Halle Bailey s Little Mermaid won t be part of your world until Memorial Day 2023, but the live-action Ariel actor says the Disney remake will be worth waiting for. Filming on the Rob Marshall-directed re-imagining wrapped in July after multiple delays and production pauses caused by the [.]
Stitch Crashes Disney s The Little Mermaid in New May Release
The Little Mermaid in a new release this month! As the fan-favorite breakout character from
Lilo and
Stitch was first being introduced to Disney audiences before the film s official premiere, part of the fun was a series of promos featuring Experiment 626 invading classic Disney animated feature films such as
Stitch Crashes Disney: The Little Mermaid collection on shopDisney.com. Check out a close look at the
Stitch Crashes The Little Mermaid plush below:
(Photo: Disney)
The
Stitch Crashes Disney: The Little Mermaid collection launched on May 14th on shopDisney.com, and features a Stitch that has gotten an appropriately under the sea makeover for his fur. This includes not only the main Stitch plush, but a jumbo pin, coffee mug, and T-shirt with this special Stitch makeover. Disney describes the full collection as such:
Jessica Alexander Cast In Live-Action The Little Mermaid
Deadline reports that somewhat necomer Jessica Alexander, having previously appeared in the Disney Channel original series
Penny on M.A.R.S. and starred in the BBC/Netflix series
Get Even, has landed a part in the film. It s unclear what role Alexander will have in the movie but she ll star alongside Halle Bailey who will take on the part of Ariel, Javier Bardem as King Triton, and Melissa McCarthy as the evil sea witch Ursula. Into the Woods and Mary Poppins Returns director Rob Marshall steps behind the camera for the film.
Disney s live-action
The Little Mermaid is making a big change to the iconic villain of the story, Ursula. Tucked into
Deadline s report that Jessica Alexander has joined the cast of the upcoming adaptation in an undisclosed role was a description of Melissa McCarthy s Ursula as being Ariel s (Halle Bailey) aunt. Fans of the animated
The Little Mermaid will recall that in that film, Ursula was a sea witch determined to sabotage Ariel in order to replace her father King Triton as ruler over the seas.
What s interesting about this shift in Ursula s relationship to Ariel is that it s something that was considered for the animated classic. Going all the way back to Hans Christian Andersen s classic fairy tale, the then-unnamed sea witch character isn t especially prominent in the story, something the animated adaptation shifted that a bit, giving her an expanded role and her iconic name. Part of that was the idea that there was a fractured familiar relationship between King Triton