Why isn't Disney doing a live action Little Mermaid remake?
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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
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otness_e — 9 years ago(May 02, 2016 09:00 PM)
Yeah, especially when as it is, humans just seemed more like an afterthought (for goodness sakes, he didn't even do a surface ban in that film if Marina Del Ray surfacing just minutes after she got promoted is to be believed, and that was despite it playing a large role in the conflict of the film), and if anything, Triton's hatred was directed towards music. MUSIC! It's almost as though the guys who wrote that stupid movie didn't even LOOK at the original film. At least Return to the Sea actually DID try to stay true to the story of the original film, even if it WAS a copy/paste (though that being said, it was a better done film than The Force Awakens despite that).
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Andthatismytwocents — 9 years ago(May 03, 2016 08:53 AM)
In a stage adaptation (NON Broadway) Ursula killed Ariel's Mother
Basically half the staff at Disney (Thank you Katzenberg)see Ariel as a
stereotyped teen Since her father puts restrictions on anything she become curious
Ex If Triton Forbade contact w Blue Striped Yellow fish That's why she would be friends with Flounder
Hence the love /HATE relationship Disney has with film