No They Didn't, Say It Isn't So! An Actual Remake Of Splash is coming to cinemas near you!

I just saw this on Collider.com and I can't believe this is actually happening...I think I've just had to pick my jaw up off the floor after hearing this unbelievable piece of film news.

According to Collider.com via an interview with CNBC producer Brian Grazer told correspondent Carl Quintanilla that:

"I'm actually gonna do Splash today, and I can't say . I'm actually going to do it from the point of view- I can't say anything about it. There's a movie star involved or gonna be involved. I haven't announced it."

And in case your reading this and thinking "is this guy talking about doing Splash the TV show"...no you'd be wrong in thinking this, Brian Grazer is in fact talking about remaking the Ron Howard directed "Splash" that starred Tom Hanks and Daryl Hannah as a mermaid who saves Tom Hanks from drowning and she then becomes a human to track him down.

And he went on to say in this same interview that this new take on the Tom Hanks film will be a "version of" his original concept for "Splash" which was called "Wet" (so says Screenrant.com) which was according to Screenrant.com was based on the mermaid's point of view, and when Brian Grazer was asked in this same interview whether he would go back to this original idea for "Splash" he said said that:

" Yes. And that's what...we're going to do a version of that. But I can't tell you the twist".

This isn't the only Tom Hanks film that is getting remade as according to Collider.com the film "Big" is going to be remade into a half an hour comedy adaption that will be loosely based on the original's film but has been described as "looking more at what it means to be a kid and what it means to be an adult and how that in today's world these two things are more confused more than ever", as well as the film "Bachelor Party" being made into a half an hour comedy anthology by ABC this series again is only loosely based on the original film's narrative but will be geared more towards examining relationships and the institution of marriage.

This sounds to me, now I think about it that these two remakes are going to be over analysing what was a fun family film and is going to suck all the fun out of them and have people thinking "what was the point of remaking it if that was what they're going to remake it like".

Apart from this not much else is know about this remake, so we'll just have to wait and see what other news comes out about this remake.