Everything you need to know about Disney’s The Little Mermaid remake

The Disney animated classic Little Mermaid will soon be revealed as remake The Little Mermaid sing and swim into the hearts of the audience. We’ll keep you up to date on all new developments in the latest Disney Live Action Remake. In this article you will find:

When does Disney’s Ariel remake The Little Mermaid start?

The Arielle remake has on May 25, 2025 its German cinema release. After filming repeatedly stalled in the midst of the corona pandemic, shooting was finally completed in July 2021. However, there was still a time for post-production (for special effects, etc.) that should not be underestimated.

The Plot: What is Little Mermaid about?

Originally, The Little Mermaid is a fairy tale by the Danish author Hans Christian Andersen, which he published in 1837 as
Den lille havfrue

published. For Disney’s 1989 animated film Ariel, the original narrative was revised and given a happy ending.

In Disney’s version, Ariel the Mermaid lives with her family under the sea in a kingdom ruled by her father, King Triton (making the title character one of the official 11 Disney Princesses). She loves to sing and her familiars include Fabius the fish, Sebastian the crab and Scuttle the seagull. Unlike her family, she longs for the water surface and one day saves a princewho is shipwrecked.

To see the king’s son again Arielle sells her beautiful voice to the sea witch Ursula and receives it instead of her fish tail Legs. But Ursula pushes her way into the life of the prince with the voice of the mermaid.

Pictures and trailers for Disney’s Ariel remake

Leading actress Halle Bailey was the first one first insight into Arielle presented, which left the most important question open.

It took over a year for the first teaser trailer correctly introduced the new singing leading actress for the Arielle remake.

Actors in the Cast of Disney Remake: The Cast of Little Mermaid

About who the main character would play in The Little Mermaid was long speculated in advance. Spider-Man star Zendaya has often been suspected of being cast, not least because she showed interest and even posed on Instagram with red hair at one point.

In the end, however, it became more like until then unknown face cast as the iconic main character: the actress Hall Bailey from Grown-ish, which we have already presented to you in more detail.

After Lady Gaga as possible in the meantime Ursula was reported, the rumor mill about the sea witch continued to simmer and finally brought Melissa McCarthy out.

Harry Styles’ casting as Prince Eric lingered as a persistent rumor until the singer-performer publicly declared that he “respectfully declined” the role. Instead, a short time later, two new Eric actors came up as competitors for the role into the conversation, but only one of them prevailed.

As of now, the cast of Disney’s Ariel remake is as follows:

The Little Mermaid: The Crew Behind Disney’s Ariel

Disney’s live-action remake of Ariel is in the hands of Director Rob Marshall, who first came up for discussion in December 2017. With films like Chicago, Nine, Into the Woods and Mary Poppins’ Return he already had plenty musical experience collect. He even had it in Pirates of the Caribbean On Stranger Tides staged mermaids before.

That script The Ariel remake was in the hands of Jane Goldman (Star Wanderer, Kingsman) and David Magee (Life of Pi), as well as Rob Marshall himself and John DeLuca. the costumes was designed by four-time Oscar winner Colleen Atwood (Fantastic Beasts, Alice in Wonderland).

The music: Disney’s Ariel will be a musical again

Alan Menkenwho wrote the songs for the original Disney film and helped remake the film as a Broadway musical in 2008, returns for the remake of Arielle as composer back. He receives musical support from Lin Manuel Mirandawho has made a name for himself in Hollywood with hits like the musical Hamilton and the songs about Moiana.

Unlike Disney remakes like the altered Mulan remake, The Little Mermaid knew from the start that Ariel’s new edition again a musical should be. Lead actress Halle Bailey had before she was cast already made waves as a singer, because with her sister Chloe Bailey she forms the R&B duo called Chloe x Halle. In addition, Daveed Diggs (like in Hamilton) rapping and a new song should await Arielle on land.

Controversies surrounding the little mermaid

Aside from the fact that another Disney remake of an animated classic is seen by some as a continuing journey down a creative impasse, the cast of black Halle Bailey in particular caused a lot of talk, so that the actress herself defend against negative comments had to, which unfortunately came across as racist.

Only the finished film will be able to show whether the critics who do not want to see a single element of the Disney film changed can be convinced. in the Ranking of your favorite Disney cartoons Incidentally, the original animated film was in the upper midfield in terms of popularity.

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