Aquamarine Is Being Turned Into A Series & Our Girl Emma Roberts Is Coming Back
Mermaid fans, rejoice ‘cos the world’s best teen movie is finally on its way back to us.
Disney+ and Disney have announced they’re issuing a pilot order for a series adaptation of Aquamarine, the iconic 2006 mermaid movie that proved love was real and any top could be made into a cute dress.
Emma Roberts, who starred as Claire Brown in the original movie, signed on as an executive producer and will be reprising her role and guest-starring in the pilot. Welcome back, diva.
The film’s director Elizabeth Allen Rosenbaum will also be returning, agreeing to direct and executive produce alongside original producer Susan Cartsonis. The Bold Type creator Sarah Watson has also signed on to write the pilot.
The pilot will follow a new teen, Coral, as she moves to a seaside town and learns the truth about her mother’s disappearance, discovering her mother is a mermaid and uncovering her own magical powers in the process.
Sounds like the stuff teen classics are made of.
Take me back to the OG movie
In case you need a walk down memory lane, the film that (surely) inspired Zara Larsson’s new fashion era, Aquamarine, is one of the most iconic movies of the early 2000s.
Released in 2006, it sees Claire and Hayley (Joanna Levesque) as two young besties on holiday in Florida before Hayley’s mum up and moves her to Australia. The two are praying for a way to change Hayley’s mum’s mind when they happen upon mermaid Aquamarine (Sara Paxton), who has three days to convince her dad love is real or she’ll be forced to marry a merman she hates. Yikes.
They discover that if they help Aquamarine fall in love, they’ll get a wish and Hayley will stay. So long as a mermaid can understand social cues and keep away from water. A classic teen conundrum if I’ve ever seen one.
For us Aussies, it was also the chance to see our little Gold Coast on the big screen. I don’t know about you, but seeing Supré in the cinema was a wild ride.
It was the movie that inspired thousands of girls to play mermaids and, in the words of Selena Gomez, have “some blue going on”.
Say what you will about corporations, but Disney really ate with this one.
