Actually, the "Little Mermaid" story most of us know and love is a rewrite of a much older, much bloodier fairy tale. In 1837, per ScreenRant, Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen penned the ...

Disney’s new Black mermaid has been called ‘inauthentic’ – but fairy tales have always been repurposed across cultures. And Hans Christian Andersen’s Little Mermaid was different from ...

Taking off from Anderson’s story, The Flight of the Mermaid retold by Sirish Rao and Gita Wolf and illustrated by Bhajju Shyam, is a combination of story and tribal art. The narration is snappy ...

HANS Christian Anderson's fairy tale of The Little Mermaid is adapted for the stage at mac from this weekend. Children's writer Mike Kenny has adapted the story which is brought to the stage by ...

Thanks to the success of 2018’s “Black Panther,” Disney is developing a live-action fairy tale film titled “Sadé,” centered on an African princess, with “Dope” director Rick ...

Andersen’s fairy tale is not a love story, however, because the Prince never romantically desires the mermaid. He is impressed by her devotion but treats the mermaid like an animal or a child.