Actor Emma Roberts is set to feature in a special appearance in the series adaptation of ‘Aquamarine’.ย The film was directed by Elizabeth Allen Rosenbaum and released in 2006. It featured the actor in the role of Claire Brown, a shy and timid teenage girl who, alongside her best friend Hailey ( Joanna Levesque), discovers a stranded mermaid named Aquamarine in their local beach club.
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Roberts will also serve as an executive producer on the project.
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According to the entertainment news outlet Variety, Disney+ and Disney Channel have ordered a pilot for an “Aquamarine” series. Rosenbaum is returning to direct the pilot.
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โWhen teenage Coral moves to a dreamy seaside town, she begins unravelling the truth be hind her motherโs disappearanceโ and discovers her mother was a mermaid, awakening magical powers in Coral just as secrets beneath the waves threaten to surface,” read the logline for the pilot.
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‘Aquamarine’ was based on Alice Hoffman’s novel with the same title. Released in 2001, it emerged among the best-selling novels.ย The film also starred Jake McDorman, Arielle Kebbel and Shaun Micallef, among others. The film had a moderate box office as it earned over USD 23 million against a USD 12 million budget at the global box office. It later went on to emerge as a cult classic.
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Roberts will next feature in the horror film ‘A Body in the Woods’. She essays the role of Alice Lincoln in the film.ย
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