Live action The Little Mermaid
 

Sofia Coppala is in talks to direct a live action adaption of The Little Mermaid. Hopefully this one will be more true to the original story and be the tragedy that it is.

http://collider.com/sofia-coppola-the-little-mermaid/

Because if there's one thing everyone wants, it's to be completely depressed.

I don't know what to think about this. I'll have to see a trailer and learn more about it before I can judge.

Hm, let's see...no relation to the Disney version...

not interested :P

Well, if the movie totally flops, Disney won't be associated with its failure. But seriously, I hope Universal is prepared to get bombarded with angry letters from a thousand overprotective soccer moms.

What happens in the original story?

The mermaid dies.

We already had one though, it was called Splash with Tom Hanks as the star, may be an old film but still counts right ;)

Prince marries somebody else. Mermaid dies and becomes a wind goddess to earn her soul (because Merfolk are soulless beasts or something) to get into heaven.

To further what Kappa said,the story was about evolution. She was a mermaid and was given legs to become human. This time however the prince was engaged already to a princess and she tried to woo him away. No trade happened but if she failed to woo the prince she was to kill him and drop his blood onto her feet to return to mermaid form. She could not go through with it so she dived into the ocean to become seafoam like all mermaids do after 300 years but her situation of fialling would do it to her 280 some years early. Due to her pure heart the wind people took her before impact with the ocean and she was to become a human soul at the end of the 300 years. So she went from mermaid to human to wind person to human soul. No marriage to a prince as he was already set to marry a princess.

reminds me, can't wait to see how Mero's storyline plays out in Monster Musume

Disney ruin the Little Mermaid imo. They turn one of the greatness tragic stories ever told and made it a happy movie.

Yeah, didn't start a renaissance or anything...

I wanted Aerial to end up with Flounder.

Yes, I am aware I am in dire need of psychiatric counceling.

This is one of those "As a 'A' it's good, as a 'B' it ain't"

As a Disney movie, it's good

as a story adapatation of "The Little Mermaid" it isn't.

I never thought I'd see anyone say this. That would be one weird romance though.

I'm sure I can find one fanfics for that.

Wait a second.. you wanted Ariel to dump Rob Paulsen and fall for Cam Clarke instead?!

who was the original voice of Eric?

I think the guy who did the voice of peter parker in the 90's spiderman cartoon series was the orginal Eric. I don't think that was Rob paulsen in the orginal movie.

Yup, good ol Chris Barnes. Paulsen voiced Eric in... one or was it more of the sequels? Ah, I see he voiced Eric in II. I can't watch the original LM without picturing Ariel saving Spidy! Now that's bada$$. Barnes still does stuff for Disney these days. I was watching Ultimate Spider-Man on Netflix and couldn't help but notice him voicing Electro. Barnes makes a great bad guy.

Hmm, a live action Little Mermaid? Well, I think I'll stick with the Disney version. Doesn't the sea witch also cut out her tongue in the original story? I know I've heard some instance of this happening in one version or another. If I do decide to give this a go, I think I'll wait for the DVD rental.