Like its animated predecessor, the live-action Little Mermaid will follow Halle Bailey’s Ariel desperately wanting to live on the surface with humans, and she eventually trades her voice to the sea witch Ursula, played by Melissa McCarthy, to accomplish this.
Rob Marshall, who has directed Disney movies like Into the Woods and Mary Poppins Returns, helmed The Little Mermaid, and Alan Menken, who scored and co-wrote songs for the original Little Mermaid, reprised his composing duties and worked on new songs with Hamilton’s Lin-Manuel Miranda.
The remake’s cast also includes Javier Bardem as King Triton, Jonah Hater-King as Eric, Daveed Diggs as Sebastian, Jacob Tremblay as Flounder and Awkwafina as Scuttle.