The script for Splash, a romantic comedy where a jaded New Yorker falls in love with a mermaid, had been kicking around Hollywood for a while before Disney became interested. Ultimately, it became the first project released by Touchstone Pictures, a brand that Disney created in order to produce movies that fell outside the carefully-cultivated Disney identity. Starring relatively unknown actors Tom Hanks and Darryl Hannah, Splash defied expectations to become a critical and commercial success. It also has a weirdly extensive reach into our wider culture; Disneyland's new log flume was named Splash Mountain in order to promote the film, Ariel was made a redhead in 1989's The Little Mermaid in order to distinguish her from Daryl Hannah, and Splash was arguably the thing that popularized Madison as a girl's name.