Talk:The Little Mermaid (live-action film)/@comment-25622606-20190705103131/@comment-1672596-20190706105201

Fully agreed with you, Pablo. Changing Ariel's ethnicity is not good at all (heck, changing ANYONE'S established ethnicity is a stupid move, whether it be black to white or white to black or Asian to black or black to Asian or what have you.). And this whole trend of changing up redheads to black people is definitely annoying.

And to Dragon Pulse, it is heavily implied in the franchise that Ariel lived in and around Denmark, so there truly is no reason for her to be black (and considering she lived deep under the sea, where sunlight rarely breaches the surface, especially when she's not supposed to surface in the original film, and based on their changing Scuttle into a diving bird, they're probably going to not have her surface either, her having dark skin actually makes even LESS sense than having light skin). And whether there are too many white leads in films or not is NOT an excuse for this. Would you be upset if Black Lightning for example was changed into a white guy, or Black Panther, even? It's the exact same thing here. And if you ask me, changing a character's skin color to be black just to make her more relatable to blacks in a more cynical manner is closer to being racist than just letting her be what she originally was, have her be portrayed by Ashley Bridget, Lindsay Lohan, or even Madeleine Pestach.

And if the rumors are true, Ariel's not even the only character to get a race lift for no real reason, since there's rumors that Park Jimin's going to portray Prince Eric (yeah, that's right, a K-Pop singer portraying him).

This is just going to be a total disaster. I always thought having Lin-Manuel Miranda helming the remake was a big mistake, and this is only reinforcing why I thought it was a mistake.