The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning and Samuel E. Wright reprise their roles as Ariel and Sebastian respectively, while Sally Field voices the film's new villain, Marina Del Rey, and Jim Cummings replaces Kenneth Mars as King Triton, as Mars had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and was unable to reprise the role. The film was released by Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment on August 26, 2008. The film contradicts certain events of the television series, implying that it is an independent installment of Disney's "The Little Mermaid" franchise. King Triton and his wife, Queen Athena, rule over the underwater kingdom of Atlantica, filled with music
Sebastian (The Little Mermaid) Sebastian (The Little Mermaid) Sebastian is an animated anthropomorphic crab in "The Little Mermaid" film series from the Caribbean island of Jamaica, and is a servant of King Triton. Apart from his role in the film trilogy, Sebastian features in the animated series, in the "Kingdom Hearts" series of video games, and even has music albums based on him. The character was developed solely for the film, and is not derived from the original Hans Christian Andersen story. Early on in the writing and development of "The Little Mermaid", the character that would later become Sebastian was originally an English-butler