Javier Bardem May Play King Triton In The ‘Little Mermaid’ Remake

Perhaps you keep in mind final week when Terry Crews made this passionate plea: He wished to play King Triton, Ariel’s father, within the in-the-works The Little Mermaid live-action remake so unhealthy he printed a number of Photoshops of him within the function. (One had him rocking a merman tail.) Well, this sucks for him, and for individuals who wished him to play it: According to The Hollywood Reporter, Disney is speaking to another person. The excellent news? That another person is Oscar-winner Javier Bar

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If this works out — and if the movie hews near the 1989 animated authentic — Bardem won’t solely have a tail but additionally an aggressive head of lengthy white hair, an countless mustache, and never solely a gold crown however some gold bracelets. He’ll even be tasked with being so dismissive of his princess daughter’s needs to mate with a human hunk that she’ll give up her fairly voice to tentacled baddie Ursula in alternate for a pair of homo sapien legs.

Bardem would (once more, if all pans out) be part of a forged that’s coming collectively rapidly, particularly contemplating Disney has been making an attempt to redo The Little Mermaid for a couple of years now. (At one level it was to be directed by Sofia Coppola and star Chloë Grace Moretz.) The Bardem information comes a mere day after it was revealed One Direction boy bander (and Dunkirk soldier) Harry Styles was in talks to play the prince that bewitches Ariel. Meanwhile, Halle Bailey (not Halle Berry) has already been named as the brand new Ariel, and Melissa McCarthy might be enjoying Ursula — that’s, until Lizzo swipes it from beneath her. Of course, they nonetheless haven’t forged a Sebastian…

(Via THR)