{"id":15071,"date":"2016-03-29T05:00:32","date_gmt":"2016-03-29T09:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=15071"},"modified":"2016-03-29T05:11:31","modified_gmt":"2016-03-29T09:11:31","slug":"15-surprising-facts-about-splash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=15071","title":{"rendered":"15 Surprising Facts About “Splash”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/p>\n

Roger Cormier\u00a0<\/b>and Mental Floss<\/a><\/strong> present 15 Surprising Facts About Splash<\/em><\/a><\/strong>.<\/b>\u00a0Here are three of my favorites…<\/p>\n

\n

2. RON HOWARD TURNED DOWN BIG DIRECTORIAL ASSIGNMENTS TO DO IT.<\/span><\/strong>
\nRon Howard said no to directing Mr. Mom<\/em> (1983) and Footloose<\/em> (1984) to stay attached to\u00a0Splash<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\n

4. JOHN TRAVOLTA, CHEVY CHASE, BILL MURRAY, AND DUDLEY MOORE TURNED DOWN PLAYING ALLEN.<\/span><\/strong>
\nIt was Louisa Velis, Howard’s longtime assistant, who suggested that Howard let Hanks audition. Steve Guttenberg also auditioned. He found out he didn’t get the part at the same time he heard he was getting screen tested for Police Academy<\/em> (1984).\u00a0Michael Keaton remembered being offered the role of Allen’s brother, Freddie\u2014a part that eventually went to John Candy .<\/p>\n

\n<\/blockquote>\n

\n


\n5. DIANE LANE TURNED DOWN PLAYING MADISON.<\/span><\/strong>
\nShe said no to appear in Streets of Fire<\/em> (1984) and The Cotton Club<\/em> (1984).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Roger Cormier\u00a0and Mental Floss present 15 Surprising Facts About Splash.\u00a0Here are three of my favorites… 2. RON HOWARD TURNED DOWN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,54,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-movies","category-trivia","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15071"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15129,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15071\/revisions\/15129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}