If we were the type to use the term ‘girl crush’, we would use it for Sofia Coppola. The film director is the very epitome of cool – she's modelled for Marc Jacobs, dated Spike Jonze, is besties with Chloe Sevigny and is married to the singer from Phoenix. She also has a sparkling wine named after her, which comes in a can and has a straw attached. That might be the coolest part.
Oh, and then there’s her movies: The Virgin Suicides, Lost In Translation,* Marie Antoinette* and most rencently The Bling Ring. All such amazingly sick flicks.
Now Coppola’s in talks to direct a live-action version of Disney’s The Little Mermaid, according to the Hollywood Reporter. But please manage your expectations of an ethereal, Vaseline-smeared lens affair starring some indie ingenue, as the report says the project ‘differs dramatically' from her previous work, which it notes has been ‘aimed at a highbrow adult audience’.
Instead, Coppola’s first stab at a mainstream movie will be ‘kid-friendly and appeal to a four-quadrant audience’.
We will absolutely still go and see it, obviously.
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This article originally appeared on The Debrief.