The Little Mermaid' Prequel Author J. Elle on Expanding Ariel's Story
San Diego Comic-Con is taking place this weekend, and along with film and television updates, the event is also offering panels for all the book lovers out there. On Day 1, July 20, Collider's Perri Nemiroff moderated the Books-to-Film Tie-in: An Insider Perspective panel, which featured authors Rektok Ross, Melissa de la Cruz, and J. Elle.
During the panel, Elle spoke about some of the most exciting and challenging parts about taking on Ariel's story, especially with Against the Tide expanding upon what audiences already know about the character. The book follows Ariel as she traverses the seven seas with her sisters to find one who was abducted. Moreover, Against the Tide creates a sort of origin story for Ariel, exploring how the princess first became the human object collector she is now.
While Elle was excited to write Against the Tide, she shared that it was also a lot of pressure in a couple different aspects. First, Elle said there was pressure because "at the end of the day, the cool thing about art in movies and in books is that we, as the consumer of that art, we sort of own that art. How we interpret it and what it means to us is very personal.
"[A]s writers, as fantasy writers, we like to make up our own stories from our imagination. And so one of the things that I got to create is where these sisters reside, because in 'Against the Tide,' they don't all live in Atlantica at the palace. They all have their own territories. I got to create several different oceans that have their own sort of geography...I got to make up the wildest things about these different places the sisters were from and make them all unique.
The Little Mermaid hits digital platforms on Tuesday, July 25. Check out Elle's full comments below:
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