The director said one key part of the film was a big hangup for film studios Virginia Chamlee is a Politics Writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE for three years. Her work has previously ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ron Howard revealed that film studios wanted him to cut one iconic character from his 1984 movie Splash. While he was trying to ...

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If "Splash" was a movie for grownups and "The Little Mermaid" was a film for kids, it's safe to say that the latest flick to feature a mermaid is aimed directly at those who are neither adults nor ...

Ron Howard says when he initially tried to sell Splash — his 1984 film about a man who falls in love with a mermaid who saved him from drowning — many film studios had one key issue: the mermaid.

"We were going to every studio, they were all turning us down, and one said, 'Does it really have to be a mermaid?' " he told the outlet Ron Howard says when he initially tried to sell Splash — his ...