An unmade live-action Little Mermaid movie lost an acclaimed female director because a studio executive wanted it to appeal to older men.
Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Sofia Coppola opens up about why she exited Universal's unmade live-action Little Mermaid movie. Disney's live-action remake of its 1989 animated movie, which itself is based on the fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen, was directed by Rob Marshall and released in theaters in May 2022 to mixed reviews and was deemed a box office disappointment after failing to break even.
During a recent interview with Rolling Stone, Coppola opened up about why she exited Universal's unmade live-action Little Mermaid movie. The acclaimed director recalled hitting "a breaking point" when a Universal executive wanted the movie to appeal to older men. Read her Coppola's full comments below:
Yes, there was . I was in a boardroom and some development guy said, "What’s gonna get the 35-year-old man in the audience?" And I just didn’t know what to say. I just was not in my element. I feel like I was naive, and then I felt a lot like the character in the story, trying to do something out of my element, and it was a funny parallel of the story for me.
What Sofia Coppola's Live-Action Little Mermaid Would Have Looked Like In her own words, Coppola's live-action Little Mermaid "wasn’t the Disney version." Instead, it was a closer adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's original fairy tale in the sense that it was "much darker." Coppola also intended to film The Little Mermaid underwater, similar to what James Cameron later achieved with Avatar: The Way of Water.
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