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Get ready for another "Fateful Trip": "Gilligan's Island" sails onto Big Screen!

Re: Get ready for another "Fateful Trip": "Gilligan's Island" sails onto Big Screen!

What is wrong with Hollywood? Can't they come up with any original ideas for movies anymore? Why do they always have to remake something and then do such a horrible PC/Eco-friendly bastardization of it? All they accomplish is overfilling the $5 bin at Walmart.
 
Re: Get ready for another "Fateful Trip": "Gilligan's Island" sails onto Big Screen!

There was another "Gilligan" movie in the works back in the 90's. The only casting rumors I remember were Martin Short as Gilligan, John Goodman as the Skipper, and Leslie Nielsen as Mr. Howell.
 
Re: Get ready for another "Fateful Trip": "Gilligan's Island" sails onto Big Screen!

Too many TV remakes, and too many 3-D gimmicks. That, in a nutshell, is Hollywood's idea of entertainment today.

Starting Friday at a theater near you.
 
Re: Get ready for another "Fateful Trip": "Gilligan's Island" sails onto Big Screen!

Have they learned their lessons of turning TV shows into movies and having them be big flops? Leave It To Beaver and The Honeymooners for starters.

On the other hand, The Fugitive and Mission: Impossible when they were turned into movies they became big hits.

I think that they should leave Gilligan's Island well enough alone.
 
Re: Get ready for another "Fateful Trip": "Gilligan's Island" sails onto Big Screen!

That's all Hollywood can do anymore...destroy classic TV shows that I used to enjoy.
You'd think that after what they did to The Beverly Hillbillies they would have learned their lesson.
 
Re: Get ready for another "Fateful Trip": "Gilligan's Island" sails onto Big Screen!

Braves2005 said:
Have they learned their lessons of turning TV shows into movies and having them be big flops? Leave It To Beaver and The Honeymooners for starters.

On the other hand, The Fugitive and Mission: Impossible when they were turned into movies they became big hits.
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Harrison Ford & Tom Cruise. 'Nuff said. Plus, The Fugitive and Mission: Impossible were quality TV dramas. Gilligan's Island was a typical '60s idiot-sitcom. Is Cruise going to star as Gilligan and Ford as the Professor? Doubt it.

I think that they should leave Gilligan's Island well enough alone.
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They should, but they won't. If there's a buck to be made, even in the $5 DVD bin, they'll continue to make this stuff. My Mother the Car: The Motion Picture, anyone? ;D
 
Re: Get ready for another "Fateful Trip": "Gilligan's Island" sails onto Big Screen!

Sitcoms that were made into theatrical movies:

Addams Family
Beverly Hillbillies
Bewitched
Brady Bunch
Car 54, Where Are You?
Family Guy
Flinstones
Get Smart
Honeymooners
Jetsons
Leave It To Beaver
McHales Navy
Munsters
Simpsons
Southpark

What am I missing?
 
Re: Get ready for another "Fateful Trip": "Gilligan's Island" sails onto Big Screen!

searadiofreak said:
Sitcoms that were made into theatrical movies:

Addams Family
Beverly Hillbillies
Bewitched
Brady Bunch
Car 54, Where Are You?
Family Guy
Flinstones
Get Smart
Honeymooners
Jetsons
Leave It To Beaver
McHales Navy
Munsters
Simpsons
Southpark

What am I missing?
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Forgot two...Dennis the Menace and Beavis & Butthead.

I guess one could put Sesame Street on the movie list..remember Follow That Bird?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089994/

As bad as the idea of a big screen verison of "Gilligan's Island" may be I guess it could be worse. A number of years back I can remember talk about a TV movie verison of Mr. Ed with none other than Sherman Hemsley. No I take that back..it WAS made..

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0395403/

I also seem to remember many years ago when the Cartoon Network first started started showing reruns of Wait til Your Father Gets Home, Hanna-Barbara was approached by some studio about doing an "updated" version of that show only to have H-B more/less say "..thanks but NO".

I believe there were plans at one time many years ago to bring both Mama's Family & the Partridge Family to the big screen but thankfully it never happened. Didn't John Amos & Jimmie Walker shortly after the death of Esther Rolle tried to spark interest in a movie version of Good Times?
 
Re: Get ready for another "Fateful Trip": "Gilligan's Island" sails onto Big Screen!

There were plans for Dallas and Welcome Back Kotter to be movies. Also, there is going to be a Dark Shadows movie with Tim Burton as the director.
 
Re: Get ready for another "Fateful Trip": "Gilligan's Island" sails onto Big Screen!

jwgreek8606 said:
There were plans for Dallas and Welcome Back Kotter to be movies. Also, there is going to be a Dark Shadows movie with Tim Burton as the director.
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Not only were there plans on bringing Dallas to the big screen but as I can recall reading in US Magazine at the time there was actually a script written as well. I believe this was around 1980 during the so-called "Who Shot JR?". The movie version of Dallas as I can remember was supposed to be chock full of graphic sex, how much? One scene in the script that was leaked to the taboilds at the time had a woman performing oral sex on JR ( Larry Hagman ) in a hospital bed. At the time there were other similar movies with graphic sex scenes like "Bloodline", "The Postman Always Rings Twice" and of course that infamous shower scene in "Dressed To Kill", I guess the people behind Dallas-The Movie wanted to get that audience.

I don't recall what was the exact reason why the movie wasn't made other than perhaps the fear that a movie Dallas would somehow hurt the ratings of the TV show. Chances are we may never know.
 
Re: Get ready for another "Fateful Trip": "Gilligan's Island" sails onto Big Screen!

I don't recall what was the exact reason why the movie wasn't made other than perhaps the fear that a movie Dallas would somehow hurt the ratings of the TV show. Chances are we may never know.
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Or, with all the R and X rated content, they were afraid it'd be confused with another movie of that era with "Dallas" in the title, and I ain't talkin' about "North Dallas Forty", either!
 
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