Sorry, everybody: Harry Styles is not playing Prince Eric in The Little Mermaid

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Judging by the trending topics thing on Twitter, the entire Internet melted today when rumors began to spread that former One Direction member Harry Styles would be starring alongside Halle Bailey in Disney’s live-action remake of The Little Mermaid. It was all very exciting, if only because it would mean seeing Harry Styles in one of those open sailor shirts that Prince Eric wore in the original, but unfortunately it wasn’t meant to be. As determined by The Wrap, the rumors originally came from the Twitter accounts of AMC Theaters and Regal Cinemas, both of which posted this morning that Styles had been cast as Prince Eric.