Splash Remake In The Works

Producer Brian Grazer is working to remake Splash — with a twist.

And if that doesn’t sound like a drink order, I don’t know what to tell you.

Grazer, now one of Hollywood’s biggest producers, started his career with a number of fairly inexpensive, successful films like Splash and Spies Like Us.

Grazer told CNBC (seen above) that the new movie is a version of his original Splash idea, which was titled Wet. That film would have been told more from the mermaid’s point of view. The final film very much centered on Tom Hanks’s human character, who falls in love with the mermaid when she comes to land.

“There’s a movie star involved, or going to be involved,” Grazer said of the remake. “I haven’t announced it.”

The original film was released in 1984 and starred Hanks alongside Daryl Hannah. Hannah played a mermaid who came to land and fell in love with a man whom she had rescued from drowning as a boy. Throughout the film, Hanks’s character does not know that Madison is a mermaid.

There was a TV movie sequel, Splash, Too, released in 1988. It is largely considered to be non-canonical (inasmuch as there is canon to a film like Splash) since the events of the movie directly contradict the premise of the first film’s ending.

Besides Hanks and Hannah, the original film also starred comedy legends John Candy and Eugene Levy. No word on whether Levy, Hannah, Hanks, or other players from the original might be lined up to appear in the follow-up.