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'Gilligan's Island' headed to the bigscreen
Variety ^ | Mar. 2, 2010 | DAVE MCNARY

Posted on 03/03/2010 1:50:47 AM PST by tlb

The seven castaways of "Gilligan's Island" have found a home at Warner Bros. and Atlas Entertainment.

The studio and production company have begun development on a feature film based on the iconic CBS sitcom, which generated solid ratings during its three seasons between 1964 and 1967 and then found something close to eternal life in syndication.

Charles Roven and Richard Suckle are onboard to produce for Atlas, with Brad Copeland penning the screenplay. Original show producer Sherwood Schwartz is aboard to exec produce along with son Lloyd Schwartz.

Plans are for a contempo take on the well-known premise and characters, with the studio and the Schwartzes' blessing Copeland's initial idea for the screenplay. Roven told Daily Variety that he's hoping to start production as early as next year but won't move forward on seeking a director or cast until Copeland's script is completed.

"The characters are so good," Roven added. "We think it's going to be a great story to transport these cultural icons to the modern day."

No casting's been set although Sherwood Schwartz said in an interview last year that he was interested in Michael Cera playing the lead role.

Roven's credits include "The Dark Knight," "Batman Begins," "The Bank Job," "The International," both "Scooby-Doo" pics and the upcoming "Season of the Witch."

(Excerpt) Read more at variety.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Extended News
KEYWORDS: atlasentertainment; gilligan; gilligansisland; minnow; remake; sherwoodschwartz; warnerbros
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To: tlb
I always thought Ted Kennedy would have made the ideal Skipper in any remake, although now they'd have to make it into some sort of Weekend at Bernies thing...


41 posted on 03/03/2010 4:56:46 AM PST by reagan_fanatic (Our politicians are stupid and our policies unsustainable)
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To: rbg81
Or maybe they’ll make it darker. Let’s see.....Thurston Howell III starts cannibalizing his fellow cataways....starting with MaryAnne.

Or Thurston Howell III is the CEO of the evil corporation that goes belly up and decimates the Skipper's and Gilligan's pension, motivating the professor and MaryAnne to set up a fatal "accident".

42 posted on 03/03/2010 4:58:55 AM PST by Ezekiel (The Obama-nation began with the Inauguration of Desolation.)
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To: GreenHornet

Let’s see....

They are lost on an island and discover that some international company is going to doing something evil with the prestine wilderness. Something like clubbing the orangatangs, to make coats for Republicans.
You need a guest character of course. A person from the future appears on the island and warns the castaways that the lack of orangatangs in the future means the Earth is doomed (played by Sean Penn).
The castaways make weapons out of coconuts and bamboo and along with the noble and sentient orangatangs defeat the colonialist imperialists.
As night falls, in the glow of the burning capatalist huts, the castaways decide to stay on the island, join PETA, and live in peace with the monkeys, forever.


43 posted on 03/03/2010 4:59:17 AM PST by RadiationRomeo (Step into my mind and glimpse the madness that is me)
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To: Mad Dawgg

I’ll take Mary Ann for a three hour tour, a three hour tour.


44 posted on 03/03/2010 5:03:27 AM PST by Made In The USA (Home Depot should begin stocking up on pitchforks and torches.)
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To: tlb
This is the guy Sherwood Schwartz wants to play Gilligan:

Michael Cera

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BTW, Mary Ann.

45 posted on 03/03/2010 5:12:31 AM PST by savedbygrace (You are only leading if people follow. Otherwise, you just wandered off.)
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To: tlb

With cameo appearances from the cast of “Lost”.


46 posted on 03/03/2010 5:17:30 AM PST by PapaBear3625 (Public healthcare looks like it will work as well as public housing did.)
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To: RadiationRomeo

I’d rather Ron Zombie would write the script and direct.

