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Disney is pairing Hamilton‘s Lin-Manuel Miranda with iconic songwriter Alan Menken for a live action feature adaptation of Hans Christian Anderson’s The Little Mermaid. Miranda and Menken will write the music together.

Marc Platt will produce the film along with Miranda, in a configuration just set by Sean Bailey, president of Walt Disney Studios Motion Picture Production. Deadline revealed in May that Disney was figuring out a way to add the classic title to a slate of films based on the studio’s animated films.

This one is being orchestrated as a mix of pre-existing songs from the 1989 Disney animated classic movie, for which Menken won two Oscars, sharing Best Song with Howard Ashman, and winning Best Score on his own. Menken has eight Oscars in his storied career.

They are still working out a lot of details, including the level of Miranda’s involvement. At this point, he isn’t writing the script, but he will supervise the story and the studio will hire a writer shortly.

source: deadline

 

[Betty]

Clamshell bra too?

 

[Inferno313]

Man, that dude's really in deep with Disney, huh? This is his third project over there. Should be dope though, The Little Mermaid is my fiancé's favorite Disney movie, so I'm sure we'll be there Day 0.

 

[EightBitNate]

Man, that dude's really in deep with Disney, huh? This is his third project over there. Should be dope though, The Little Mermaid is my fiancé's favorite Disney movie, so I'm sure we'll be there Day 0.

Working for Disney is a dream for a lot of songwriters.

 

[atr0cious]

Yes please. Now do Alladin.

 

[George Oscar Bluth II]

Oooh yes.

 

[FriendlyGoat]

Man, that dude's really in deep with Disney, huh? This is his third project over there. Should be dope though, The Little Mermaid is my fiancé's favorite Disney movie, so I'm sure we'll be there Day 0.

He's working hard to maximize his chances for an Oscar to out on the shelf next to
his Emmy, two Grammys, three Tonys, Pulitzer Prize, and a MacArthur Genius Award plaque.

 

[RibMan]

Count me in. Absolutely love Menken's work.

Yes please. Now do Alladin.

 

[Inferno313]

Yes please. Now do Alladin.

Gimme Lion King with that Jungle Book tech, oh fuck

 

[HStallion]

I can't wait till the remake Song of the South and have him do the music. Zippity Do Da indeed

 

[SecretMoblin]

Little Mermaid was the best Disney film of that era, Ursula is a GOAT villain


music will be baller

 

[Incandenza]

Man, the man is non-stop

 

[jon bones]

Yes please. Now do Alladin.

👌🏾👌🏾👌🏾

 

[mdphilli]

Man, the man is non-stop

Came for this.

 

[ShadowSwordmaster]

Nice.

 

[JSevere]

aaaaaa this is gonna be so good

 

[Ogodei]

Clamshell bra too?

And Ursula's "body language."

It'll be interesting how they address that sort of thing.

 

[KeyBladerXIII]

Cool, make Ursula and Flotsam/Jetsam super creepy, like Gulper eel level creepy.

Miranda just can't stop, keep going Lin!

 

[Platy]

...what happened to Sofia Coppola's version ?

 

[HeartlessNobody213]

Disney keeping them billions coming.

 

[StopMakingSense]

Lin-Manuel really angling for that EGOT

 

[Discotheque]

Gimme Lion King with that Jungle Book tech, oh fuck

fuck no. they're all just animals, it would be pointless. jungle book tech didn't even look that great imo.

anyways i nominate Future to play Sebastian the Crab. could you imagine a metro boomin produced under the sea? are we even worthy of such a thing....

 

[illmatic22]

Yes please. Now do Alladin.

This. And Lion King. I am ready to cry again.

 

[LucidMomentum]

anyways i nominate Future to play Sebastian the Crab. could you imagine a metro boomin produced under the sea? are we even worthy of such a thing....

:O

I never knew I wanted this.

 

[Skiptastic]

Man, that dude's really in deep with Disney, huh? This is his third project over there. Should be dope though, The Little Mermaid is my fiancé's favorite Disney movie, so I'm sure we'll be there Day 0.

If I had the creativity to do so, I would totally work for Disney.