The filmmaker, American theater director and choreographer Rob Marshall is preparing the musical film with actors "The Little Mermaid", starring Halle Bailey and Jonah Hauer-King, based on the animation of the Disney factory of 1989.

The particularity is that, unlike the cartoon character Ariel, Bailey is Afro-descendant, which will give a particular profile to the story, which has always been told differently since the time of Hans Christian Andersen.

Marshall has a growing prestige since in the decade of 1980 staged "Cats" at the Winter Garden Theater, de Broadway, and defended Bailey, fruit of an intense casting, since “Halle possesses the rare combination of spirit, heart, youth, innocence and substance, plus a glorious voice, which are intrinsic and necessary qualities to play this iconic character ", as stated to the European press.

While waiting to restart, composer Alan Menken revealed to "The Rosie O'Donnell Show" that "The Little Mermaid" will have four new songs, plus new versions of "Bajo el mar", "Kiss her" and "Part of him".

Rob Marshall also has an intense background in film for television and an auspicious film debut with "Chicago." (2002), musical with Renée Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Richard Gere as protagonists, winner of six Oscars, three Golden Globes and several other awards.

After that he filmed "Memoirs of a geisha" (2005), with a mostly oriental cast, “Nine” (2009), con Daniel Day-Lewis, Nicole Kidman, Marion Cotillard and Penolope Cruz, "Pirates of the Caribbean: Sailing mysterious waters " (2011), with Johnny Depp and Penelope Cruz, "In the woods" (2014), con Meryl Streep, and "The Return of Mary Poppins" (2018), with Emily Blunt in the role that 54 years before it had been Julie Andrews.