However, Coppola eventually left Universal’s The Little Mermaid after she and the studio experienced some of those dreaded creative differences.
Sofia Coppola has a darker vision in mind for Universal’s adaptation of The Little Mermaid, before she left the project.
In a recent talk, Coppola addressed the Little Mermaid movie she walked away from and revealed what sort of movie she had in mind (obviously it was a very different movie than Universal was envisioning).
Now with Universal launching their Dark Universe, it’s fun to imagine what might have happened had Coppola stayed on-board The Little Mermaid and continued developing it along the darker lines she envisioned.