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 ...

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 ...

The director said one key part of the film was a big hangup for film studios Ron Howard says when he initially tried to sell Splash — his 1984 film about a man who falls in love with a mermaid who ...