A sequence adaptation of the 2006 movie “Aquamarine” has acquired a pilot order at Disney+ and Disney Channel, Selection has realized.
Emma Roberts, who starred within the unique movie, will visitor star as Claire Brown within the pilot, with Roberts additionally onboard as an govt producer. The undertaking hails from author Sarah Watson, with the movie’s director, Elizabeth Allen Rosenbaum, connected to direct and govt produce. Susan Cartsonis, who produced the movie, will even govt produce. John Quaintance and Jessica Bendinger wrote the unique movie, which was based mostly on a novel of the identical title by Alice Hoffman. Quintance, Bendinger, and Hoffman usually are not concerned within the pilot.
The logline for the pilot states, “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.”
Together with Roberts, “Aquamarine” starred Joanna “JoJo” Levesque, Sara Paxton, Jake McDorman, and Arielle Kebbel. Within the movie, greatest pals Claire (Roberts) and Hailey (Levesque) attempt to assist mermaid Aquamarine (Paxton) discover real love. The movie was not notably well-received when it was first launched, however has since achieved cult standing.
Since starring in “Aquamarine,” Roberts has gone on to star in movies like “We’re the Millers,” “Palo Alto,” and “The Artwork of Getting By.” In tv, she is thought for her frequent collaborations with Ryan Murphy, which incorporates starring in a number of seasons of “American Horror Story” in addition to the Fox present “Scream Queens.”
Watson beforehand created the favored Freeform sequence “The Daring Sort,” which aired for 5 seasons. She most lately wrote a number of episodes of the Disney+ sequence “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” and created the CBS medical drama “Pure Genius.”
Along with directing “Aquamarine,” Rosenbaum has directed episodes of exhibits like “Gossip Woman,” “The Vampire Diaries,” “All American,” “Empire,” “Ginny & Georgia,” and “Lifeless to Me.”
Watson is repped by Verve and Vary Media Companions. Rosenbaum is repped by WME and McKuin Frankel Whitehead. Roberts is repped by UTA, Sweeney Leisure, Felker Toczek, and Shelter PR.
That is the most recent instance of Disney making an attempt to reboot one in every of their movie properties as a TV sequence. Disney+ has beforehand given pilot orders to diversifications of “Holes” and “Witch Mountain.” Disney has additionally lately commissioned pilots for exhibits like “Coven Academy,” which was picked as much as sequence in 2025, in addition to the upcoming pilot for an adaptation of the “Eerie Elementary” books.
