>Melissa McCarthy may be ready to help some poor unfortunate souls in Disney’s live-action version of “The Little Mermaid.”
>Sources tell Variety that while the deal is not yet completed, McCarthy is in early talks to play the sea witch Ursula in the live-action adaptation of “The Little Mermaid.”
>As Disney preps its live-action version of the undersea tale, there’s a lot of buzz about the cast. Disney and the production team behind it are looking to make contemporary and compelling casting choices, while still paying homage to the beloved animated original.
>“Mary Poppins Returns” director Rob Marshall is helming. The film will incorporate the original songs from the 1989 animated hit as well as new tunes from Alan Menken and Lin-Manuel Miranda. Miranda is also producing the film along with Marshall, Marc Platt and John DeLuca. David Magee wrote the script.
>Jessica Virtue and Allison Erlikhman are overseeing for the studio.
This will mark one of the first family-friendly roles for McCarthy, who has built her career on adult comedies including “Spy,” “The Heat” and “Bridesmaids,” which earned her an Oscar nomination for best supporting actress. She was most recently seen in “Can You Ever Forgive Me?,” a dramatic turn that also earned her an Oscar nomination, this time for best actress.
I would never call her sexy, but she was very charismatic and oozing with personality. Ms. McCarthy doesn’t have anything in her resume that makes me believe she can pull that off.
Jaxon Morris
Fair points all.
Jeremiah Watson
I don't care, I wasn't going to see it.
Evan Barnes
Lame. They should've cast Harvey Fierstein.
Sebastian Martinez
Everyone knows Ursula was modeled after a black chick. Get that woman from the gyno-ghostbusters.
Kayden Morris
I'm 200% in, give me more Menken songs
Lucas Turner
Ursula should be black or a man. Her character is flamboyant and feminine with a deep voice, McCarthy’s whole shtick is how gross and unladylike she is, the only thing that she’s got in common with the character is the fact that she’s fat. Honestly I would choose Chris Farley over her if the man was still alive. Jennifer Saunders or Glenn close if it had to be a white woman. I think phylicia rashad looks the part and she could be pretty funny on the cosbey show.
John Carter
>ursula falls over and farts Great.
Blake Lopez
>Everyone knows Ursula was modeled after a black chick Speak for yourself you fucking shit for brains imbecile it's common knowledge that Ursula was modeled after a fat dude wearing a dress.
Literally, unironically, she was designed after Divine, a drag queen
Her song was so good, will they deliver it well on the remake? Also, why they fuck they didn't made a proper Jafar Prince Ali
Isaiah Sullivan
what, was bruce vilanch not available?
Isaac Parker
>Pelirroja inmunda, pez rastrero, escoria del oceano, te estoy hablando a ti.
Jacob Bennett
>will they deliver it well on the remake? Of course not. How many have they fucked up by now? They're not going to do any of them justice of any sort.
Alexander Taylor
If Aladdin is any indication, they put effort into one musical number and half-ass the others. And you know damn well it's going to be Under the Sea.
Zachary Williams
Well, there's another Live Action Disney Remake you can write off, then.
Fuck, man. In the Age of LGBTQIABCDEF, you'd think they'd go in for a drag queen.
Oliver Flores
Nah she can be good if they don't let her improv
Samuel Gomez
user, if he comes back it'll just be for a rescore of the film. "Speechless" in the Aladdin remake wasn't even written by him. We'll have to wait for S3 of Tangled for more Menkino.
Why the fuck don't you automatically write them off you nigger
Tyler Campbell
>In the Age of LGBTQIABCDEF, you'd think they'd go in for a drag queen. Honestly, no, I don't think they would. I know that a lot of people like Ursula as a character, and they like the inspiration, but they don't really like the idea of "let's take this sexually nonconformist person and make them into the villain of the story".
In today's age, they want to make the queer characters into heroes, because in the days of the past, you could only really make them villains. You would never have a drag queen or a gay protagonist in a Disney movie, but it was okay to have a high-pitched-voice-speaking flamboyant evildoer.
