Los Angeles: Disney is moving forward with a remake of the
1984 film Splash with an interesting twist: Channing Tatum
will star as the mermaid character that was played by Daryl Hannah, while
Jillian Bell will play the character originally portrayed by Tom Hanks.
Imagine Entertainment’s Ron Howard
and Brian Grazer will produce along with Tatum, Reid Carolin and Peter Kieran
via their Free Association banner. Anna Culp will be the executive producer.
The 1984 original movie starred Hanks
as a man who as a young boy was saved from drowning by a mermaid (Hannah). The
mermaid returns 20 years later and finds the boy she once saved, and gives him
the option between his life on land or a life under the sea with her.
Marja-Lewis Ryan will write the
script. She is currently writing Free Association's HBO College pilot Unsupervised.
Free Association also is producing her Netflix film 6 Balloons, which
she has written and will direct. Ryan also wrote Lean In, the
film based on Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg's 2013 book, for TriStar. She is
repped by UTA.
Tatum and Bell previously worked together
on 22 Jump Street. Tatum, recently seen in Hail,
Caesar!, next will be seen in Kingsman: The Golden Circle. He
is repped by UTA, Management 360 and Hansen, Jacobson.
Bell will soon be seen in Office
Christmas Party and Fist Fight.
The new version of Splash,
which will reverse the sexes of the two leads is definitely put down gender
stereotypes and be worth watching when it gets released.
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