This would obviously represent an enormous change from the original film — which focused on a heterosexual romance between a man and a female mermaid — but Tom Hanks seems to think that it’s the type of move that would really sell a modern version of Splash.
According to a new report from People, while attending the Inferno premiere in Los Angeles earlier this week, Tom Hanks addressed the upcoming Splash remake and suggested a way to get himself involved in the project.
By his own estimation, a genuinely bold move for the franchise would be for Hanks to come back as Allen Bauer so a romance can blossom between him and Channing Tatum’s gender-swapped version of Daryl Hannah’s mermaid.