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ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT/WILD HOGS Writer To Pen Big-Screen GILLIGAN’S ISLAND!!
I am – Hercules!!
Sherwood Schwartz has been talking about a big-screen “Gilligan’s Island” movie for decades. I remember interviewing Richard Donner (who directed the TV show and hoped at the time to produce the feature) about it more than two decades ago!
In its latest bid, Warner Bros. has just hired Brad Copeland (“Arrested Development,” “Wild Hogs”) to pen a version that would shipwreck sailors, millionaires, a movie star and a man of science in the cinema.
Was “Gilligan’s Island” so great that it doesn’t deserve the guy who wrote “Wild Hogs”? I’m not entirely certain! What does this clip tell us?:
Find all of Variety’s story on the matter here.
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so what
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"Sold!"
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And i don't have a single fucking new idea anymore.
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this project sounds like retarded ass.
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It's hard to fail when you aim for mediocrity
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You've been warned
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WITH SHIA LEBOUF AS GILLIGAN! Let's do this!
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It wouldn't surprise me if that really happens. Because Hollywood is full of 'tards.
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The brand of humor from the classic tv show would not translate well into a modern movie remake. That's why Sgt. Bilko and Bewitched and McHale's Navy and all those other 50s/60s tv shows-turned-movies failed at the boxoffice.
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yawn.
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Any current "that girl from that one popular CW show" as MaryAnn.Kirstie Alley as Lovey Howell.Patrick Warburton as The Skipper.Matthew Gray Gubler as Gilligan.Nathan Fillian as The Professor.Darrell Hammond as Thurston Howell III.(And, dare I say it, Tiger Woods as the Harlem Globetrotters?)And, yes, script it as a Lost parody.
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Hot off her Oscar nominated performance. -
To make it seem more comedically relevant. It will come off more as a parody of those shows than the actual material its remaking.
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Ugh...
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You knew it. I knew it. Everybody knew it.
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After Will Smith buys his son the starring role in another piece of crap remake.
Aw Hell No! -
cognitive dissonance
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how far do you really think they'd get?
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Is the one when they've found a way to get off the island and Gilligan messes it up in the end. Totally unique idea, why didn't they do that in every episode?
That, or the Gag-again's Island parody Howard Stern did on the channel 9 show with Bob Denver & Dawn Wells. -
Gilligan - Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Skipper - Kevin James, Mr. Howell - Christopher Walken, Mrs. Howell - Helen Mirren, Ginger - Charlize Theron, Professor - Stephen Colbert, Mary Ann - Kristen Kreuk.
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Seriously, are they really going to make that piece of shit? I mean I know "Bewitched" was a fucking brilliant film from a t.v. show, but COME ON!!! Not every fucking thing makes for a good movie. This has steaming pile of shit written all over it. This isn't even one of those films where you can say they're doing it for the money, cause it ain't gonna make fuck. What moronic producer thinks this is a good idea? I want that guys job so when someone says to me, "The Geico cavemen show, now a movie, what do ya think?" I can say fuck you asshole, go suck the "Shrek" producer's cock, maybe he'll be interested in making another tired ass film on a tired ass dead fucking plot. Damn it Hollywood!!!!!! "Inception" can't get here quick enough, or "The Tree of Life" for that matter.
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They are pretty much telling us there are no more orinal ideas out there. Everyone involved in this movie needs to have their ass kicked, from the producers, to the director, to the actors, all the way down to the Kraft Services guy that just trying to make some money to put his kids through school.
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That one guy worked on BOTH Arrested Development AND Wild Hogs??
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Corporate studio assholes have taken this shit too far. Everything from the 20th century now has to be rehashed into a shitty movie because it's a "safer bet" than trying new material? FUCK! Americans of all colors, creeds, and lifestyles need to tell these dumb fucks to go eat a dick if this is all the studio morons can come up with. They don't deserve to have jobs. They don't deserve to have Nick-at-Nite. They don't deserve to have their internal organs. Dukes of Hazzard, Bewitched, The Honeymooners, Transformers, The A-Team, the list goes on far too long. And of course they NEVER get anybody with any actual ideas or passion for the source material. It's just about getting the guy who seems like the safest investment based on previous financial performances. So fuck you Hollywood studios, fuck you in the eye for raping Gilligan's Island, a simple stupid show that people liked will now be vomited into a 2-hour cinematic abortion because it's safer money than funding new ideas. I hope you all get herpes and live long, painful fucking lives scratching your balls off knowing it's NEVER going away, showing up all over your face like a scarlet letter.
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Anyway DJ Qualls as Gilligan and Pierce Brosnan as The Professor. They need the paychecks. Do it now Hollywood.
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This could actually turn out to be a fun movie. You never know.
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I've heard of Michael Cera. Who's this Michael Cena character?
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either the talent quest, or the one where they find a totem with Gilligan's face on it and the native tribe worship him..
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You know it's coming. The Jeffersons? Surprised that hasn't been done yet. Ice-T as George. Beyonce as Florence. You know, this worked in reverse with M.A.S.H. but only before B.J. arrived. He blew.
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Micheal Cera is definetly in talks to play gilligin, but producers are also interested in jessie eisenberg and belive it or not dstin hoffman is very close to singing at Thurston Howell, III and john goodman has the skipper role for surei know people hate remakes, but the script for this thing is actually pretty funny, all of us at the table read were having a great time, you'll enjoy
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fuck off please.
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will be gender and/or race changed. I say the professor. I've heard Grace Park is in talks.
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to sit along that black Honeymooners remake.
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That doesn't even make fucking sense. You can't be good enough to help write the brilliance on AD and then end up writing Wild Hog. That's just insanity.
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From Arrested Development to a franchise whose plots always seem to revolve around stunt men in gorilla suits.
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Maybe his career's on a downward slide, the. Drugs. They'll do it every time!
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Didn't this asswipe get banned already?
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Still have all those "secret sources in the industry" too I see. (smirk)
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Or get really freaky and cast Michael Emerson as the professor. Who'll play that evil beatnik mad scientist from the next island over, I wonder? You know, the one with the trained chimp that he transfers Gilligans mind into? Terry McQuinn?
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That's all I got. (and reason enough to make this)
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Now, I'm done.
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to why hollywood continues to shovel out remakes and reboots of old TV shows, Movies, etc. at an incredible speed. Its all about $$$. The economy is still in the shits, which means studios must be more cautious on what product they market. They know that a remake of Gilligan will bring in double its production cost purely on name recognition. Sure there are the occasional big suprises that make a shit ton of money due to their quality (Hangover), but these are the exception and not the rule. Big studios dont care one bit about the artistic value of movie making, they care about money.
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Mar 03, 2010 7:43:27 AM CST
Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale...
by themagicalhornofguntata
... a tale of a fateful trip...
Why they never showed this in the UK I'll never know. -
Just sayin'.
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Just sayin'.
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wouldn't bother with a movie.
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Gilligan's Planet? Does anybody else remember that cartoon or was it just a fever dream I had as a kid? It was just like Gilligan's Island...but in SPACE!
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You said feb would see the revelation that Nolans latest film would be Batman 3. you had your chance. you blew it. see ya
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Rememeber when you said Nolan's next film was going to be revealed as BATMAN: INCEPTION of the Riddler???Shut the fuck up please.
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We never got Gilligan's Island in the UK so this has zero interest to me either way...
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...it's a formula for pure suckage.
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Gilligan's Island was a staple of my youth, getting shown seemingly constantly in the afternoons during my childhood. I could envision watching this on cable someday, but not actually paying to see it. Unless the Christina Hendricks as Ginger idea comes to pass... and it's a hard R...!
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is "The Munsters" remake with Brad Garrett as Herman Munster?
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Mar 03, 2010 8:18:24 AM CST
What else would Sherwood Schwartz be talking about?
by mastersofnonepodcast
He's been talking about it for decades because it's all he's got aside from The Brady Bunch.
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... If it's as clever and self-mocking as the Brady Bunch reboot, then I'm IN. If it's as bloated and pointless as the Flintstones & Hillbillies reboots, then I'm OUT ... And if it's aimed at kids, I AM FUUCKING DEFINITELY OUT.
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...this or the remake of Arthur. I mean we bitch about when they remake a classic movie and we bitch about when they remake a piece of shit. I'd rather a group of hacks remake this than say, Cheers, or a good movie like Marathon Man(hope I didn't just give someone an idea. I mean, there are lesser talents working in the industry, and they're gonna be making something, so they might as well work on the junk. Maybe if they aim low, it could be okay. Sadly, those of us that watched this as kids, grew up thinking about the sexual possibilities of the show, but you know it won't be a grown up version. The humor will be just as dumb as the tv show, only with farting. I guess we could hope it could turn out as good as The Brady Bunch Movie. And Sgt Bilko should have ben good. I looked forward to that, Steve Martin was a better match for Bilko than he was Clouseau. Too bad, I used to love military comedies, like No time For Sargeants, Wackiest Ship in the Army, and Operation Petticoat.
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This movie for example. Fuck Hollywood.
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I can't see Will Ferrell doing this after the Land of the Lost fiasco. This movie will bomb. No one cares.
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Really Hollywood? Gilligans Island? Really?
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please make it stop.
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. . . the one where they find and plant the radioactive vegetable seeds. Spinach = Super Strength. Carrots = Super Vision. Sugar Beats = Super Speed. Ahhh childhood . . .
