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<\/p>\nHarry Styles has turned down the chance to star as Prince Eric in Disney’s live-action version of The Little Mermaid.<\/p>\n
The former One Direction star, who made his acting debut in 2017, was linked to the role last month – after US singer\u00a0Halle Bailey was cast as Ariel.<\/p>\n
However, a source has since told E! News: “While [Harry] is a fan of the project he has respectfully declined the offer.”<\/p>\n
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Melissa McCarthy is reportedly in talks to star as Ursula in the live-action remake, which is being directed by Rob Marshall.<\/p>\n
Sources have told Variety that the actress is in early talks to play the sea witch, but she hasn\u2019t signed on the dotted line just yet.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s believed the film will incorporate the original songs from the 1989 animation, as well as new songs from Alan Menken and Lin-Manuel Miranda.<\/p>\n Of course, this isn\u2019t the first time Disney has adapted classic animated flicks into live-action features, as they\u2019ve already recreated The Jungle Book, Dumbo, 101 Dalmatians, Maleficent, Beauty and the Beast, Cinderella, and most recently Aladdin.<\/p>\n The highly anticipated remake of The Lion King opened last month, and Disney are currently working on live-action versions of Mulan, Pinocchio, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Lilo & Stitch, and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" He would have been PERFECT for the role<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":109082,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[108,4154],"tags":[2422,405,112547],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/goss.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/wenn31930829-1-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goss.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182208"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goss.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goss.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goss.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goss.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goss.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goss.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goss.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goss.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goss.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/goss.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Screen-Shot-2019-06-29-at-10.54.22-1024x820.png\")