>A few weeks back reports surfaced that Harry Styles was in talks to play opposite of Halle Bailey in The Little Mermaid live action remake as Prince Eric. The DisInsider has been recently informed that Styles has officially signed on to the project.
>Harry Styles is known for his time in the popular boyband, One Direction and he also played a minor role in Christopher Nolan’s war drama, Dunkirk as Alex. He was also recently in talks to play Elvis for the Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis biopic, but was beaten out for the role by Austin Butler.
>Alan Menken is remastering his original “The Little Mermaid” score for the film and is writing a song with Moana composer, Lin-Manuel Miranda. While Prince Eric doesn’t have any songs in the original The Little Mermaid, the singer joining Bailey is a strong sign that this will change in the remake. Styles and Bailey are incredible singers who will take on Alan Menken’s remastered Little Mermaid songs and new ones, too.
>Also in talks to join Disney’s upcoming remake is Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales star Javier Bardem is in talks to play Ariel’s father King Triton Melissa McCarthy, Jacob Tremblay, and Awkwafina who are circling Ursula, Ariel’s best friend Flounder, and Scuttle.
Who fucking cares if you go or you don't, it'll make a fortune anyways.
Christopher Garcia
>two for one package deal Damn, Eric got it good
Gavin Anderson
All I care about is if the music is good, but seeing as how they ruined BatB, Aladdin, and Lion King with horrible autotune, I don't have a lot of hope
>John Legend, who is being eyed for Sebastian fuckin wot
Aaron Mitchell
>All I care about is if the music is good odd considering the little mermaid's music sucked
Dominic Hernandez
This is exactly what happened with the Princess and the Frog. Disney gave them a black princess and they bitched about how she changes into a frog amongst a bunch of other things.
>These announcements drew criticism from African-American media outlets, due to elements of the Frog Princess story, characters, and settings considered distasteful.[23][24] African-American critics disapproved of the original name for the heroine, "Maddy", due to its similarity to the derogatory term "mammy".[23] Also protested were Maddy's original career as a chambermaid,[24] the choice to have the black heroine's love interest be a non-black prince, which upset opponents of on-screen interracial romance,[23] and the use of a black male voodoo witchdoctor as the film's villain.[23] The Frog Princess title was also thought by critics to be a slur on French people.[25] Also questioned was the film's setting of New Orleans, which had been heavily damaged by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, resulting in the expulsion of a large number of mostly black residents.[26] Critics claimed the choice of New Orleans as the setting for a Disney film with a black heroine was an affront to the Katrina victims' plight.
>"In response to these early criticisms, the film's title was changed in May 2007 from The Frog Princess to The Princess and the Frog. The name "Maddy" was changed to "Tiana",[25][27] and the character's occupation was altered from chambermaid to waitress.[23] Talk show host Oprah Winfrey was hired as a technical consultant for the film, leading to her taking a voice-acting role in the film as Tiana's mother, Eudora.[12]"
Trying to seem progressive always draws more attention which leads to more scrutiny, and ironically more claims of racism/sexism/etc. (and this is coming from someone who likes Princess and the Frog).
>American critics disapproved of the original name for the heroine, "Maddy", due to its similarity to the derogatory term "mammy" are you fucking serious what planet do these people live on
Matthew Martin
>she'll cuck him >with her own father
Adam Jackson
>the Frog Princess title was also thought by critics to be a slur on French people Hah, really?
Grayson Thompson
Why is Superman trying to get me to drink?
Jacob Collins
>Imagine
Cameron Mitchell
So you’ll stop being such a little cocktease and have some fun, bro.
I guess the backlash got to him because news sites are now posting that he passed on the project. They'll keep going until they get black Eric and the project officially becomes "the black little mermaid no one remembers"
Jonathan Hill
that doesn't make any sense nigga
Cooper Taylor
Eh, he was fine in Dunkirk.
Christopher Scott
You've never heard that term before? "merman" is common too, but I've heard 'triton' used in certain places as well.
Benjamin Reed
That'd be one thing if there wasn't already a character WITH that name
Zachary Miller
Yeah, confusing.
Nathaniel Butler
Well, they lost the black audience with this. No black man is going to sit down and watch a movie about a black girl lusting over a white guy.
Logan Brown
Eh. Racists gonna racist.
Jacob Sanders
He isn't that hot
Aaron Peterson
Woke broke and SJW BTFO amirightfellas?
David Gray
Singer-turned-actor John Legend is rumored to be in contention to voice Sebastian the crab.
It looks like he turned down the role from recent news.
William Edwards
well, on one hand, it ruins the entire point of the story if the mermaids and humans look like different races, so one can't reasonably masquerade as another on the other hand, his face is fucking deformed, just like hers. They'll have little mocha frog babies.
Angel Wood
planet GET ANGRY AND STAY ANGRY
Easton Jones
So which fucking is it Do any of you fuckasses have a source?
Xavier Cooper
triton is the correct name see, a lot of mythological creatures derive their names from deities and other legendary figures. for example any winged horse is a pegasus, because of the original handcrafted pegasus, and any dragon-winged snake-tailed tornado-breathing donkey is a typhon because typhon was the father of a ton of monsters, and that's a fucking messed up thing to see.
King Triton is named after the son of the sea god, and tritons are named after him too, but in an illustrative manner. It's like how any random Russian guy is 'Ivan' but that's also a name you can have.
So it’s the black Little Mermaid now. And a white guy has to turn down a role that was a white guy because the other character who was white is now black, and a black character can’t be in love with a white character, unless it’s a black dude and a white chick.
>Alan Menken again Nothing against the guy, but what the fuck is the point of bringing back the same person to remake the score. It’s not like they’ve invented a new instrument that’ll revolutionize the original music
Christopher Johnson
Gonna be a black dude.
Anthony Martinez
I know nothing about this guy, but he kinda looks like the animated Eric.
Jackson Harris
>Also in talks to join Disney’s upcoming remake is Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales star Javier Bardem
For a second I misread this as Disney planning to make a live action Pirates of the Carribean remake, which would be rather silly.
Camden Butler
Disney wants Javier Bardem as King Triton, that tells me the film is gonna be like the Brandy Cinderella movie
>Talk show host Oprah Winfrey was hired as a technical consultant for the film, leading to her taking a voice-acting role in the film as Tiana's
. It's like they made Oprah Pope of all black people. What makes her more qualified than literally any other black person if they're only basing it on her being black?
Parker Foster
Oprah is the Emperor of black people Beyonce is Darth Vader of black people
Cooper Bennett
If not Eric, who should be Disney's first live action black prince Yea Forums?
Joshua Lopez
That kinda reminds me of the way we use "lamia" today. 10 years ago or so, there was a lot of using of different terms for "snake lady." I saw lamia sometimes, but mostly naga. One of the reasons people use lamia might be, arguably, from FF4; there was an enemy called "lamia" (and also a few sprite recolors) named after a greek character, who wasn't a snake lady at all. The lamia sprite was hot and a snake lady and people took it to mean that the name of that monster in that game was what they were called. Not an unfair assumption really.
>What makes her more qualified than literally any other black person if they're only basing it on her being black? She got the most money. She on TV. She got books.
Jace Moore
Some people spend nearly every waking hour of every waking day just looking for stupid shit to get offended about.
>black woman leaves her kingdom and everything behind after meeting her white savior Oh, I;m sure people will LOVE this. There goes the browny points Disney got for making her black.
Ian James
Where the hell is his next album?
Wyatt Robinson
More like BEACHED
Luis Edwards
Progressives never cease to amaze me on how batshit crazy they are.
