original dud methinks, just like the pink and white dress. Ariel and Eric are both much less interesting than the other two.

The new logo still sucks, but at least it's blue and not gold like almost every other logo Disney has put out the past 15 years.

[Sotiris]

Interview with the remake's screenwriter.

Q: Your next project is Disney's live-action The Little Mermaid, which is a project with so many built-in fans and also so many expectations. How has that process been? Were there things you wanted to add to that story that hadn't been in any of the other adaptations?

David Magee: First of all, it was a joy to work on. It was an absolute pleasure. The animated Little Mermaid is a classic — I am not in any way going to ever disparage anything about that — but I will say, in an animated film, you can do things in a way that you can't do in a live adaptation. For example, there's a funny scene where the French chef chases Sebastian around with a meat cleaver. If you do that with a real chef running around trying to harm a crab that you've come to know and love as an actual living being, it is not funny. So, there is a lot of trimming away the stuff that works best in animation, and rethinking how to tell a story about someone who feels like they don't belong in the world they're in, and they don't quite belong in the world they want to be in.

Along with Alan Menken, and Lin-Manuel [Miranda], and Rob Marshall, and [producer] John DeLuca, we had to rethink, 'Are there other ways that we can go into the mind of this young girl who doesn't talk? Are there ways that we can tap into what her journey is when she gets on land and she realizes it's not all she hoped it would be?' And so, to deepen that, Alan and Lin created new songs where we were hearing her thoughts about what she's going through. And in working on deepening the character of the Prince, who is a lovely animated character who's basically just dumbstruck really, we had to find a reason that he's falling for this beautiful young woman that's not just about the fact that she's beautiful and young. But that they identify with something in each other in a way that transcends having to talk about it.

It was a lot of the exploration that we did. And the result, I couldn't be more excited about it. I haven't seen it in a while, because they've been working on those special effects for a long time now. I'm very much looking forward to seeing it, but everything I know about what Rob created is that it's going to be tremendous. And I can't wait!

Q: And Halle Bailey looks wonderful as Ariel. Just wonderful.

David Magee: She's tremendous. She sings in a room with five people there and cardboard boxes to represent the walls, and we're all in tears after about 30 seconds, because she is that powerful a singer. She's the real deal.

Source: https://aframe.oscars.org/news/post/dav ... -interview

[Disney Duster]

I can't believe Colleen Atwood gave Ursula that jacket, but hey, maybe when I finally see the real deal I will like it.

I wish we had the old logo they were doing for this, but at least the final one still looks very classy.

I don't know if I should be worried or excited about Ariel finding the world she wanted for so long isn't quite what she hoped for.

[Farerb]

It's not a jacket, they're sleeves.

[Disney Duster]

Yes, you're right, they are sleeves and a collar on her dress.

[Farerb]

New book covers:




https://twitter.com/PanteaoLivros/statu ... pIwuQ&s=19

[Vlad]

Those illustration don't look that great.

[Farerb]

More book covers:





https://twitter.com/LiveAAriel/status/1 ... oqkhA&s=19

https://twitter.com/LiveAAriel/status/1 ... Vuh1g&s=19

[lord-of-sith]

The character design I'm most worried about is Sebastian. It was always going to be an uphill battle to make that character work in live action, and the cover of that book seems to imply he's going to look like a basically photo real crab. I cannot imagine that looking anything but inhumanly creepy talking to Ariel.

[Farerb]

The character design I'm most worried about is Sebastian. It was always going to be an uphill battle to make that character work in live action, and the cover of that book seems to imply he's going to look like a basically photo real crab. I cannot imagine that looking anything but inhumanly creepy talking to Ariel.

I didn't expect anything else considering I actually saw the Beauty and the Beast remake and The Lion King remake.

[D82]

Here are Amazon links to the new book covers:

The Little Mermaid: Guide to Merfolk
The Little Mermaid Live Action Novelization
World of Reading: The Little Mermaid: This is Ariel
The Little Mermaid: Make A Splash

I didn't expect anything else considering I actually saw the Beauty and the Beast remake and The Lion King remake.

That's exactly how I expected Sebastian to look too. I also suspect he and Flounder will have less screen time than in the original.

[Disney Duster]

I actually think those book cover designs are beautiful! And as for Sebastian, or Flounder for that matter, I wouldn't want to see some cartoony CGI along with real people (with fake tails). It wouldn't fit if they weren't realistic like them.

[lord-of-sith]

The character design I'm most worried about is Sebastian. It was always going to be an uphill battle to make that character work in live action, and the cover of that book seems to imply he's going to look like a basically photo real crab. I cannot imagine that looking anything but inhumanly creepy talking to Ariel.

I didn't expect anything else considering I actually saw the Beauty and the Beast remake and The Lion King remake.

And a big critique of both of those movies was how weird the CGI-based characters looked translated to live action. I thought they might come up with a way to find a happy middle ground with Sebastian, so he can still be expressive in a human way. Considering he has two of the biggest songs in the movie, I can't help but wonder what that will look like coming from a character with essentially no face.

[Disney's Divinity]

I'm less concerned with the animal characters looking like animals because hyper-realism has always been what the remakes were going for, it is what it is. No, I'm more concerned about whether or not Flotsam and Jetsam even speak or just float somewhere in the background of scenes doing nothing because they only added them in after people bitched about them being cut.

[Disney Duster]

I thought they might come up with a way to find a happy middle ground with Sebastian, so he can still be expressive in a human way. Considering he has two of the biggest songs in the movie, I can't help but wonder what that will look like coming from a character with essentially no face.

They probably tried to find some middle ground like that before, but discovered there's no way cartoony CGI looks good with photorealistic people. Photorealistic animals look good with photorealistic people.

[D82]

There's a fan account on Instagram claiming that a new trailer for the movie will be released this month. Is this true? Do you guys know anything about it?

Apparently, the source of that info is a tweet by Grace Randolph. We'll soon find out if it's true or not.

Leaked Funko pops:

The Ursula pop seems to confirm the Mattel dolls leak was legit as she also has sleeves here.

Interview with the remake's screenwriter.

It's true that animation and live-action are different mediums and some things that work in one of them don't work in the other, but I don't think what he said about Sebastian and Chef Louis is a good example of that, or at least the way he worded it doesn't make sense. Does he mean we don't come to know and love Sebastian as an actual living being in the original?

They probably tried to find some middle ground like that before, but discovered there's no way cartoony CGI looks good with photorealistic people. Photorealistic animals look good with photorealistic people.

Well, Sebastian was a difficult character to translate into live action because real crabs look very different from what he looked like in the original. But there are live-action movies (like the Alvin and the Chipmunks films, for example) where animals are more caricatured even if they're CGI and interact with humans. I think Disney wants very realistic animals mainly to highlight these are the live-action versions of the originals.

[DisneyFan09]

Well, regarding the new covers: I must say that I like them, despite how it`s still strange to see Ariel in an African-American form (and no, I don`t mean to disregard Halle`s race). But I`ll wonder when we`re getting the cover from the Art/Making of-Book.