Ginger, Mary Ann and Gilligan are college kids from California on spring break. The millionaire is an old fogey with a young trophy wife. The professor is a lusty middle aged guy that is with the kids. And the Skipper is trying to change his ways after escaping from the Honolulu state mental hospital. But after the shipwreck he returns to his old ways of murder and torture.
Tormented by his past and seduced by his horrific fantasies he stalks the islanders one by one. The millionaire has to go first so the bulk of the islanders are hotties.
The professor helps the kids to construct weapons and traps in an attempt to capture the skipper, but this only makes him more murderous. The trophy wife dies in one of those traps after they mistakingly think they have caught the skipper.
Lots of night time running through the palm trees using a steady cam.
The professor is next, some really gruesome disembowelment, which leaves Gilligan and the two scantily clad girls on their own. More night time chases. Ginger is the next victom. Some gratuitous nudity as the skipper feasts hungrily on her flesh.
Gilligan and Mary Ann are chased to the top of the island’s volcano and after a fierce battle the skipper falls into the lava far below.
The two, now lovers, run to the shore to greet a rescue ship. When they get to the beach the rescuers have already landed. The last scene shows that the ‘rescuers’ are actually people who had escaped the mental hospital with the skipper. The one holding Gilligan says “You kills our friend!” and lops off his head. Fini.


47 posted on 03/03/2010 5:29:34 AM PST by RadiationRomeo (Step into my mind and glimpse the madness that is me)
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To: tlb
No casting's been set

My votes for "Mary Anne":

Or

Or even


48 posted on 03/03/2010 5:54:33 AM PST by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: Rastus
Yep - she's a pretty fine idea....


49 posted on 03/03/2010 6:02:51 AM PST by newfreep (Palin/DeMint 2012 - Bolton: Secy of State)
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To: tlb
'Gilligan's Island' headed to the bigscreen

Why?

50 posted on 03/03/2010 6:03:49 AM PST by Non-Sequitur
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To: Ezekiel
“Or maybe they’ll make it darker”

Global warming is slowly submerging the island; they have to figure out a way to get away.

51 posted on 03/03/2010 6:07:42 AM PST by HereInTheHeartland (The End of an Error - 01/20/2013)
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To: Non-Sequitur
Exactly. DISASTER!!!
52 posted on 03/03/2010 6:17:32 AM PST by Lockbar (March toward the sound of the guns.)
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To: ChrisInAR

Thank You. I told people about Bob Story twenty years ago and they thought I was crazy.


53 posted on 03/03/2010 6:23:15 AM PST by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: tlb

“Contemporary Take”: characters will be sleeping with each other.


54 posted on 03/03/2010 6:27:20 AM PST by Arthur McGowan (In Edward Kennedy's America, federal funding of brothels is a right, not a privilege.)
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To: 03A3
"Is this a Billy Joel song?"

LOL!

55 posted on 03/03/2010 6:27:21 AM PST by RabidBartender (Rob Scaaf for Missouri State Senate http://schaafforsenate.com/)
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To: RadiationRomeo

Too funny. Thanks for posting. I’d watch that. :-)


56 posted on 03/03/2010 6:51:35 AM PST by zeugma (Proofread a page a day: http://www.pgdp.net/)
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To: tlb

I hated Gilligan’s Island as a kid. The castaways could make very elaborate gadets, but could not build another boat! Just added another movie to my not see list.


57 posted on 03/03/2010 7:01:01 AM PST by LottieDah (If only those who speak so eloquently on the rights of animals would do so on behalf the unborn)
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To: Mad Dawgg

better question was always ‘Mary Ann or Genie’ ???


58 posted on 03/03/2010 7:10:49 AM PST by Gilbo_3 (Gov is not reason; not eloquent; its force.Like fire,a dangerous servant & master. George Washington)
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To: massgopguy

Huh???? Who’s Bob Story?


59 posted on 03/03/2010 7:21:59 AM PST by ChrisInAR (You gotta let it out, Captain!)
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To: LukeL

Very true but I did kind of like the Starsky & Hutch movie.


60 posted on 03/03/2010 8:47:44 AM PST by wally_bert (It's sheer elegance in its simplicity! - The Middleman)
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