Deadline is reporting that Kelly Marcel is all but set to do a script
re-write of Joe Wright's upcoming live-action
adaptation of author Hans Christian Andersen's story "The Little Mermaid".
Abi Morgan ("Shame") previously worked on the script.
Tim Bevan and Eric
Fellner will produce this version of the story,
Marcel won high praise for her script "Saving Mr. Banks" that deals with Walt Disney's 14 year attempt to persuade Australian author P. L. Travers to sell him the film rights to her Mary Poppins stories. She's also adapting E L James erotic book "Fifty Shades of Grey" for the big scree.
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