Walt Disney continues the project of live-action adaptations of animated classics with "The Little Mermaid" Halle Bailey takes on the lead role and Rob Marshall directs the underwater adventure. "Alice in Wonderland" (2010), "The Jungle Book" (2016), "Beauty and the Beast" (2017) "The Lion King" ( 2019), "Aladdin" (2019), all of which were able to gross almost a billion US dollars or more at the worldwide box office before the pandemic.