Last week, the ‘net was abuzz with the news that a new deal was made to finally make a Gilligan’s Island movie. A Gilligan feature has been rumored to be in the works several times over the years, usually with the hottest comedy stars of the day attached to play the iconic characters. As we all know, big-screen remakes of classic TV shows often flop at the box-office, usually because they stray too far from the elements of what made the original series popular. It’ll be interesting to see what kind of storyline this new Gilligan movie will have and how it’ll compare to the original cast movie ideas that never happened.
Gilligan’s Island follows a group of wacky castaways that have been shipwrecked on a deserted island. No matter how hard they try, their escape attempts always fail, usually due to the ineptness of S.S. Minnow’s first-mate, Gilligan. The cast of the 1960s sitcom is made up of Bob Denver, Alan Hale Jr., Jim Backus, Natalie Schafer, Tina Louise, Russell Johnson, and Dawn Wells.
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