The internet raised its collective hands in praise on Monday as news hit that a new remake of the classic 1984 film Splash would star Channing Tatum—as the mermaid.
What we do know about the Splash remake is that signing Channing Tatum to play the role originally occupied by 80s sex symbol Daryl Hannah (and comedian Jillian Bell in the original Tom Hanks role) continues a well-overdue trend of Hollywood gender role-reversals, following on the heels of the all-female Ghostbusters remake.
The casting isn’t the only aspect of the Splash remake that puts women in lead roles. Here’s how the film is bringing women to the forefront.
THREE DIFFERENT group texts informed me about this incredibly important news and that’s how i know i have the right friends
I'm pretty sure this has already been done. I'm certain I've seen something with a similar plot and a merman.
Nathaniel Myers
How is this important? Are we going to genderswap every fucking thing that's already been made with male roles in mind? Expect this trend to change after it sells like shit.
Zachary Bailey
How do people suffer through this kind of shit? It's like they know it doesn't make any sense, and just makes for !!!BOUNDARIES BEING BROKEN!!! I imagine people bracing for liftoff, except that they're in a movie theater seat waiting for the movie to finally start rolling. When it does, it's like they're trying to break through an atmosphere of SHIT because that's what the movie inevitably is, yet they'll sit through it for their personal gain, thinking they're any more of an open minded person for going to see this
>I-IT'S >SO >gggGGGGOOOOODD
Brody Jenkins
Welcome to Hillary's America.
Alexander Moore
>The movie actually starts pre-production >some screens leak >shitty clickbait sites make "articles" with headlines like "Why Splash will be the new feminist milestone", "Splash will make a splash in the male-oriented Hollywood patriarchy" >People annoyed over the fact that all they see is this shit >some troll on twitter makes a shitty remark >sites explode again with "SEXIST, HOMOPHOBIC MANBABIES DONT WANT MERMAN" >Movie comes out >Females with musty vagina bogs creep out of their hovels to see some of that HUNK meat >Theaters so full of estrogen that male ushers grow tits in it's month long running and following month re.-screening >seats get crusted with vagoojuice and period blood(#freebleedforsplash was one of the hashtags for twatter activists) >Ushers set up plastic coverings with Channing Tatum motifs and collection buckets under the seats >The movie wins every audience choice award ever made >Channing Tatum becomes a loved feminist icon >Rapes a woman >everyone who saw the movies commit collective suicide.
Benjamin Gray
(((Wieselman)))
(((Heltzel)))
Elijah Lewis
What am I supposed to be upset by here?
Ian Thompson
the first one was a chick flick any way
Jason Myers
I can't wait to see this flop like ghostbusters
Nathaniel Sanchez
I don't really mind this one. If it was splash with a female mermaid and a female lead in a daring lesbian relationship that thwarted the patriarchy at every turn, I'd care.
But Channing Tatum is eye-candy and is good natured enough about himself to take deprecating roles, so he can be the mimbo here and it could work. If they try to not push a shitton of social justice shit into it beyond the gender swapped lead roles, it could be pretty good.
...not that I expect that they won't.
Hunter Bailey
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Lincoln Long
Who in the fuck would rather see a merman than a mermaid? Merman has never been popular.
Luke Walker
>Who in the fuck would rather see a merman than a mermaid? Lesbians, cucks, jews and numales
Ian Cox
honestly i don't give a fuck
let woman have their porn disguised as a chick flick
Elijah Edwards
WHO GIVES A SHIT
SPLASH FANS DON'T EXIST
Adam Johnson
Is this Aquaman's solo movie
Jason Lewis
Women.
Elijah Flores
Don't underestimate online media. They will scour the internet for anything resembling anger towards this movie and then they'll blow it out of proportion as a massive sexist backlash
Alexander Morgan
So stop being angry...? It's such a non story.
Aaron Cruz
>that’s how i know i have the right friends
>our opinons are all the same >therefore these are the right people to be in my life
Grayson Richardson
I don't see this making a lot of money. Anyone know the film's budget?
The idea sounds retarded.
Parker Bailey
>dat image >dat forced elation christ what a bunch of faggots
Noah Perez
Why the fuck would anyone want a remake of splash? Is Hollywood really getting that desperate?
Carson Richardson
but Splash was awful
who the fuck is asking for a reboot?
Xavier Fisher
NOT SPLASH IS NOTHING SACRED?
Landon Long
Seems funny. I'd watch that.
Henry Collins
Daryl Hannah could probably use a cameo paycheck
Evan Morgan
not even the original was funny
there's no way the reboot is going to be good
Wyatt Harris
holy shit
Gabriel Reed
You can genderswap one film. Which do you do?
Liam Walker
James Bond
oh, the butthurt
Adam Ward
theirs just something inherently hilarious about a man mermaid, let alone Channing Tatum as a merman
Jackson Anderson
The Shawshank Redemption
Jaxon Gutierrez
And everything progressives find "problematic" about the original will still be in the remake - and worse - but it will all be okay because it is happening to a man and not a woman.
Further proof that the goal of Leftist progressives was never to achieve equality, but rather to reverse inequality.
Whatever. Hopefully, it will lose a hundred million or so like FemBusters and in a few years these studios that have become infected with cultural Marxists will all be bankrupt.
