Ik this cant happen but the muses should be Aretha Franklin, Tina Turner, Whitney Houston, Jada Pinkett Smith, Beyoncé, and Janelle Monae. Those are my choices. I really like Pinkett as I love her metal band and I think it would be a cool different take
I hope so too. I want Hercules like Aladin live action movie, fun, entertaining, has his own thing but at the same time being the same as the original and the songs. Besides, Hercules being a musical will make it different from the other Hercules live action we seen before, even thought there were not from Disney but the general public not know that.
Out of all the remakes I've only really enjoyed Cinderella (which is probably due to the costume design) but I'm cautiously looking forward to The Little Mermaid bc I love Halle.
Now that they own Fox, I wish they would make an Anastasia live-action featuring the music from the animated movie. Once upon a december is such a classic.
@@rickybaker5579 it wasn't successful, it didn't get a return on its investment even after 3 years on Broadway and critics weren't too kind on the weirdly constructed show. Luckily the international company Stage Entertainment was involved with the production so the international distribution was assured.
Speaking as an Italian-- yes, we want an actor of Italian descent. Preferably from Italy. No mocking our accent and "over the top" hand gestures. The Pinocchio fairytale is ripped from the heart of the Northern Italian mountains, let's celebrate our beautiful land.
ahahah... hanno basato mulan 2020, un classico enorme famosissimo, di una cultura che prende1/7 della popolazione mondiale senza essere fedeli nemmeno un pò a tal punto che una ragazza con origini cinesi dice quanto quel film faccia cagare con al sua premessa di "fedeltà alla cultura".... secondo lei.. lo faranno davvero con pinocchio?
Halle Bailey has been killing all her quarantine performances!! She’s proven she’s perfect for Ariel at this point I hope everyone else on the project can deliver
qdominik aa she’s been on tv before, she’s an actress, everyone calls her an unknown actress that they’ve never even heard. Well that’s because she on a black based tv show. If she were on a show were she was the comic relief as the only black girl she would’ve gotten all the attention, although she technically is the comic relief in the show but there’s more to her character then that
The Little Mermaid was my absolute favorite movie growing up and still holds a special place in my heart so I’m more than excited to see the amazing job I know Halle Bailey is going to do as a more cast appropriate Ariel.
@@jfkonlsd1364 Hollywood has always been a soulless money grabs factory, since its golden era. Even though, often they can come with well-made money grabs.
JFK on LSD the only ones I thought were soulless were Beauty and the Beast and The lion king I hated both of them but enjoyed all the other Disney live action films who doesn’t want to see beloved films made with real people I definitely do🙋♀️
Girl, have you ever been in Italy ? No cuz I’m Italian, the film TOTALY LOOKS ITALIAN. We have Carlotta, Vanessa and Ursula, Italian names, Eric’s castle COMPLEATLY looks like Castello Boccale in Italy, locations looks like Sardinian coast and cities, Ursula spell and contract is in Latin, talked in Italy in past. The only right thing is that the music is pretty Caribbean So please, I’ve always supported you, in everything, but please please, say right things
Again, the original filmmakers said TLM has a MEDITERRANEAN setting, not Italian. That could mean Greece, South of France, Spain, Croatia... any country around the Mediterranean Sea. And they were referring to the architecture. Only ONE character is Jamaican (Sebastian), and only his two songs have a caribbean influence. All other songs are in different styles.
Glad to see more people know this. It's honestly incredibly ridiculous that people think just because of Sebastian and his two songs (who was actually supposed to be British btw) that the movie is set in the Caribbean and discount EVERYTHING else that supports otherwise. King Triton is a Greek God ffs. Lol Why would he and his kingdom be just south of Florida. Lmao
@@ryanb.7482 Yeah, makes no sense. I also think people these days have a weird need to link fantasy locales to real places (so they can judge their veracity to that culture perhaps?)... all these fairy tales take place in an imaginary world, in a "faraway kingdom". Not in France, not in Germany, not in Norway.
