Disney+ has handed a pilot order to Aquamarine, based mostly on the 2006 teen fantasy romantic comedy starring Emma Roberts. The venture, for Disney+ and Disney Channel, hails from Roberts, the movie’s director Elizabeth Allen Rosenbaum and producer Susan Cartsonis. The Daring Sort creator Sarah Watson will pen the pilot.
Along with govt producing, Roberts will reprise her position as Claire Brown from the movie as a visitor star.
Within the pilot, when teenaged Coral strikes to a dreamy seaside city, she begins unraveling the reality behind her mom’s disappearance—and discovers her mom was a mermaid, awakening magical powers in Coral simply as secrets and techniques beneath the waves threaten to floor.
The 2006 film, directed by Allen Rosenbaum from a screenplay by John Quaintance and Jessica Bendinger and produced by Cartsonis, is loosely based mostly on Alice Hoffman’s 2001 YA novel. It starred Roberts as Claire, together with Joanna “JoJo” Levesque and Sara Paxton. In it, teenage finest mates, Claire and Hailey (Levesque), uncover a sassy mermaid named Aquamarine washed ashore after a storm. Fleeing an organized marriage, she guarantees to grant them a want if they will show to her that real love exists by successful the center of a neighborhood lifeguard. Since its launch, the movie has reached cult standing.
L-R: Emma Roberts, Jo Jo, Sara Paxton in ‘Aquamarine’ 2006
Courtesy Everett Assortment
Aquamarine was Allen Rosenbaum’s (as Elizabeth Allen) characteristic directorial debut. She went on to direct and/or govt produce episodes of Ginny & Georgia, Discovered, Lifeless To Me, Spinning Out and Fairly Little Liars: The Perfectionists, amongst others. She’s repped by WME and McKuin Frankel Whitehead.
Roberts, recognized extra not too long ago for her work with Ryan Murphy throughout a number of installments of American Horror Story, Scream Queens and American Horror Story, she’ll subsequent be seen within the Mark Williams-directed movie Hal and The Method, from director Brian McGreevy. Roberts is repped by UTA, Sweeney Leisure and legal professional JR McGinnis.
Along with creating The Daring Sort, Watson’s extra credit embrace Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Parenthood and About A Boy, amongst others. She’s repped by Verve and Vary Media Companions.
