Plenty more fish in the sea… Halle Bailey has promised that her portrayal of Ariel will be more “nuanced” than Disney’s 1989 animated version of the Little Mermaid. Disney’s live-action produced remake of the classic musical fantasy is set to arrive in just two months time. For those who haven’t seen the Little Mermaid the […]

3 years ago

What was the need? An artificial intelligence  artist has faced the fury of the internet after editing Disney’s new The Little Mermaid teaser trailer by replacing actor Halle Bailey with a white woman. The trailer for the live action remake, which has been watched 16 millions times via the Walt Disney YouTube channel, has been […]

3 years ago

It comes after racists started questioning the casting of a black actor in the new movie The Little Mermaid being black makes scientific sense, a marine biologist has suggested. A trailer for the much-anticipated, live-action reboot of the classic 1989 cartoon film was shown to Disney insiders during the D23 Expo last week – a […]

3 years ago

The platform has had to disable the dislike counter The live action trailer for The Little Mermaid was released by Disney at their D23 Expo fan convention this weekend to much excitement and fanfare, but within two days that hype has all but been eclipsed. As of Tuesday evening, it had more than 1.5 million dislikes […]

3 years ago