What about Anastasia, yes it was/is a fox movie but Disney now own Fox and a lot of people think it was a Disney movie in the 1st place and Disney needs to start making money off them buying fox.
I feel like Disney making an Anastasia movie won’t happen for the same reasons they won’t do a live action Pocahontas. They were real people and the movies romanticize what actually happened to them. Just my two cents
@@jordanclayborn410 Anna is the best princess if they would've only done her right in the second movie. I did fear that it would be more about Elsa, but I at least hoped it'd still be a fun adventure with the sisters getting closer together, instead it was a borefest that had them get further and further apart. I actually wouldn't have responded except that it's hard to not see red when People call Mulan great considering that the people in her society cannot value her no matter how honor she brings with her, int heir society she is USELESS if she doesn't have a man.
Melanie Trader Mulan was a real person. Everyone knows that Pocahontas isn’t how it really went down. Anastasia is actually one of the most interesting stories made into a movie. I don’t see the problem
Cruella with its 70's punk rock energy sounds heavenly. I'm from the Caribbean and don't see those references in the little mermaid except for Sebastian's accent. After all, it's a European story with Greek gods.
So far, Cinderella is the only movie that I feel translated well and expanded on the original story in its live action adaptation. The rest of them are either OK or bad. Nothing has been amazing. I'm really excited about Little Mermaid and I might end up watching Cruella but the rest I'm not that fussed.
People don't look like cartoons at all. Emma Watson is nothing like Belle. Sure, Liu Yfei is asian, but she doesn't have Mulan's round face. Literally, every live action Disney princess is nothing like the animated counterparts. When it comes to Ariel, her skin is just a small detail.
I was upset about the casting at first, but now I'm most excited about The Little Mermaid. It's my favorite Disney movie, and after seeing Halle sing I think she can definitely pull off the songs
@@idaf3028 It'll be interesting to see how well the performers can pull off the swimming motion as if their bottom half was a tail, then merging the CGI
@@ejoshcoron that’s what actors are for, and when they do their interviews after the movie comes out they’ll tell us how they coped and how it was done and all of that. And production finishes in July and they’ll probably give us the date in late 2021 like December.
The Little Mermaid was NOT set in the Caribbean! Prince Eric was NOT the prince of the Caribbean! This is my favorite Disney movie and have seen enough behind the scenes making of videos to know this was based in Europe. I had the hope I would see the cartoon come to life but since they decided to not give us that, I won’t be watching. It’s a shame they tried to be close to the original with the previous ones but decided to experiment with this one.
Right! Its just money grabbing and hype. The fact that ariel was the only race bending shows you how much of a cash grab it is. Since when are disney movies supposed to be based on historical accuracy? Because if thats the case we would not have Pocahontas since she much younger and was raped .Hercules wouldnt have black muses since all roman/greek gods were white.
Grace if they wanted someone region appropiate for the Little Mermaid, maybe they should've picked an actual actress from the Caribbean. Not an American. And it's not as if the Caribbean is not diverse... There's black people, white people, indigenous, people of Asian descent and so many mixed races. Moreover Spanish is spoken by the 64 % of the population and French by the 25 %, making them the most spoken languages in the area. Yet they went for an English-speaking (who just represent a 14 % of the Caribbean) Black American from Atlanta. Hmmmm. I have nothing against Halle, truly wish her the best, but wanting to use the representation card for someone who has nothing to do with that region... Not okay.
Grace, the Little Mermaid is a Danish story, written by a Danish author. Going by your logic, the actress playing Ariel should be Danish, otherwise it is culturally appropriating a Scandinavian legend. Mermaids aren't even a Caribbean legend, they are a European legend (sirens and naiads from Greece, rusalkas from Eastern Europe, hafmeyjan from Scandinavia...)
This She's drink too much of the koolaid on cheap diversity than actual effort with no brand relevance to piggyback it Just more cheap marketing tactic by disney, same to mulan and aladdin
yes the original story is danish, the disney adaptation isn't set anywhere specific, so it doesnt matter. and the live action is doing the animated 1989 adaptation not the tale.
