Film News: Woah..Wait...What? Sofia Coppola, The Little Mermaid, how did I not know about this!?

Well it's not official, in fact its so not official it doesn't have any information on the IMDB page as of yet, but apparently Sofia Coppola is going to be directing a true to the original fairy tale version of The Little Mermaid!

Photo by Annie Leibovitz for Disney Parks.
This totally hasn't been my phone and laptop paper for the past few years....honest.

I love Coppola as a director and cannot wait to see what she does with it. Fairy tale films, especially darker, more sinister versions which really get to the heart of the original cautionary tales, are my absolute passion.

I literally grew up on these kinds of films. I was born in 1988, the year before Disney's The Little Mermaid (1989) was released. This was back in the days when Disney wouldn't release anything on home video for fear of upsetting its theatrical re-release profits every seven years or so. By the time I was toddling about my dad found a version of The Little Mermaid in the bargain bin section of our local Blockbuster video rental store, (yeah kids I'm old!) for a bargain price and I was introduced to this beauty.