Alan Menken said that originally the film was supposed to happen before the live-action remake of
Aladdin. However, since the producer Marc Platt and Menken's co-songwriter Lin Manuel Miranda are working on
Mary Poppins Returns, he shifted focus to
Aladdin.
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And up next is a live-action Little Mermaid?
But first is a live-action Aladdin, most people don’t know that. First there was a live-action Little Mermaid, but both the producer and my collaborator on that, Lin-Manuel Miranda, are working on Mary Poppins in London, so Aladdin has now jumped ahead of it and that’s what I’m in the thick of now.
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