Little Mermaid Live-Action Movie Will Feature 4 New Songs

Alan Menken, composer of the unique The Little Mermaid talks about returning to attain the brand new live-action movie and including new songs to the rating.

Alan Menken, composer for Disney’s upcoming live-action The Little Mermaid remake has confirmed the movie will characteristic 4 completely new songs. Menken, who served as the unique composer for the 1989 animated Little Mermaid movie, has lengthy been a Disney stalwart who has additionally lent his skills to every little thing from Magnificence and the Beast and Aladdin to Enchanted and Tangled. All through his illustrious profession, Menken has racked up a powerful eight Academy Awards, eleven Grammys, and 7 Golden Globes.

Helmed by Mary Poppins Returns and Into the Woods director Rob Marshall, The Little Mermaid is the most recent in a sequence of live-action variations of Disney’s traditional animated characteristic movies. Starring Halle Bailey as Ariel, Jonah Hauer-King as Prince Eric, and Melissa McCarthy as Ursula, the movie additionally options the voices of Daveed Diggs as Sebastian the crab and Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings’ Awkwafina as Scuttle. Within the very early levels of improvement, it was introduced that Menken could be returning to attain the movie, with producer Lin-Manuel Miranda.

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Most just lately, Menken sat down with Disney’s For Scores podcast (by way of Variety) and confirmed that the movie will characteristic 4 new songs. He additionally recalled that Miranda was “daunted” by the prospect of following on within the footsteps of the late Howard Ashman, the lyricist who labored with Menken to write down the unique movie’s award-winning songs. Try his feedback under:

At first, Lin-Manuel Miranda was struggling to do Alan Menken-style songs, and he felt like, strolling in Howard Ashman’s footwear was a frightening prospect.  Then we wrote some songs that had been in Lin’s wheelhouse and for me, strolling in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s footwear was a frightening prospect, however we had a blast.

The concept of the brand new live-action adaptation that includes unique music will most likely come as little shock to Disney followers. Over the previous few years, the studio’s earlier variations of their animated properties have usually diverted from the unique movies in some ways, some extra profitable than others. Whereas 2017’s Magnificence and the Beast and 2019’s Aladdin additionally featured unique songs, 2020’s Mulan disenchanted some followers by forgoing the musical facet of the unique movie altogether.

Nonetheless, with the unique Little Mermaid being the movie accountable for kickstarting the much-beloved “Disney Renaissance” throughout the 1990s, followers are anticipated to be doubly vital of any perceived mistreatments of the animated traditional. Fortunately, from a musical perspective, the live-action The Little Mermaid has the extraordinary advantage of not solely with the ability to faucet into the information and expertise of the movie’s unique composer, nevertheless it additionally has Miranda’s unimaginable skills to attract upon as nicely. Solely time will inform if these new additions to the rating could have the identical impression on audiences as songs like “Below the Sea” and “Kiss the Woman.”

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Supply: Variety

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