How the hell do you update "Gilligan's Island"?
A big screen version of the 60’s TV classic “Gilligan’s Island” is reportedly in the works.
According to Variety, the sitcom, which ran from 1964 to 1967, is being developed for the big screen by Warner Bros. and Atlas Entertainment.
The movie version of the TV series will reportedly take a contemporary approach to the classic characters and premise.
“The characters are so good,” producer Charles Roven told the entertainment trade mag. “We think it’s going to be a great story to transport these cultural icons to the modern day.”
If any one of those characters has a cellphone, this movie is over before it starts.
Conversely, I might watch it if they turn it into a modern day, adult version of "Lord of the Flies," with the superrich Howells being cannibalized by the others.
Eat thr rich!
Posted by: wa ching | March 03, 2010 at 06:19 PM
You could do a decent SNL skit on GOP Gilligan's Island: Bobby Jindal as Gilligan, the McCains as Thurston and Lovey, Dick Cheney as the Skipper, Michelle Bachman as Ginger, Sarah Palin as a toxic MaryAnn. Kinda falls apart when you get the Professor, though Lindsey Graham could cover the whole asexual thing.
If any one of those characters has a cellphone, this movie is over before it starts.
They all have iPhones and they're stranded till that ATT contract runs out and they can get Verizon?
Posted by: Jim | March 03, 2010 at 06:45 PM
Another Sarah Palin lie exposed:
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Posted by: g | March 03, 2010 at 06:49 PM
Jim, ftw
Posted by: punaise | March 03, 2010 at 08:07 PM
We could have Dick Cheney die in every episode.
Posted by: Eric Cartmann | March 03, 2010 at 08:12 PM
Hey Hollywood! Have you forgotten about this concept called "An Original Idea" you pathetic shit stains?
Posted by: Capt. Bat Guano | March 03, 2010 at 08:41 PM
The Professor in a conservative remake?
Why, James Inhofe, of course. Who else?
Posted by: montag | March 03, 2010 at 08:45 PM
A remake of Gilligan's Island? Wasn't that called "Lost"?
Posted by: dan mcenroe | March 03, 2010 at 09:16 PM
Hey hey! Back off the professor! I had a huge girl-crush on him everyday when I watched the show in my allowed after school line-up in grade school.
Gilligan's Island
Lost in Space
Star Trek
then dinner time
on an old black and white model. Oh those days seem so long ago and they are best left there.
This teevee nostalgia is out of control and yes, a lazy grab for a dollar by hollywood.
Posted by: kate | March 03, 2010 at 09:20 PM
The Romneys as Thurston and Lovey. They'd be more believable than McCain and Cindy.
Posted by: Bruce388 | March 03, 2010 at 09:41 PM
If any one of those characters has a cellphone, this movie is over before it starts.
lol!
BTW, from the original series the actress who played Ginger is the only one who made out like a bandit because she negotiated for a percentage as well.
Posted by: George Johnston | March 03, 2010 at 10:30 PM
i always hated the show, except i had a pre-teen thing for the professor. god. 4 channels after school. everything was so stooooopid.
Posted by: pansypoo | March 04, 2010 at 12:20 AM
Maybe they'll do it as a comedy this time.
Posted by: Hugo Bishop | March 04, 2010 at 07:45 AM
Love your casting Jim!
Posted by: Sister Faith | March 04, 2010 at 08:31 AM
pansypoo - Heh, 4,6,10 & 12. I bet you remember Albert the Alley Cat too!
Posted by: FeralLiberal | March 04, 2010 at 10:28 AM
kate, you forgot Dark Shadows. That was the show to watch after school, provided you could hide watching it from your mom!
Posted by: Gindy51 | March 04, 2010 at 10:39 AM
I wonder if they will have bodily functions this time?
Posted by: oldtree | March 04, 2010 at 11:23 AM
vaguely remember the alley cat. more lawrence welk w/ grandparents.
i watched more PBS.
god, after-school teevee sucked.
Posted by: pansypoo | March 04, 2010 at 05:39 PM
I thought there already was a modern remake. It's called Lost. To be fair I don't watch Lost, so I could be wrong.
Posted by: Kevin Lyda | March 05, 2010 at 03:22 AM
somethings should be left alone. We have too much technology for it to even be remotely real. Unless it was Gilligan's Planet. We have easy space travel and folks are on the "3 hour tour" of Mars when they become stranded. Of course they will have had to pack like they were going on a 2 month trip like the SS Minnow folks did.
Posted by: Babyboomer | March 05, 2010 at 01:29 PM
@Gindy: my mom was totally scandalized by Dark Shadows. She once walked in on her darling little boy riveted to the screen as Barnabus Collins lasciviously violated an ingenue (with his teeth, of course!). That reduced the number of afternoon TV choices from three to two, and of course Gilligan's Isl was one of them. I also had a crush on the professor, proving that gay starts very young.
Posted by: noel | March 05, 2010 at 01:52 PM
I read once that Gilligan's Island was an allegory on the Seven Deadly Sins Lust (Ginger), Envy (Maty Ann), Pride (Professor), Greed (Mr. Howell), Sloth (Mrs. Howell), Glttony and Anger (Skipper) - and Gilligan was the Devil (always wore red) who kept them trapped there. Made me laugh when I thought about it, having watched it growing up.
Posted by: ChicagoPat | March 06, 2010 at 10:53 AM
Let me guess, Will Farrell is somehow involved?
Posted by: Duros62 | March 15, 2010 at 11:40 PM