The little mermaid has got to deliver!!! Mulan has made us eager to see positive changes. I hope an alternative ending that goes with the original story. Obviously for the dvd release cause it’s too sad haha.
Disney would NEVER do the original story ending; as unfortunate as that is. Disney is too child oriented, especially it’s princess line and they wouldn’t want kids to think Ariel is dead.
I have not spent a penny for these Disney live action remakes, and I wish Disney would STOP making these atrocities! The animated films are better, and should be treated with more respect.
Why should they stop making them? They aren't hurting your originals and like you said you have the choice to see them or not. They are there so it makes no sense for them to stop since they are making money so someone wants to see them.
You can’t really judge if you haven’t seen any of them. Yes not all of the live action movies make it, but some of them are just as great as Disney’s original animation.
Grace, you're entitled to like Ariel's casting, of course. And if you want to find reasons to justify it, fine. You can say: "I think it makes sense for this version of Ariel to look Caribbean because the movie has Caribbean themes." But to claim that an iconic white character based in Danish culture should always have been black on moral grounds, because there's a singing Jamaican lobster in her animated movie, is too far. If Ariel were a character from, let's say, Hawaiian culture, and she had a very posh British crab as a sidekick in her animated movie, you would never, in a million years, suggest that Ariel should also be white and British. On the contrary: You'd defend Ariel's Hawaiian ethnicity with your life. So please treat white characters by the same standard as non-white characters.
The movie is set in the Caribbean. It´s established in Disney merchandise and even the live action movie will film in Puerto Rico. Having said that THERE´S NO REASON for casting a black actress in the role. On the one hand white Caribbean people exist. On the other, she´s not even Caribbean. That´s actually "cultural appropiation".
niki don there’s such thing as hair dye you know. Even if she was a natural red head because blacks can have red hair naturally, my aunt actually does. Then she’d still probably have to dye her hair a certain shade to help the look come to life more
When I heard they were making a Hunchback movie I'm really hoping they'd pull from the stage musical because it was so brilliant. I love the animated Hunchback, but love the musical even more.
Just a little history lesson: Caribbean doesnt equal black. There were indegenous tribes there first and black ppl were brought there through slavery. Black ppl are as native to the Caribbean as white ppl are. Just saying...
THANK YOU!!! I´m Puerto Rican and I´m white. And just to give examples of famous white Puerto Ricans: Lana Parrilla/Evil Queen (Once Upon a Time), Benicio del Toro, Marc Anthony...
Grace as much as I respect you and your work I have to say I find it a little bit insensitive when you say that casting a white actor isn’t representative of the Caribbean because I have Several friends who are white and come from the Caribbean. I don’t think you should generalize the entirety of the Caribbean of being mostly black when in reality The majority population varies depending on which location with in the Caribbean you are referring to.
I knew someone would eventually bring this up. Yes, the place you're born doesn't make you belong to a race, but Ariel never made sense, she's a redhead and redheads freckle and turn red under the sun (they don't tan like others, but their skin burns and turns red)
@Jun Lenoir I think it's incredibly ignorant for you to tell people like Brim Ori to look up statistics on the Caribbean, when they themselves already know the statistics of the Caribbean because of their experience living there.
One thing on why I adore you, Grace, and why I always felt you deserve at least 10M subscribers is you're quite hilarious! It's informed hilarity. This like your own monologue. Your improv skills and fast wit is still in you naturally.
More so when there are plenty white Caribbean people and placing a random black actress that has no Caribbean heritage actually is making the statement of "cultural appropiation".
HUGE PASS on the new little mermaid live action! 😑😑😑 The Little Mermaid is a Danish story, set in Denmark, created by our Danish author Hans Christian Andersen. So saying that it's Caribbean because of a crab song created in 1989 really comes off as ignorance towards the Danish culture.
No where did it say the little mermaid was in the caribbean! sebastian the crab was from the Caribbean. You do know people or creatures can migrate. I think the idea of taking about where a Disney movie should take place is just stupid!
