Posted on 08/03/2016 11:06:16 AM PDT by drewh
Channing Tatum is set to play a male mermaid in a gender-flipped remake of the hit 1980s romantic comedy Splash. According to Deadline, The Magic Mike XXL star has been tapped for the role that actress Daryl Hannah made famous in the 1984 film.
The Splash remake co-stars comedian Jillian Bell, who is set to take over the part played by Tom Hanks in the original film.
Bell will also produce the Splash remake. The actress took to Twitter Monday to share the news:
In the original film, Tom Hanks plays a man who reunites with a mermaid (Daryl Hannah) who had saved him from drowning when he was a young boy. The film became a modest hit for Touchstone Pictures and the screenplay snagged an Academy Award nomination.
The remake, however, will see the gender roles reversed.
Deadline reports that Walt Disney Studios Motion Picture is producing the reimagined flick while Ron Howard, who directed the original, is also set to produce.
Tatum also holds a producer credit on the remake. The gender-swapped take on Splash was reportedly Bell’s idea. She and Tatum worked together on the 2014 hit sequel 22 Jump Street.
The updated Splash follows on the heels of another 80s film recently re-fashioned with a gender-flipped twist, after the female-led Ghostbusters reboot launched earlier this summer.
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Male mermaids?! What is that?!
~ Hollywood is offically out of ideas! ~
True. But they will never be officially out of tranny propaganda...
Bharfffff ...
No doubt. If you want something check out this original series on Netflix - “Stranger Things”. It’s just awesome. Sort of like a good 80’s Stephen King horror/Science fiction series. It’s has got me really hooked and it gets better with each episode, ratcheting up the intensity. Check it out.
Would he be a Merman?
I asked my mechanic, “ Do you do trannys? He replied, “ I do trannys all the time.”
I said to him , “That is SO disgusting!” It took him three seconds, and then he laughed like a sonofagun! :^)
I’ve seen about a dozen films made by Hollywood in the last 20 years.This one,like 99.9999% of the ones released during that time,will be placed on my “couldn’t care less” list.
Would he be a Merman?Regular or Ethel?
Rimshot.
they’ll be lined up around the block to see this
Why?
Will they have Melissa McCarthy play John Candy's role?
Will her first lines be "I got published! They printed my letter in Penthouse Letters I was a teenage twink?"
Just don’t ask to see their merKIN!
“Male Mermaids?! No. They’re Merqueers.”
Maybe they can do a remake of Deliverance: “Last time I saw a purty mouth like that, it had a...a hook in it.”
GB II. a real stinker.
I lasted about five minutes, it was so bad.
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