Noma Dumezweni Latest To Join Disney’s Live-Action The Little Mermaid

Actress Noma Dumezweni is the latest to join Disney’s upcoming live-action adaptation of The Little Mermaid. According to Deadline, she will play a character not seen in the 1989 animated original film.

Halle Bailey will portray Ariel in the movie with Javier Bardem set to play King Triton, Jonah Hauer-King as Prince Eric, Jacob Tremblay as Flounder, Awkwafina as Scuttle, Daveed Diggs as Sebastian and Melissa McCarthy, who will play the role of the sea witch Ursula.

Rob Marshall will direct the film from a script by David Magee. Lin-Manuel Miranda and Alan Menken will create a blend of old and new songs that will be featured in the upcoming big screen version.

Disney’s animated The Little Mermaid made over $211 million at the box office and became a bestseller on home video, popularizing songs like “Under The Sea” and “Part of Your World.” Based on Hans Christian Andersen’s Danish fairy tale, it tells the story of a 16-year-old mermaid princess named Ariel who longs to be human.

Dumezweni Is best known for her role as in Broadway’s Harry Potter and the Cursed Child and she recently starred opposite Nicole Kidman and Hugh Grant in HBO’s The Undoing