The Little Mermaid
2023
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Producer: Mary Poppins Returns. John DeLuca was born in Orange, New Jersey, USA. He is known for Mary Poppins Returns (2018), Chicago (2002) and The Little Mermaid (2023).
- Producer, Additional Crew, Actor
- John DeLuca
John DeLuca (born in Orange, New Jersey) is an American film producer. He most frequently works with his partner, director Rob Marshall. They met as Off-Broadway performers. Filmography. Memoirs of a Geisha (2005, co-producer) Tony Bennett: An American Classic (2006, executive) Nine (2009)
- Film producer and choreographer
- Rob Marshall (c. 1983–present)
- Orange, New Jersey, U.S.
Since producer John DeLuca and director Rob Marshall revolutionized musical film in the early years of the new millennium, Disney has entrusted them with some of its most complex productions. With their 2023 underwater musical »The Little Mermaid,« both had to face their biggest challenge to date.
May 15, 2023 · By Joe Deckelmeier. Published May 15, 2023. Director Rob Marshall and producer John DeLuca discuss honoring the original Little Mermaid, working with Alan Menken, and mermaid mythology. Disney continues its streak of adapting hit animated classics into live-action epics with The Little Mermaid. Ariel, the youngest daughter of King Triton, is ...
- Creating An Underwater Musical
- Updating The Classic Film
- Bringing 'Under The Sea' to Life
- 'A Love Letter to The Original film'
Marshall described directing this project as "the challenge of all challenges." "It was sort of daunting to be quite honest," Marshall said on taking on the project. "How do you begin? An underwater musical where people are singing and speaking, weightless, moving through water?" Cinematographer Dion Beebe said complex lighting effects were used to...
While Marshall's goal for the film was to stay true to its message, he and composer Alan Menken, who worked on the 1989 animated feature, said it was also important to "bring the old experience and open it up in fresh and new ways." One of those ways was updating all of the songs, including "Poor Unfortunate Souls," which is sung by McCarthy, and "...
When it came to producing the musical number for one of the film's hits songs, "Under the Sea," which won an Academy Award for best original song in 1989, Marshall said that it was a "massive amount of work." Similar to the animated film, the scene features an array of tropical fish surrounding Bailey, as her crustacean friend Sebastian sings the p...
In addition to Awkwafina, Diggs and Tremblay putting their own spin on Scuttle, Sebastian and Flounder, respectively, the film's star, Bailey, 23, is breaking barriers in her role as Ariel, as the first Black actress to play the iconic character. While news of her casting was initially met with various opinions and commentaryacross the spectrum, th...
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May 21, 2023 · Ahead of the highly-anticipated May 26 premiere, nearly five years in the making, Collider’s Steve Weintraub sat down with Marshall and producer John DeLuca to dive into some of the...
May 26, 2023 · I recently spoke to director/producer Rob Marshall and producer John DeLuca about how they filmed the singing sequences, Javier Bardem's song that was cut from the film, whether or not there is a ...
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