This Friday fans of The Little Mermaid will finally get to see one of the most highly anticipated upcoming Disney movies with the new live-action remake. However, if you just can’t wait, don’t forget that there is already another live-action Disney movie directed by Rob Marshall that features mermaids, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. While the film isn’t the most beloved in its own franchise, it turns out the movie did serve a purpose as a launching point for The Little Mermaid.
While the mermaids in On Stranger Tides are a small part of the larger film, producer John DeLuca told EW that the sequence, in which a group of Blackbeard’s pirates attempts to capture a mermaid, was something the film spent a great deal of time on. Director Rob Marshall says the mermaid scenes from the Pirates of the Caribbean movie were shown to The Little Mermaid crew to act as a starting off point for the new film. He explained…