Logan White
>America is already great >(((Heltzel)))
can't make this up
John Walker
I'm fine with this, changing Tatum will be the merman, so it's probably played for laughs instead of "girl powah"
Ethan Ortiz
9 to 5.
Jonathan Howard
Heathers
Josiah Cook
I kek'd
Brandon Anderson
Go away, Sony.
Matthew Morales
LotR
Tyler Martin
this was my first thought as well - it's very zoolander
Kayden Barnes
Beaches
Gabriel Rodriguez
>Splash remake with a $1.5 million dollar budget makes $500+ million compared to 2016 Ghostbusters
Isaiah Myers
There's exactly zero (0) people who give a fuck about Splash, barring Daryl Hannah. Let me guess, it's sony making yet another shitty business decision?
Benjamin Ward
I didn't see you bitching when it was only white males as the lead. How was that not biased? Grow up.
Carter Fisher
>remaking a rom com with some kind of feminist twist What's their goal here, it already would target the exact same women and nu males that drink the feminist movie koolaid wouldn't it?
Kevin Robinson
>gender swapped rehashes Or >end of western civilization Beats me which to choose, senpai
Nathan Lopez
END WHITEWASHING
MORE GENDER REVERSAL
MORE POC IN TRADITIONALLY WHITE ROLES
Jose Rogers
40 Days and 40 Nights
Sebastian Sanders
>not Idris Elba
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Dominic Robinson
>a splash remake with blacks, Mexicans, and asians
kek
I think we'd be looking at a 5 digit worldwide gross
Juan Jones
Billy Elliott
Eli Smith
Didn't disney channel already make this movie...back in 1999?
Sony have already dictated Underworld is getting the gender switch, from Kate Beckinsale to the guy from Divergence as the main lead, I really wish I was joking.
Julian King
Sisterhood of the travelling pants.
Gabriel Butler
Scream >main hero is a guy >his father was a man whore >the killers are the guys gf and female friend >female deputy and the male news reporter
Levi Peterson
ignore is only option
Jackson Watson
Taxi driver
Zachary Carter
This is getting out of hand.
Isaiah Bennett
>Underworld is getting the gender switch
so they're making the girl the clueless idiot werewolf and the guy the smarter undead vampire?
Jacob Long
Junior is the only true answer to this.
Wyatt Fisher
the people that report on the faux outrage are not above stirring the shit kettle just to create artificial controversy though its slowly starting to get through to some of em that not all controversy is good controversy
Deathproof
Angel Peterson
>Groundhog day
>Tom Hanks is the ground hog >The Ground hog plays the role of tom hanks and repeats everyday of ground hog day
Jayden Baker
>Sony have already dictated Underworld is getting the gender switch
Who decided that was a profitable idea? Literally the only reason anyone watched Underworld was to see Beckinsale squeezed into black latex.
Jonathan Johnson
from what I can gather its probably going to be said guy as "evolved" vampire made by Selene and her hybrid daughter
personally I just think its funny what with it being Sony and all
Jayden Evans
They're making movies for women now. Men wanted to see Beckinsale. They're making a movie for women so they're making the lead eyecandy for women. Same as Splash
Brody Cox
>Sony have already dictated Underworld is getting the gender switch
personally im disappointed we never got more of Rhona Mitra in the underworld movies.
William Parker
Amature bait. Very sad!
Angel Gomez
>classic
It's one of the worst of the Prime Time Tom Hanks Kinography. Anyway this gender swap sounds dumb enough that it might be funny. Both main actors are good at light comedy I'll wait for the trailer
Isaiah White
Queen Kong
Christian Brown
Impossible Women can't be lonely
Angel Stewart
>All female American Pie
When?
Evan Robinson
>not wanting them to do this
You saw the crushing lost they already made with Ghostbusters, why wouldn't you want as many of these as possible, all they're doing is proving your point
Angel Wood
what would it even be about?
>wow I've only had 900 dicks in me during highschool If I don't get to 1000 by graduation everyone will think I'm a loser
Elijah Kelly
Drive
Colton Thomas
>Daryl Hannah >sex symbol
Camden Gonzalez
>guys the lat 15 reboots with gender swapped super queer diverse casts failed! >this is why wee need more feminism, profits and producers are sexist! call the UN!
Blake Sanchez
Mannequin is next.
Nicholas Davis
Stop giving Leslie Jones work.
Juan Rivera
She has autism.
Luke Hernandez
The Devil Wears Prada
Andrew Murphy
thank you I just fucking choked on my drink
Hunter Ortiz
Mean Girls.
Samuel Morgan
(((Twitter)))
Logan Perez
Why are you using Hillary's America twice?
Isaac Lewis
kek
Wyatt Harris
Whatever, Im not gonna see them and Im gonna stop posting here too because this place is the new tumblr, posting lefty web journalism.
Henry Morales
what the fuck
Mason Martin
Deliverance
Christopher Lee
That... actually sounds alright. I mean a little wonky given that Mermen aren't really much of a thing, but the situational comedy aspects of it work with reversed genders. I kind of hope the give Eugene Levy a role or cameo, and they keep the scene where Tom Hanks was complaining about how people find love every day and John Candy tells him that's bullshit.
Jacob Wood
what the fuck is Splash?
David Hall
Well done user, well done...
Liam Rivera
Deliverance
Daniel Ortiz
Workaholics did an episode like that
Michael Peterson
Who would be in the climactic strap on rape scene?