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How the Story in the Live Action Remake of ‘The Little Mermaid’ Will Differ from the Animated Classic · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. The summer movie season
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Speaker 1: will arrive with a splash, quite literally, when The Little
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Speaker 1: Mermaid hits theaters for Memorial Day weekend. And making a
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Speaker 1: live action version of one of the most popular animated
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Speaker 1: films was an easy decision for Disney, but in the
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Speaker 1: thirty four years since the original debut, some of the
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Speaker 1: story elements have become a bit outdated, so they decided
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Speaker 1: to make a few meaningful tweaks. Hollie Bailey, who's playing
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Speaker 1: Princess Ario, tells addition, I'm really excited for my version
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Speaker 1: of the film because we definitely changed the perspective of
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Speaker 1: her wanting to leave the ocean only for a boy.
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Speaker 1: It was bigger than that, was about herself, her purpose,
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Speaker 1: her freedom, her life, and what sheet wants as women
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Speaker 1: were amazing. We're independent, we're modern, we're everything and above,
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Speaker 1: and I'm glad that Disney's updating some of those themes.
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Speaker 1: The Little Mermaid is out everywhere May twenty six. That's
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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood.