It is one of those things we all knew had to happen eventually.
Perhaps sparked by the success of its clear spiritual successor,
“Lost,” the original group of castaways is coming back to the big
screen. By this I am obviously referring to the “Gilligan’s Island”
film expected to hit theaters in July 2011. This potential shipwreck
was announced earlier this month.
Producer Sherwood Schwartz, producer on the new film and creator of the original series (who is still kicking around at age 93. 93!), has hand picked his top choice for Gilligan. Michale Cera. Ugh... I'm looking forward to "Scott Pilgrim vs The World" but I think that I've watched Michale Cera play the bumbling idiot more then enough times. Getting old. I would use Martin Starr as the title character. Schwartz has his eye on Beyoncé Knowles as Ginger. No complaints on that one. Skipper in my mind would be Patrick Warburton.
This is not the first time we have seen the castaways since the series ended in 1967. The series was followed by two animated series and three made for tv movies.
In one of the animated series the castaways ended up stranded on an alien planet! Yep, interstellar travel is no problem, but fix a hole in a boat? You're crazy!
I want to see that movie!
The made for TV films tell the story of the castaways after being rescued an starting a resort on the island.
I think the only way to make this movie work is to make it campy as possible. Like the "Brady Bunch" movies, or "Starsky and Hutch." It needs that pure silliness to keep the audience from wondering how it is they never manage to get off the island, much like in the original show.
Most of the episodes revolved around getting off the island, which would need to be a major part of the film, but there would also need to be a villain. The original show didn't have too many antagonists. The occasional island native, and the rotating cast of characters that would periodically pop on the island and then leave. In a film... maybe pirates, or an evil land developer. Eh... that needs a little more thought...
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Ooh! I know! The evil land developer will be trying to bulldoze the community center that the castaways worked so hard to build. And they'll have to put together some just-crazy-enough-to-work scheme to raise enough money to keep him from doing it. And there'll be some sort of big spectacle event (a sponsored dance-off, perhaps?) that Gilligan and Mary Ann will have to win in order to secure the funds. But they'll have to beat the land developer's obnoxious, privileged son and his gang of ne'er-do-wells to do it, and they cheat! But a convenient McGuffin introduced in the second act happens to be worth enough money to the right person to make the difference, and the castaways get to live on the island the way THEY want to, and no rich land developer will ever bother them again!
ReplyDelete... maybe this should be the plot of the sequel. Gilligan's Island 2: Electric Boogaloo?