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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: paulycy

Indeed x2.


61 posted on 03/03/2010 8:48:40 AM PST by wally_bert (It's sheer elegance in its simplicity! - The Middleman)
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To: tlb

If John Kerry would run for Thurston Howell, I could see myself voting for him.


62 posted on 03/03/2010 8:51:44 AM PST by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: ChrisInAR

Little Roger & the Goosebumps Ping


63 posted on 03/03/2010 11:48:32 AM PST by Flash Bazbeaux
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To: Flash Bazbeaux

bttt


64 posted on 03/03/2010 11:49:08 AM PST by ConservativeMan55
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To: tlb
Has been done
65 posted on 03/03/2010 1:04:55 PM PST by Tribune7 (Only stupid, racists people support Obama.)
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To: FreeManWhoCan

Don’t forget to give props to Carol Brady’s first husband, The Professor


66 posted on 03/03/2010 1:56:08 PM PST by newbie 10-21-00
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To: LukeL
Almost no tv show makes a good movie.

To me, it's because of the different nature of the two media.

TV shows rely, more or less, on a viewer's awareness of past episodes. It's the build-up and continuity of the ongoing story that makes it work, or not. That medium and story-telling usually doesn't translate well to a movie. Instead, the movie feels like a stretched-out TV episode, or maybe two.

It isn't a complete, self-contained story like a good movies is.

There are exceptions, of course, but that's what most TV-to-movie shows feel like to me.

67 posted on 03/03/2010 2:18:54 PM PST by TChris ("Hello", the politician lied.)
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To: Gilbo_3
better question was always ‘Mary Ann or Genie’ ???

Mary Ann will eventually age (although that hasn't hurt Dawn Wells).

-PJ

68 posted on 03/03/2010 2:28:18 PM PST by Political Junkie Too ("Comprehensive" reform bills only end up as incomprehensible messes.)
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To: Caipirabob

First of all...What the bloody blue blazes are they thinking?????

Secondly...Morena Baccarin as Mary Ann? What the hell are YOU thinking? She’s “ The Movie Star”!


69 posted on 03/03/2010 2:35:16 PM PST by hoagy62 (.)
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To: tlb
Ginger vs Mary Ann fight commercial for the new movie

(*smile*)

70 posted on 03/03/2010 2:48:03 PM PST by Screaming_Gerbil (I think we met before in a past life, and I was a witch back then, too!)
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To: iowamark

Your casting instincts are pretty good, with the exception of Soros or Spitzer as Thurston Howell, III, the millionare. They’re not nearly as “Locust Valley Lockjaw” pretentious-sounding as they’d need to be. Soros sounds flat out foreign, Spitzer sounds like a moderately educated thug.

How about “Ahoy Polloi” John Kerry, with “Terayza” playing Lovey. Husband and wife in life and on screen. It’d be a hoot. She’d need a boatload of gin-soaked raisins to stay sweet enough for the duration of filming, though.


71 posted on 03/03/2010 3:03:47 PM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: RadiationRomeo

I’ve seen that movie, recently. LOL

Rod Zombie is just a touch, a teeny tiny touch, predictable.

:-)


72 posted on 03/03/2010 3:12:08 PM PST by RikaStrom (Pray for Obama - Psalm 109:8 "Let his days be few; and let another take his place of leadership.")
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To: Impy; tlb
As a rule of thumb, movie adaptations of TV shows tend to be bad, but that's not always the case.

I consider The Addams Family (1991) and it's sequel (1993), The Fugitive, Get Smart (2008), Maverick, Beavis and Butt-Head Do America, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie, The Naked Gun (based on the TV series Police Squad!), South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, Star Trek (2009), Transformers (2007), and The Twilight Zone: The Movie to all be good, solidly entertaining films.

I would rank the The Brady Bunch Movie, Popeye (1980), Dragnet (1987), The Flintstones (1995) and its sequel, George of the Jungle, and The Simpsons Movie as guilty pleasures. In the many cases it was because the big-screen actor captured the TV series character spot-on, even if the script sucked.

And Bewitched was such a great TV show, it was a crime the way the movie version gave us a lifeless, faux Bewitched.

I'm suprised they haven't made a live-action Jetsons movie to go along with the live-action Flintstones yet. Gilligan's Island is probably going to make a pretty campy, intentionally stupid film, but if it's done the right way it could at least be entertaining like it's closely related cousin The Brady Bunch. As a favorite cult TV series that everyone knows, at least it makes more sense to adapt it to the big screen than the "what were thinking?" efforts to put stuff Lost In Space and Sgt. Bilko on the big screen.

73 posted on 03/03/2010 5:24:52 PM PST by BillyBoy (Impeach Obama? Yes We Can!)
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To: tlb

and this thread has what to do with the mission of FR?

Bueller? hello, anyone? LOL


74 posted on 03/03/2010 5:28:21 PM PST by dforest
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To: tlb
Garbage in, garbage out.

(Not that I hated the show or anything, but if we'd had as many channels then as we do now, how many people would have watched it?)

75 posted on 03/03/2010 5:42:40 PM PST by x
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To: Joe 6-pack

Lovey, Oh Lovey!

76 posted on 03/03/2010 5:47:38 PM PST by x
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To: tlb

PC Version no doubt:

Professor - white gay man
Skipper - white pervert man
Gilligan - obama look-a-like bi-sexual (half black/white)
Marianne - hispanic slut
Ginger - redhead virgin tease
Mr Howl - white capitalist closet fag
Mrs Howl - white ice queen

No thanks, I like the original shows.


77 posted on 03/03/2010 5:50:44 PM PST by VastRWCon (Drill Baby Drill - Sarah Palin 2012)
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To: RegulatorCountry

just have to make sure there plenty of locals for horseface to shoot in the back as well...


78 posted on 03/03/2010 8:53:42 PM 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: Screaming_Gerbil

always figured the country chick would beat ms high societys azz...


79 posted on 03/03/2010 8:55:06 PM 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: tlb
And this time somebody gets pregnant.

and of course, someone will have to be "gay".

80 posted on 03/03/2010 8:55:59 PM PST by upsdriver (ret.)
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