Why isn't Disney doing a live action Little Mermaid remake?
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otness_e — 10 years ago(March 02, 2016 04:55 AM)
In all fairness, even if they didn't have a love/hate relationship with the film, with a bit more emphasis on hatred despite the fact that TLM seems to sell VERY well, it would have been extremely difficult to pull off since A. more than half of the characters are aquatic animals, and B., most of it takes place under the sea. They would need someone like Michael Bay to do it, since 1. He's no stranger to live action films with primarily CGI elements (he was responsible for the live action Transformers and TMNT movie franchises, after all), and 2. seeing how The Little Mermaid is, for all intents and purposes, an action thriller film in addition to romance, like Die Hard or James Bond, for example, this would be well within his territory.
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Andthatismytwocents — 9 years ago(November 29, 2016 09:05 PM)
Because it happens to be true Though well received in 1989 the film got all but ignored in the ninties by almost everyone involved in it's creationl
Yes a TV series was on in the 1992 BUT Disney made no acknowledgement of this.CBS and Burger King did) Others have mde projects involving generic mermaids in general BUT Disney does not care
If someone makes something that takes place in a snowy enviornment No appearances in Easter and Christmas parades after 1991 (except once because Hostess Joan Lunden's daughter was in the float dedicated to Little Mermaid
No theme park attraction till 1992 ve other films)
No ice show for almost ten years How long did it take to get to Broadway?
and that is a small amount hence The HATE.
The love comes from when the film DOES make money but at the same time they deny the films accomplishments which is QUITE often
Whereaa as other films regardless of box office etc GET more respect
in short Disney treats the film like Lady Tremaine treats Cinderella -
otness_e — 9 years ago(November 30, 2016 02:46 PM)
In all fairness, Toys R Us back in 2008 had a massive blowout of a The Little Mermaid sale that covered quite a bit of the store, and there's little indication that it was even related to the Disney Princess franchise, so I wouldn't say it got that much hate from Disney. That being said, however, yeah, it really doesn't get much love from Disney either.
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otness_e — 10 years ago(January 15, 2016 06:12 AM)
In all fairness, they'd probably need to make it mostly CGI in an otherwise live action film, sort of like the Transformers films or the TMNT films being made right now, since more than half of the characters are aquatic creatures, and if they DO have to make the film, they'd probably need to have Michael Bay direct it, since he did do pretty well for those aforementioned films, and besides, The Little Mermaid was in part an action film (heck, its ending was practically lifted from Die Hard, probably one of the biggest action flicks).
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jajceboy — 10 years ago(March 27, 2016 11:24 AM)
I think it would be difficult to do a live action version of it. The lead character is a mermaid, it takes part mostly under water and the cast is mostly animals. I suppose you could do a "Babe" out of it and do voice actors imposed over CGI animals. But how would you do the sea?
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watcher101 — 9 years ago(April 30, 2016 05:02 PM)
Probably because all of the underwater scenes, That'd be very hard to film since the characters will be talking and stuff. They won't just be a few scenes with them underwater, but 5-30 minutes underwater scenes and stuff, so they'd probably have to CGI the whole thing, and it'd be REALLY expensive and stuff.
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AnthonyObrn — 9 years ago(May 01, 2016 05:00 PM)
Yes, easier said than done. Look at the hassles they had with making Jaws and Waterworld..
If they do - what new elements can they add to the film?
maybe - WHY reason Ursula was exiled, flashbacks of Ariel's mother (they could copy some parts of TLM3 - Ariel's beginning for this). other stuff?
Best they do Beauty and the Beast first (Linda Woolverton screenplay)and save TLM for later.
Would love to see a "Saving Mr Banks " type film about the making of TLM featuring Jodi and Howard info -
otness_e — 9 years ago(May 01, 2016 06:37 PM)
Yes, easier said than done. Look at the hassles they had with making Jaws and Waterworld..
Yeah, agreed. At best, they can only go for stuff like the Michael Bay Transformers films or even the Star Wars Prequel Trilogy to pull it off (in other words, have be live action with more than a few CGI elements).
If they do - what new elements can they add to the film?
maybe - WHY reason Ursula was exiled, flashbacks of Ariel's mother (they could copy some parts of TLM3 - Ariel's beginning for this). other stuff?
Don't know about Ariel's Beginning (personally, I thought that film stank more than rotted fish if you ask me, and if they do have to use it, they really should make sure that Athena actually dies differently while still having humans involved. Namely, not have her being run over by a ship just to retrieve a music box [this is a creature that was able to withstand significant amounts of oceanic pressure. Do you really think that someone like her would be killed just from being run over by a ship? Goku, a Saiyan with similar traits as well as endurance due to living under gravitational pulls of Planet Vegeta for a few minutes, managed to survive being crushed by a collapsible ceiling.].), but I do think explaining the circumstances behind Ursula's exile would work, even if it's stuff we already guessed like Ursula trying to take over Atlantica beforehand.
Best they do Beauty and the Beast first (Linda Woolverton screenplay)and save TLM for later.
Linda Woolverton isn't involved in the live action remake, actually. It's Stephen Chbosky who will be doing the screenplay, and Evan Spiliotopoulos for the story. That said, I'd definitely look forward to that film and see if it has any improvements to the original (Chbosky did very well with the Cinderella movie, so I'm pretty confident that he'll probably improve it with the remake). And personally, I would prefer it if Linda Woolverton stays the heck away from the remake, especially after the disaster that was the Maleficent movie.
Would love to see a "Saving Mr Banks " type film about the making of TLM featuring Jodi and Howard info
Yeah, that will be interesting.