>disney will ruin mulan and hercules with live action shit >lilo and stitch hopefully gets under the radar since they could just use moana instead
Samuel Reyes
It's a drag queen thing. She talks and acts and moves like she's Marilyn Monroe with such confidence and sincerity you can help but be charmed
Logan Allen
It didn't sound like him, but I wasn't sure
Ian Sanchez
>Disney not using its devil magic to revive Divine and casting him in the role
Andrew Wilson
Oh, wonderful. That's exactly what we need to make Ursula come to life. Not Pat Carroll's bombastic voice, but rather a whiny schmuck screeching about her vagina.
Oh, well. It's not like I was going to go see it anyway.
Camden Fisher
And not some drag cuck.
Asher Nguyen
Go watch Divine in Pink Flamingos or Female Trouble
Gabriel Roberts
>disney putting a straight white woman in transface
Can she sing.. at all? Honestly getting a woman with as much bite in her voice as Pat Carroll has is what they need to worry about. Not whether or not she's fat enough. Hell a man probably would be better. They're probably too afraid to cast a black woman because mite b raciss.
>Ursula is based on a real life drag queen. >Companies all fall over themselves to appear more woke than each other these days. >Instead of hiring an ugly drag queen to portray Ursula, they just take an already established and already filthy rich comedian. So much for that Disney wokeness. Can't have ugly drag queens in movies aimed at kids. That would carry the risk of hurting the bottom line when angry soccer moms refuse to take their kids to movies.
Is she the only fat girl they could think of? Isn't there a hot one that could play Ursula? Or are they going to try and make Melissa try to be seductive?
Jaxson Myers
Travolta looks like he has down syndrome in drag tho.
Sebastian Long
Hernione couldn't fucking sing either
Cooper Gray
Ursula was designed after a drag queen but she wasn't a drag queen she was just a fat woman
Angel Cox
The original animator animated Ursula as a frumpy fat sea witch, >image very related
Nobody at the studio liked it, so he turned to a "Fabulous" drag queen named Devin for inspiration. She went from looking like a fat slob to a sassy diva and it was approved.
Yeah but who better to portray ugly yet sassy fat women with too much makeup, than drag queen artists specializing in it?
Kayden Rodriguez
except nobody is arguing that except you, /pol/tard.
Angel Sanchez
>Even I'd say 90 percent of them didn't know who the fuck Divine was before this. Seconding this, but to be fair that same audience also pushed for a drag queen to voice a character in Steven Universe. Disney's not touching him after what happened to Bolt.
Nicholas Murphy
Because you're not a faggot.
You should be happy about this.
Fuck off faggot
Alexander Gonzalez
>Can't have ugly drag queens in movies aimed at kids I see nothing wrong with this. Why can't demented faggots keep their shit away from children? Why should Disney encourage that degenerate shit?
No, Ursula is not a drag queen. You've addressed this. So why should the live action version be?
Carson Powell
>not getting Titus in drag Disney making poor choices again I see youtu.be/1mz6tw5Zddg
Is there like a list of Disney cartoons that we can count down how many more of these things we'll have to go through? Little Mermaid Pochohaunttus Mulan Nightmare Before Christmas Peter Pan Seriously, how many more of these are left til we move on?
Christopher Green
Can't wait for Toy Story live action adaptation
Michael Brooks
>Lin-Manuel Miranda He is aweful.
Kevin Smith
Peter Pan has been a fucking stage play back when my grandfather was killing Japs.
Connor Green
Ghetto fat black chicks.
Kayden James
Ariel will be black and Ursula white. What a world to live in
Juan Diaz
Dear god...I never knew. I just met SO many fat chicks in the hood who acted just like Ursula before the movie even was concieved. Wonder if that's where Divine got his act...
John Bennett
So far it seems like Tarzan is the only one safe. At least until Disney gets their hands on the movie rights again.
Henry Butler
Will they paint her purple
Jack Allen
This. Found it delightfully offensive when I saw the headline and most of the reaction beside men in dresses was "that's great". What a back-handed compliment lol
Tyler Perez
>Ariel, King Triton >not race swapped And where do you expect Disney to find actual merfolk to play them?
