10 Classic Movies You Had No Idea Were Being Remade

The 1984 comedy classic Splash follows Tom Hanks as successful businessman Allen, who falls in love with mermaid Madison (Daryl Hannah). The remake will be a gender swapped version with Channing Tatum portraying the mermaid. His 22 Jump Street co-star Jillian Bell is also attached to the film, portraying the successful businesswoman.

The original Splash showed the mermaid save Allen as a boy and the pair falling in love after meeting again years later, though he doesn’t know who (or what) she is at first.

The remake is being written by Marja-Lewis Ryan who created The L Word: Generation Q and has written some of its episode. She also wrote and directed the film 6 Balloons.

In January 2019, Bell confirmed during Sundance that the project was “being written currently” so hopefully we’re much closer to the project moving forward.