Jason Baird is known for his work on Kong: Skull Island (2017), Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002) and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017).
The tribute to the original heartbreaking tell of unrequited love and sacrifice from a perspective of the naive little mermaid. She dies in the end by turning into seafoam.
The story remains to be set in Denmark.
