The first trailer for the live-action The Little Mermaid movie is here, and it looks breathtaking...though maybe not exactly what you'd expect: The film's based on Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale rather than the Disney movie (no Eric! no Ariel!).

Instead, the new take follows a young girl (Loreto Peralta) who discovers a beautiful, enchanting woman who she believes is the real "Little Mermaid." Yes, it's different than Disney, but it still looks pretty magical:

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The girl's older brother Cam (William Moseley) is a reporter, and travels with his sister to a small town in Mississippi to find the maybe-mermaid in question, who is played by Downton Abbey's Poppy Drayton.

The Little Mermaid will be released later this year, and while there's no Flounder or Sebastian, it does have Shirley MacLaine, so that's something. (She features prominently in the trailer as a mysterious woman with intimate knowledge of the Little Mermaid's story.)

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