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."
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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".
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.
I’ll take Mary Ann for a three hour tour, a three hour tour.
Michael Cera
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BTW, Mary Ann.
With cameo appearances from the cast of “Lost”.
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.
My votes for "Mary Anne":
Or
Or even
Why?
Global warming is slowly submerging the island; they have to figure out a way to get away.
Thank You. I told people about Bob Story twenty years ago and they thought I was crazy.
“Contemporary Take”: characters will be sleeping with each other.
LOL!
Too funny. Thanks for posting. I’d watch that. :-)
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.
better question was always ‘Mary Ann or Genie’ ???
Huh???? Who’s Bob Story?
Very true but I did kind of like the Starsky & Hutch movie.
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