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I very vaguely remember that. It was a Filmation cartoon, wasn't it? And there was a Sid and Marty Croft show where Bob Denver and Alan Hale, Jr were some sort of maintenance workers for a space agency, and there was some opening sequence where Bob's character pushes the launch button when Alan's character had said "Lunch" instead. So they got sent into outer space.
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. . . are complete tools.
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Let's see. I could imagine a version of this with the Apatow crew. I also get this twisted idea in my head that somehow has Jay and Silent Bob on the island.
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How about neither...
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...were actually pretty good bad movies. So Gilligan might work. I saw A Very Brady Sequel again not too long ago. I'd forgotten about Greg and Marcia wanting to bang each other and the hallucinagenic mushrooms, "I'M TRIPPING WITH THE BRADYS!!!" If Gilligan could be done like that...maybe. Like someone else said here, the Apatow bunch could make this worth watching. Of course it's more likely to wind up a McHale's Navy or Sgt. Bilko or Bewitched or Beverly Hillbillies or...
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as Mary Ann and Ginger.
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Nicole Kidman as Mrs Howell.
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I would look forward to this movie. I think it has as much of a chance as being done well and entertaining as it has of being a bomb and a stinker. I am an easy to please movie goer and can be very forgiving.
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Just sit right backand you'll hear a tale,a tale of a dumbass twitwhose movie concepts sucked like helland pushed out loads of shit
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have been offered the role. It's only a matter of time before one of these untalented pricks accept the role.
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I think AICN is scooping from internet cookies or google cache.
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with Bob Denver and Chuck McCann, who is a dead ringer for Alan Hale Jr. so I can understand your confusion. Not to be be confused with "Space Nuts" the porno flick.
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With Chuck McCann in the Skipper-ish role, not Alan Hale. I was like 10 when it came on and even then I knew I was watching crap.
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That's the only way this would get my money, if it were done in that spirit. I'm thinking Beverly D'Angelo as Mrs. Howell, and how about Jeff Goldblum as Thurston? Megan Fox would actually be perfect as Ginger, she'd just have to play herself to be the self-absorbed low-talent bitch that was at the heart of Ginger. Mary Ann needs to be today's Sally Field (whoever that is)! Round it out with Andre Braugher as the skipper and Jesse Eisenberg as Gilligan, and you have your next summer blockbuster!
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...Make Ginger a celeb who became famous for a sex tape... and make sure the island has a foot statue, polar bears, and a smoke monster and it will be cool...
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It's been so very long since I saw the show, I must've thought, "Since that was Bob Denver, the other person must've been Alan Hale Jr." But, now I know the truth.
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being trapped on an Island with cell phones, Ipods and GPS really will make a rescue a no brainer.
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and he's trying to associate that great series with new Hollywood garbage like Wild Hogs & Gilligan's Island.
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to play Gilligan.
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I'm just trying to figure out which one
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Gilligan = Zack Braff
Skipper = Michael Chiklis
Mr. Howell = John O'Hurley
Mrs. Howell = Megan Mullally
Ginger = Beyoncé
Professor = Simon Baker
Mary Ann = ???
I'd like to see Mary Ann turned into a hot, rough & tumble Aussie Outback farm girl. Someone who could make a kick-ass coconut cream pie AND build the shit out of a hut (usually shoving Gilligan aside in the process). A character who's more than just eye candy, in other words. -
Mar 03, 2010 11:04:21 AM CST
I'm only going to say one thing: Christina Hendricks as Ginger
by willthethrill
P.S. The movie will suck no matter who writes, directs, stars in or is the gaffer for it.
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Just because she has red hair? Come on, guys.
This is as pointless as the time (about 11 years ago) when a friend of mine declared that Bonnie Raitt should play Rogue in an "X-Men" movie, just because she had that stripe in her hair. -
The clues are all there!
http://tinyurl.com/yb64vpf -
http://www.fanpop.com/spots/lost/links/10703144
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Jesus christ, seriously?
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That someday we're gonna get a Three's Company remake with Stiffler filling in for John Ritter?
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For the past 40-some years, I think fans everywhere have really been craving Gilligan's back-story.
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Mar 03, 2010 12:20:43 PM CST
You know, if they used the cast of LOST for this . . .
by royston lodge
. . . THEN I would actually pay $10 to see it.
Seriously, imagine Gilligan's Island as a LOST parody, STARRING the cast of LOST.
Sure, it would basically be a 90 minute MTV Movie Awards skit, but I bet it would actually make money.
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It practically writes itself.
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I can think of two other big reasons why she should be Ginger other than the red hair...
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We'd be treated to rape, sodomy, cannibalism, scurvy, self-mutilation, torture and human sacrifice. There'd be a 20-minute scene in which Gilligan drinks sea water and pukes his guts out. Ginger would shave her head and eat sand. And the Professor would tell Mary Ann he knows how to get off the island, but first she has to perform a series of 100 humiliating & degrading tasks.