Biggest joke being that if Disney truly wanted a ''diverse princess'' they could had genuinely done Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters. That's the only story about a princess that I actually read as a kid. Knowing Disney, they'll likely ruin the story just like they have been doing with the cheap cash grabs they keep making (exception Cinderella).
Also want to point out.... the indigenous people of the caribbean are NOT black, they are the taino people. Black people were "brought" to the Caribbean the same way they were "imported" to the USA
Yeyyy, more cashcows for years to come. Thanks Disney! Btw, if Pinocchio has to be cast with italians because of it being an italian fairy tale then the little mermaid should be cast with scandinavian actors and actresses. Just sayin....
Cuba is by far the largest country both geographically and population in the Caribbean. 2/3rds of Cubans self-identify as white, of which 90% were found to have European genetics. Puerto Rico has 76% that self-identify as white. Dominican Republic is at least 16% white. Even the islands that are undoubtedly thought of as 'black' like the Bahamas and Barbados often have white populations of approximately 5%. Trinidad and Tobago is 38% Indian (ancestors from India, not 'native Americans')! And 24% are mixed. The Caribbean nations are often very mixed - black, white, Indian, Chinese, indigenous, etc.
There aren't any other than Sebastian-related ones... He's the only Caribbean reference in the film. Grace is really stuck on using this as an excuse for Ariel's casting.
@@no1wonderfan921 how does it not make sense? Can you not read? regardless of whether or not it "makes sense" to you, live action Ariel is black and you're just gonna have to deal lol
Ok Grace, if they’re gonna make Ariel black then they should make Tiana from the Princess and the frog white. Because you know, “cultural appropriation”. 🙄
The actress that played Ariel in Once Upon a Time is Cuban...and white!!! How shocking the discovery that becuase Spain conquered and setttled on the Caribbean there´s that heritage and white people there. Puerto Rico, Cuba and Dominican Republic aren´t Jamaica.
I'm actually excited about all of them although I'm more excited about Cruella, the little mermaid, and Peter & Wendy. Infact what gets me most excited about the little mermaid is how the film is going to look visually because something to note about the films that Rob Marshall has made for Disney (pirates of the Caribbean 4, into the woods, and Mary Poppins Returns) is that the cinematography is just absolutely amazing and with the film having this European setting there is no doubt in my mind its going to look amazing. The only thing about the film that I'm curious to see what they do are the scenes underwater. Some might say oh well they'll do something similar as to what they did in one musical number in mary poppins returns as well what Warner Bros. and DC did in 2018's Aquaman; and while I can't I disagree however you never know what the director might decide. With that said what gets me excited about Peter & Wendy is how Lowery is going to approach it because when you look at his filmography he has this approach that not too many directors have and when he was announced as the director of disney's peter pan movie he was in fact a great choice and so with that said I wish him as well as Jude law (who honestly is a really good casting choice for captain hook who I am going to have to avoid comparing him to Dustin Hoffman because Hoffman in Hook actually does kinda look like Disney's version of the character the more you think about it) Good luck.
Still insist. Grace, if you are going to push Disney’s choice for Ariel because you say the movie is set in “the caribbean” even though it is a European story; you’d better push an Italian Geppetto and a Greek cast for Hercules. My best friend is Lebanese and she refused to see Aladdin because she said there is no way an Arabic woman looks like Naomi Scott. So please be consistent with your recommendations and choices. It’s like if you tell me they make the Emperor’s New Groove and you don’t push put a Latin actor. Some consistency, please.
Darling, there's a difference between race and skin color. Just because someone doesn't look their race doesn't mean their not, the same goes for skin color. What Grace points out was simply to have more representation, which includes both aspects, not one or the other.\
Braveheart 1997 And believe me, nobody knows this more than me. As a light skin latin, I never see myself anywhere. That doesn’t mean I am not a proud latin. Or that I feel bad for not been represented anywhere. Each country has different races and ethnicities.
