With Disney making a lot of their animated classics into live-action films, many have wondered when The Little Mermaid will get the same treatment. Well, there is a trailer going around which shows Disney bringing forth the new film with Ariana Grande in the leading role and a star-studded cast around her.
Only…it’s not real.
Many have been sending me messages lately regarding this particular trailer, and I’ve seen a number of people share it on Facebook and Twitter and even in the “I’m So Disney…” group on Facebook. They are excited by the idea that Disney is having The Little Mermaid come to life in live-action.
The only problem with this trailer is that even though it has the Disney logo run at the start of it, it’s not actually a Disney movie. As a matter of fact, it isn’t even anything real at all as the trailer is a concept idea by a YouTube user known as “Tommy Ross.”
As you can see in the embedded video below, it stars Ariana Grande as Ariel, Henry Cavill as Prince Eric, Dwayne Johnson as King Triton, Queen Latifah as Ursula, and a host of others. Other versions on Facebook have shown a host of others, but the footage in the trailer is from one of Grande’s video and clips of other movies that Cavill and Johnson starred in.
You’ll notice Superman and Hercules in a couple of the spots.
For the record…^^^^^^^THIS is not real!^^^^^^^
There is a live-action film called The Little Mermaid which is being released in about 200 AMC Theatres on Aug. 17, 2018, but it isn’t from Disney. It is from Robert Molloy’s Kingsway Productions and stars Poppy Drayton and William Mosely in the Hans Christian Andersen-inspired movie.
Essentially, this article is to make sure that everyone has the correct information as there is currently nothing going on with a live-action version of The Little Mermaid from Disney. Ross even states that his version on YouTube is a “concept trailer.”
Perhaps, in the future, Disney is going to have its live-action of the animated classic come about, but neither the version hitting theaters this month or the concept trailer have anything to do with it.
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