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'Fantasy Island' Movie in the Works at Blumhouse
Hollywood Reporter ^ | July 31, 2018 | Mia Galuppo

Posted on 07/31/2018 7:56:10 PM PDT by EdnaMode

Fantasy Island is coming to the big screen.

Blumhouse and Sony will co-finance and co-produce a feature based on the popular ABC TV series about a magical, wish-fulfilling island that would attract travelers hoping to live out their wildest fantasies.

Jeff Wadlow, who worked with Blumhouse on the recent release Truth or Dare, is attached to direct from a script he is writing with Chris Roach and Jillian Jacobs. Wadlow also will executive produce along with Blumhouse’s Couper Samuelson. Ryan Turek will oversee for Blumhouse and Matt Milam will oversee for Sony.

Wadlow, who also directed Kick Ass 2, is repped by UTA, Artists First and Hirsch Wallerstein


TOPICS: Arts/Photography; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: fantasyisland; fantasyislandmovie; hollywood; noideasleft
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Calling Peter Dinklage (who is already playing Hervé Villechaize in an HBO movie).
1 posted on 07/31/2018 7:56:10 PM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: EdnaMode

....another 100 million dollar rerun
from brain dead Hollywood.


2 posted on 07/31/2018 7:59:00 PM PDT by Doogle (( USAF.68-....8th TFW Ubon Thailand....never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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"Da plan! Da plan!"

Was Barbie Benton ever in FITOS?

3 posted on 07/31/2018 7:59:14 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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To: Doogle

Will they resist having a transgender or furry fantasy?


4 posted on 07/31/2018 8:00:29 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Steely Tom

“Was Barbi Benton ever on FITOS?

Yes! In 8 episodes altogether, from 1978 through 1982.


5 posted on 07/31/2018 8:02:39 PM PDT by hoagy62 (America Supreme!)
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To: Rurudyne

Doubt it...


6 posted on 07/31/2018 8:02:52 PM PDT by Doogle (( USAF.68-....8th TFW Ubon Thailand....never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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To: EdnaMode
Calling Peter Dinklage (who is already playing Hervé Villechaize in an HBO movie).

Making it a far, far darker version of Fantasy Island.


7 posted on 07/31/2018 8:05:09 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (I can't tell if we live in an Erostocracy (rule by sex) or an Eristocracy (rule by strife and chaos))
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Yes! In 8 episodes altogether, from 1978 through 1982.

Wow, eight!

I predict big things for Barbi's full-function robot version in the future.

I wonder if she's already sold the rights?

8 posted on 07/31/2018 8:07:54 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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To: EdnaMode
a magical, wish-fulfilling island that would attract travelers hoping to live out their wildest fantasies.


9 posted on 07/31/2018 8:11:06 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: KC_Lion

Ping.


10 posted on 07/31/2018 8:30:07 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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11 posted on 07/31/2018 8:33:49 PM PDT by dsrtsage (For Leftists, World History starts every day at breakfast)
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To: EdnaMode

Why, Why, Why??????

I can’t think or a worse idea. That was a nice campy show 40 years ago. The problem with a Hollywood picture is most reboots or remakes of TV shows turn out badly, with a few exceptions.

I smell a BOMB coming!!!!!!!!!!!


12 posted on 07/31/2018 8:34:04 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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To: EdnaMode

Da plane !!! Da plane !!!


13 posted on 07/31/2018 8:37:13 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: Captain Peter Blood

Fantasy Island, like The Love Boat, was a vehicle for allowing a bunch of has-been and never-were actors a chance to collect a check.


14 posted on 07/31/2018 8:38:58 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

Exactly. Mostly has been stars from the Old Golden age looking to just do something or they needed a paycheck. Sometimes it was hard to watch the old stars, especially the men who had grown their hair with some sideburns trying to look hip and pick up younger women.

I saw a interview with actor Ray Milland and he was asked about some the material he did late in his career and he was truthful, he said, “the money my dear, the money.”


15 posted on 07/31/2018 8:44:15 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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I agree. And you wonder what they will do to placate the politically correct crowd. Who will be the gay character? Who will be the social justice warrior? Will we be told how the island has gotten their carbon footprint under control, and that the new Mr. Roarke and Tattoo are environmentalists???


16 posted on 07/31/2018 8:51:00 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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Ah yes, the Love Boat was on ABC on Saturday nights around the time Fantasy Island was on.

Imagine if they had an updated Love Boat. There would be numerous storylines revolving around homosexuality, I’m sure. And don’t forget the “transgendered” characters looking for love.


17 posted on 07/31/2018 8:52:09 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: dfwgator

And it was marketed to a bunch of lonely people of the same vintage so they could fantasize about having a whirlwind romance without actually spending money needed for medications and maintaining their old homes and cars on having said romances.

Always a market for that.


18 posted on 07/31/2018 8:56:22 PM PDT by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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To: Doogle

The Pilot Movie was actually much darker and intriguing than the eventual TV series. If they lean that way, give the characters some depth, avoid political correctness, unseemly political messages, and write a good script....it could work!!!!

Besides, I was in High School when Love Boat/Fantasy Island were running on Saturday nights My sister and I would laugh at ourselves as we sat there watching some of the worst TV ever produced....knowing we had nothing better going on in our lives. In fact, my sister and I are going to the movie together when it gets released just for the memories....which as it turns out are actually pretty special.


19 posted on 07/31/2018 8:57:46 PM PDT by Mustangman
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To: EdnaMode

Recycling old ideas done to death.

Oooh i so want to go see this craptacular debacle.


20 posted on 07/31/2018 9:08:33 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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