If I'm honest two characters that OUAT actually I have to admit did really well reimagining in a cool way were Cruella and Rumplestiltskin so I'm so pumped for Emma's movie cause I also like her as an actress
Perfect example on how animated doesn't always translate well to live-action is The Lion King. Just something about 2D, hand-drawn animations that really can't be captured with CGI or real people.
Rob marshal to me is the best choice for directing the little mermaid. He is behind three of the most successful movie musical from the 21st century Chicago, into the woods, and Mary Poppins returns.
I don't want to see the Little Mermaid movie because they are making Ariel black especially if her love interest is white 🤦🏿♂️ If you're going to change the color of Ariel from being a red-headed white Mermaid to a black Mermaid with dreadlocks that means that the King better be black and her love interest better be black as well. Black people prefer original black characters being made and not changing White characters to Black characters just to fit a narrative
@M The animated Disney movie The Little Mermaid is based on the 1837 Danish fairy tale of the same name by Hans Christian Andersen as some of us may know, but it was created by a white man and he depicted the characters as white in his book and Disney depicted all of them as white in their animation because the character is historically a White red-headed mermaid. Now if this was a completely New Mermaid story that wasn't a remake of the classic one that we all are familiar with that had completely different characters and a different storyline than no one would have a problem with that but because that's not the status it's problematic. It's reverse whitewashing and because I don't support the whitewashing of historical black ▪️Indian▪️ and Chinese characters I'm not in support of turning white characters black!
@@a.b.5473 Oh trust me I already know that every race will be representing in this version of the movie, all of Ariel's sisters (Attina, Alana, Adella, Aquata, Arista, Andrina) will probably be of different ethnicities and look more like a foster care family, for some weird reason Disney loves portraying their characters coming from a broken home where one of the parents are missing, it's almost always a single parent home with Disney 🤷🏿♂️🤦🏿♂️
I’m so excited for The little mermaid!! I love Halle so much and I think she’s perfect for the role of Ariel, also I love Lin’s music and lyrical talent. Truly can’t wait
I'm fine with racebending Ariel because at this point "whatever", but not because the original one was cultural appropriation if it was established that only Sebastian is from Jamaica. Like that's what he says throughout the movie and the show: that he came from Jamaica.
I actually have a wish list for future remakes: 1. Atlantis - Tom Holland as Milo Thatch has to happen 2. Treasure Planet 3. The Incredibles - Remaking a 2004 film with a recent sequel maybe to soon, but vFX capabilities are there and this would absolutely print money in our Superhero Era.. 4. The Emperor's New Groove -More opportunities for Hispanic and South American Representation
I don't understand the "cultural appropriation" of The Little Mermaid? I don't remember the cartoon only the orignal story, but it's a Danish fairytale, and in it she's described as "her skin was as clear and delicate as a rose petal, her eyes as blue as the deepest sea"
Josh Gad and Hunchback?? I am very for this but, I do hope it's a bit of a darker story. The Broadway version is amazing and I think putting Gad on Hunchback is a great idea.
Being from the Caribbean let me tell u we are a diverse community of many races, ethnicities & cultures. If u knew/understood our history with slavery, indentured laborers from asia & the growing influx of americans u would know u dont *have* to make Ariel any specific race. Same I imagine with Italy. So no cultural appropriation to talk abt here.
Yet the little mermaid takes specifically from Afro Caribbean culture, something that White people or Asian people aren’t emerged in nor had a part in cultivating. You don’t take from west African culture and then cast white South Africans.
@@basebenthem1080 Ironically, given the European history of "The Little Mermaid" if anything its black-washing & culturally appropriating white culture to cast a black girl in the main role. U might even say race-baiting since Disney is known to pander to certain crowds in order to promote their intellectual properties.
@@gstone8255 you seem triggered, however in the it was also the songs were caribbean influenced....maybe I'm missing a reference in the movie can you tell me, besides the original story, where there is danish influence
It's Italy, actually. I'm like the biggest Little Mermaid fan ever. But the place where the story is set doesn't matter at all. I mean, it's a fairytale world, isn't it?
