The original 'Little Mermaid' director criticizes live action adaptation: 'Live animals in a zoo have more expression.'
"They didn’t play up the father-daughter story, and that was the heart of the movie," says director John Musker.with over seven years of experience in the entertainment industry. An award-winning journalist, she's written for Turner Classic Movies,, and more. She's worked at EW for six years covering film, TV, theater, music, and books.
" Musker complained."That’s one of the basic things about Disney, is the appeal. That’s what animation does best." He chalked the issues up to the studio's fear of taking risks. "Companies are always like, ‘How do we reduce our risk?'" he mused. "'They like this, right? We’ll just do it again and sell it to them in a different form.’ Or they think, ‘Well, we could make it better.'"Jonah Hauer-King and Halle Bailey in 'The Little Mermaid'.
He also urged Disney to return to a story first model in their films, saying, "I think they need to do a course correction a bit in terms of putting the message secondary, behind entertainment and compelling story and engaging characters.
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