Previously in this series: The Beauty and the Beast. Original text by Hans Christian Andersen. There are kings who live underneath the sea as well as above it. Kings have daughters there too, in the manner of kings everywhere, and fathers there must find something to do with them as well as we do. There is no place so remote that no man can settle and own it. There was a king once,…

I flipped when I heard Sofia Coppola was chosen from a pool of directors to helm a live-action film of The Little Mermaid . Could there be a more perfect candidate to take on Hans Christian Andersen’s dark tale of teenage lust? After so many lackluster attempts to bring the fractured fairy tale to the box office ( Red Riding Hood , Jack the Giant Slayer , Hansel & Gretel ), we might finally get an adaptation that’s

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