Zachary Stewart
>mermaids don't exist so Ariel should be black I bet you patted yourself on the back and everything.
David Murphy
>Disney’s live-action version of “The Little Mermaid.” Just fucking stop
William Jackson
Rest in Pepperoni, live action Little Mermaid.
Nolan Lopez
Yeah, honestly, Ursula is one of the few roles I think would’ve been perfect for this or something like it, and they’re kinda wasting the opportunity here.
Jason Edwards
Like she's fat but not nearly venemous enough. Why not just get an actual drag queen? Oh shit, why not get Eddie Izzard?
Dominic Rogers
Nah, drag queens are considered outdated and transphobic right now among the queers, making them problematic. Trannies are insecure at the prospect of men who are comfortable being men who simply wear women’s clothes but don’t mind not being considered literal women and don’t want to chop their dicks off.
Is Lilo and Stitch popular in China? I know it’s huge in Japan, and I can sorta imagine Disney doing a new Lilo and Stitch movie just for Japan. But if it’s big enough in China too, I’d think that’d make it almost a guarantee.
Owen Rogers
Well Divine's too fucking dead.
Cooper Walker
>Why not just get an actual drag queen? See , you'd end up with Emerald's VA in a fat suit.
No, she was a fat octopus person. I don’t know what octopi have going on under their tentacles, but I can only imagine it’s different enough from the human vagina that you’d might as well not call the female comparable to a woman.
I guess the principal should apply to mermaids too, but whatever.
Nicholas Torres
Probably more than even this, but it’s a useful reference.
>I don’t know what octopi have going on under their tentacles, but I can only imagine it’s different enough from the human vagina that you’d might as well not call the female comparable to a woman. It's a real mindfuck.
mermaids are girls so octopus mermaids have octopussies
Charles Jenkins
Oh they do it through the gill thingy on the side? I always thought they did it somewhere near the mouth. This actually makes a little more sense. Still disturbing, of course.
Dylan Diaz
>the dude fists the chick’s ear
Neat.
Thomas Gutierrez
and a lot of males have an extended dong-arm so that if the female decides to eat him he can gtfo quickly.
Jayden Stewart
What the fuck, they do it in the siphon? I already knew male octopi produce sperm using one of their tentacles, but I assumed there was a third hole on females. Or that maybe she absorbed it directly through her skin in some way, like how some squid shoot packets of sperm directly into the body. This is like getting pregnant from a blowjob.
Brayden Hughes
Quads of truth
Parker Kelly
Do they only get one dick arm? It’s really suck if that were the one they lost in a fight or something.
Juan Russell
>contemporary and compelling casting choices We're not getting redheaded Ariel with white porcelain skin aren't we?
Wasn't the tarzan author the white man's burden guy, raise a big enough stink about that and you could probably scare Disney out of making it anyway.
Ian Sullivan
No, I think you’re thinking of Rudyard Kipling, who wrote the Jungle Book. He went on record as having a few really colonialist opinions and I think the “white man’s burden” quote might even come from him.
Edgar Rice Burroughs, who wrote Tarzan, also made Tarzan with an extremely colonial attitude in mind. But I’ve heard he wrote it that way on purpose as a joke. Dunno if he seriously bought into all of it or if he was having a laugh and then it backfired when people loved it unironically.
They're just gonna autotune the shit out of it. The one that's gonna hurt the most is the Hercules remake because fuck, they'll never get the muses right.
Alexander Lewis
>youtube.com/watch?v=1mz6tw5Zddg That's actually pretty damn good. I want him and James Monroe Iglehart to do a musical together.
Owen Harris
Melissa McCarthy isn't a "muh vagina", she's a "muh obesity"
Caleb Evans
>Titus unexpectedly based casting
Jayden Lee
They should have cast a skinny woman as Ursula and had her put on weight for the role ha ha wouldn't that be weird
Colton Torres
I honestly like melissa mccarthy but wtf there is no way she'll be able to live up to original performance at all
