Disney is diving right into a sequence adaptation of the 2006 mermaid film Aquamarine.
Disney+ and the Disney Channel have ordered a pilot for the challenge. Emma Roberts, one of many stars of the film, is an govt producer and can visitor star within the pilot, reprising her function as Claire. The film’s director, Elizabeth Allen Rosenbaum, is about to helm the pilot from author Sarah Watson (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, The Daring Kind). Additionally they exec produce, together with Susan Cartsonis, the movie’s producer.
The pilot will heart on a young person named Coral, who has lately moved to a seaside down. “She begins unraveling the truth behind her mother’s disappearance — and discovers her mother was a mermaid, awakening magical powers in Coral just as secrets beneath the waves threaten to surface,” the present’s logline reads.
Aquamarine was launched in March 2006 by twentieth Century Fox (which is now a part of Disney). Sara Paxton performed the title character, a mermaid who enlists the assistance of two teenage ladies (Roberts and Joanna “JoJo” Levesque) to assist show to her father that real love exists and thus keep away from an organized marriage. The film earned reasonably optimistic critiques however was not an enormous field workplace hit, however through the years it turn out to be one thing of a cult favourite.
John Quaintance and Jessica Bendinger wrote the screenplay for the movie, which was based mostly on a younger grownup novel by Alice Hoffman.
