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==Production==

==Production==

[[Walt Disney]] had plans to adapt The Little Mermaid as a short for MGM for a biopic on the original story’s author Hans Christian Andersen, but it never came to fruition. In the story, it would have been a lot closer to the Andersen version than the 1989 classic, but Walt himself came up with some changes. Most notable being how the mermaid saves the Prince. Instead of fleeing almost right away, she sings to him, and then leaves right when he starts to regain consciousness, and the Prince is now haunted by her beautiful vocals. Other changes include the desire for an immortal soul, the arranged marriage, and her genuinely not knowing she’d sacrifice her voice to be human. Directors and Screenwriters John Musker and Ron Clements even brought up when making their version that “So it was as if Walt was looking over our shoulders when we were developing this because it seemed like a lot of the things he was thinking we were thinking too.”

[[Walt Disney]] had plans to adapt The Little Mermaid as a short for MGM for a biopic on the original story’s author Hans Christian Andersen, but it never came to fruition. In the story, it would have been a lot closer to the Andersen version than the 1989 classic, but Walt himself came up with some changes. Most notable being how the mermaid saves the Prince. Instead of fleeing almost right away, she sings to him, and then leaves right when he starts to regain consciousness, and the Prince is now haunted by her beautiful vocals. Other changes include the desire for an immortal soul, the arranged marriage, and her genuinely not knowing she’d sacrifice her voice to be human. Directors and Screenwriters John Musker and Ron Clements even brought up when making their version in a featurette comparing the three versions of the story.  “So it was as if Walt was looking over our shoulders when we were developing this because it seemed like a lot of the things he was thinking we were thinking too.”