The Moon And The Sun

2nd September 2013

What kids didn’t love Disney’s My Little Mermaid? Much of the story was changed to make it friendly for children – the original fairy tale is pretty grim. There have been several mermaid films over the years from adorable romantic comedies to neo-thrillers and horrors, but the latest effort comes slightly out of left field. Pierce Brosnan, of James Bond fame, is taking on the role of Louis XIV in a film based on (and with its name taken from) the fantasy novel The Moon and The Sun by Vonda McIntyre.

The film will feature the French king and his quest for immortality. Approaching his fiftieth birthday he begins to fear that his only male heir is unfit to rule the country and sends a member of the navy out to find and capture a mermaid with the hope of acquiring her life force in order to live forever. The mermaid will be largely CGI, and is unlikely to be the kind of vicious mermaid seen in horror films – those terrifying monsters that make playing on MermaidMillions.net a much safer bet if you’re trying to get your mermillian fix – as she is played by the beautiful Chinese rising star Fan Bingbing. The king’s illegitimate daughter, as yet uncast, doesn’t know that the king is her father and falls in love with the mermaid’s handler, scheming to set them both free; she only finds out the truth about her parentage when she is arranged to be married to a merchant as a way of paying off the treasury’s debts.

Obviously this is a fantasy film, but is there any truth in it? Well, only in that it’s true that Louis XIV had many illegitimate children by mistresses, and commonly married them off to members of the royal forces. Unfortunately that’s pretty much where it ends, as the Sun King – as he was known – ruled for over seventy two years until his death in 1715, the longest any monarch has ever ruled, and his heir was his five year old grandson. As far as we know, he had no interactions with mermaids.

One of the genuinely exciting elements of The Moon and The Sun lies in the actress to play the mermaid, Fan Bingbing. She has been an important part of Chinese cinema for some time now and appeared in the Chinese release of Iron Man 3, most recently making the transition to American cinema by signing on to play Blink in X-Men: Days of Future Past. An exceptional beauty, she should show audiences a gorgeous and mysterious mermaid.

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