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i say kelsey grammer for mr. howell
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And have him screw escape attempts up, doing the hokey "little buddy" shtick throughout the movie. At the end, have a scene with him in a cave surrounded by hundreds of Ginger pics, with him saying "She WILL be mine! We're not leaving till she is!" and going totally evil! THAT would be funny!
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Hey, you know what, this movie will either suck or never be made. So this is all a moot point. And I doubt I would ever pay money in a million years to see it.
But IF they are going to make it and IF they want to cast it well, my nomination for Ginger would TOTALLY be Christina Hendricks.
octagon and jonas grumpy, I wouldn't JUST cast her because she has red hair and a vaa vaa voom body reminiscent of the original actress... although that certainly helps! :-)
I would also cast her because she plays both sexy and innocent well, she is funny as hell (watch her guest star appearances in Firefly if you don't believe me) and she has that old-fashioned 50's or 60's movie star quality to her (just watch Mad Men if you don't believe me). And those are ALL qualities that an actress cast as Ginger would need.
By the way... I can't BELIEVE I am seriously discussing this movie. Sheeeeeeeeeesh.
I'm just a big fan of Christina Hendricks, and when I thought of Ginger she was the first actress that popped into my mind. -
...and there was also "The New Adventures of Gilligan" in 1974. Both by Filmation. Look them up on YouTube.
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Jay Mewes as Gilligan. The only way to make it not suck.
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maybe he just produced it though.
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Hey little buddy, want to snort some coke? Wahh! I'm stuck on an tropical island with some hot broads and I can't bang any of them.
Hey, didn't Richard Donner direct some episodes of Gilligan's Island? Maybe they should get him to direct the film. Get it all "Lethal Weapon"-like and have Skipper be the Danny Glover straight-man character while Gilligan is this suicidal, out of control first-mate, who lives by his own rules, but doesn't give a fuck if they get rescued. It starts off with all the castaways of the Minnow being murdered by the gorilla who found those leftover WWII weapons in one of the caves on the island. It seems that the castaways accidentally discovered that the Gorilla was using the island as a staging point to smuggle drugs from Southeast Asia into the US. Then at the film's climax they have a martial arts showdown between Gilligan and the gorilla at the Lagoon. Then at the verry end the giant spider shows up, like the one they found in the cave on the TV series (because Jon Peters will be executive producer) and Gilligan and the gorilla will have to team up take it down together. Meanwhile Artie-Skipper is just taking down the drugs in his own unique way. -
there won't be an option to reboot or remake anything because THERE ARE NO NEW FUCKING IDEAS RIGHT NOW!!!
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I don't know what I did to piss in your Corn Flakes, but I can't imagine you're actually excited about this news. That'd be like saying last year's Land of the Lost movie was like Jurassic Park, only good.
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Ginger is a porn star in this version with a sexual addiction. 90 minutes of her giving blowjobs.
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... And the Professor finally reveals, after subjecting Mary Ann to 100 unspeakable ordeals, that he doesn't know how to get off the island after all. Mary Ann castrates the Professor and sets him on fire. Then she blinds herself and cuts off her ears. The US Navy arrives at this moment and she refuses to be rescued. "I AM this island," she says in Danish, "I am one of its stones. I will outlive you all."
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but is it true?
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Gilligan's Island...The Movie? They tried that on TV back in the 70's and it SUCKED! TWICE!! What make them thin k it'll be any better???
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...It was 3 times. 2 movies of them being rescued and ending up back on the island and then the Harlem Globetrotters visiting, along with pre-academy award winner Martin Landau (and his ex-wife Barbara Bain) certainly not the high-point in his career.
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http://movies.msn.com/movies/article.aspx?news=486021>1=28101
And I vote Worthington for Skipper. -
What's the over/under?
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Craig T. Nelson puts on some weight for Skipper, the other doctor that's not Julian McMahon as Professor, and Hendricks in all her bosom-busting glory as Ginger Grant.
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Mar 03, 2010 7:13:31 PM CST
Paul Dano as Gilligan! And Paul Dano in the Joey Ramone bio!
by planetran_fan
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Christina Hendricks as ginger,Rashida Jones as mary anne
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and Natalie Portman as Mary Ann. Yeah! Like to see her in those tight shorts!
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Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale.A tale of a piece of shit.Some writer down in HollywoodHas started writing it.The star is a mighty Actor Man.Okay, no, that's a lie.He's just another talentlessOverpaid white guy...The writing started getting rough,The plotline getting lossed.If not for the brainless in the audience,The script would have been tossed.Um...that's it. I'm done. Sorry.
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"lossed" should be "lost."wtf?
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Nonononono Skiper. Nonononono!
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Nonononono!
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