One major departure is the fact that the main character "Ariel" is so ... Jonas Collin. When Andersen began composing "The Little Mermaid" in 1836, he was "in a funk," according to literary ...

Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid has inspired countless adaptations ... musical showcase. The character of a sea witch offering dangerous deals traces back to Andersen’s original ...

Danish author Hans Christian Andersen wrote "The Little Mermaid," one of his many children's fairy tales. Andersen's version of the mermaid's tale was followed closely by Disney animators in the ...

Meet the creatures that really are part of your world. Disney’s 1989 retelling of Hans Christian Andersen’s fairytale The Little Mermaid brought a host of iconic characters into our lives. With the ...

Andersen’s sad personal life unavoidably influences how his stories of downtrodden and pitiful characters are interpreted. In the case of the Little Mermaid, there is a close connection between ...

As she has with previous interpretations of classics, Zwerger (Alice in Wonderland) works from Bell's faithful translation of Andersen's ... in which the little mermaid, now a "child of the ...

despite a few key characters portrayed by performers of color. More recently, after the trailer dropped for Disney's live action reboot of The Little Mermaid, racists complained about Halle Bailey ...

Hauer-King also spoke to Marshall about making Prince Eric more of a three-dimensional character. Jonah Hauer-King portrays Prince Eric in “The Little Mermaid” live action film. "We wanted to ...

Admirers of the beloved 1989 animated classic “The Little Mermaid” are justified to ... as the blandly handsome Prince Eric, he sells the character’s new power ballad in his what-the-boy ...

The live-action remake of The Little Mermaid is precisely one month away from its theatrical release, and Disney has revealed colorful posters for Ariel and some of the other characters.