Disney is bringing the underwater world of The Little Mermaid to live-action with the upcoming film, which will star Halle Bailey as Ariel. Jonah Hauer-King co-stars as Prince Eric, and, as he tells Total Film magazine in the latest issue, which features Fast X on the cover, the adaptation will build on what we already know and love about the original movie.
"The objective was trying to honour and respect the film that we loved 30 years ago, and bring everything that we fell in love with in the first place, while also trying to breathe some new life into it," he explains. "I think that was true of Prince Eric. Trying to understand who he is, and trying to bring some four-dimensionality to him, was the challenge."
