Under-The-Sea Facts About The Little Mermaid
Based on the Danish fairy tale, The Little Mermaid tells the story of a beautiful mermaid princess who dreams of becoming a human. Its success helped kick off Disney’s renaissance period, an era that saw the release of classic films such as Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, and The Lion King.
Here are a few facts you might not have known about the little fish girl who could.
The Little Mermaid Facts
25. Goodbye Mr. Andersen
The Little Mermaid was originally planned as a part of Disney’s proposed biopic on Hans Christian Andersen and was envisioned as a combination of live-action and animated segments of his fairy tales. This film never happened, and Disney didn’t return to the idea of doing an animated The Little Mermaid for decades.
24. Better Late than Never
Some of the character sketches done by illustrator Kay Neilsen during the original attempt to animate The Little Mermaid were dug up decades later and used as inspiration for the 1989 film and Neilsen even got a credit over fifty years later.
23. Charmed
In designing Ariel, animators were inspired by the body of Alyssa Milano. We all were. We all were.
