James Gunn and Charlie Kaufman can’t make a cannibal Gilligan’s Island reboot, for some reason
Greenlight a gritty Gilligan's Island reboot, you cowards
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James Gunn and Charlie Kaufman are both respected filmmakers in their own rights… albeit one for their beloved, subversive, splatterfest genre fare, while the other for their beloved, subversive arthouse darlings. Nary the two have met, but apparently that isn’t their fault. In fact, there’s a project both have intermittently attempted to get off the ground for decades, and quite frankly, we can’t figure out why it’s been so difficult for the two of them.
Responding to a rather innocuous meme recently making the rounds involving unlikely film combinations, Gunn revealed one of Hollywood’s lesser-known what-ifs (no, not that one): a dark, gritty, gruesome Gilligan’s Island reboot written by Charlie Kaufman. In the proposed reboot, instead of engaging in wholesome tropical shenanigans, everybody plots to kill and eat one another out of desperation.
“A true story: In the late ‘90s screenwriting GOAT Charlie Kaufman pitched a movie version of Gilligan’s Island where the islanders, starving & desperate, started killing & eating each other,” Gunn tweeted yesterday, adding that, “Warner Bros wanted to do it – but Sherwood Schwartz, the creator, said no way.”
Gunn went on to explain that, following his massive success with Guardians Of The Galaxy, he tried his damndest to bring the idea to life once again. Apparently, both Warners Bros. and Kaufman were both on board (so to speak), but Schwartz’s estate still wanted nothing to do with it. “Anyway, if the Schwartz estate changes their mind, I’m here,” Gunn signed off.
Listen up, Hollywood. We know you’ve got a lot on your plate right now, but one thing is damn certain: The world needs—nay, deserves—a disgusting Gilligan’s Island-meets-Ravenous project, preferably starring Sean Gunn as Gilligan, Michael Rooker as The Skipper, and/or Nathan Fillion as The Professor.
And while we’d usually say such projects are impossible, pie-in-the-sky fantasies… well, stranger things have happened.
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James Gunn’s edgelord schtick is about to get old.[deep inhale]And there it goes.
A few points:1) I genuinely agree, and the following points are just there for nuance.2) I don’t think it’s edgelord exactly, it’s Troma which is a different brand of shock value nastiness. Edgelord humor involves an [false] implication of intellectual daring and honesty. Gunn simply revels in nastiness as a form of camp entertainment.3) Hasn’t it always been pretty tired? His most watchable film (GOTG 1) is tempered by mainstream expectation and an original screenplay that wasn’t his to sand his sense of humor down and raise up the real emotional character beats. He’s frankly just not a very good writer when left to his own devices where he can revel in the elements of his work that are most juvenile and least interesting.4) Last but not least; I’m not sure the mainstream audience will ever fully turn on him as he exists, ironically enough, as such a strong counterpoint to the safeness of the MCU. I didn’t like his Suicide Squad, but there’s no denying there was something exciting in not knowing just how nasty a superhero franchise was suddenly willing to get. It doesn’t make his films good, but it gives them a niche.
Gunn’s non-superhero movies are a lot of fun, not sure why anyone would want them to go away
I’ve only seen two of his films, one of which was Super. I couldn’t get into that, having already watched Defendor.
Super and Defendor were released at essentially the same time. If you’re saying you’d just had enough of that theme then sure, but I hope you’re not implying any copying (especially because The Specials…written by James Gunn…also had a similar theme, delusional superheroes are like his thing man). Maybe give it another go now. However, I don’t know if it was one of the two you saw but you gotta see Slither, it’s loads of fun
I wasn’t implying copying. Just that Defendor is about what would actually happen if someone was deluded enough to think they were a superhero, so the lack of consequences in Super just made it seem much dumber.Both Defendor & Super were beaten to the punch by “Special” with Michael Rapaport, whose protagonist’s delusion is the result of an experimental drug. Unlike the others, this also causes him to imagine people he perceives as antagonists into villains that don’t really exist even in the organized crime sense.
That’s fair, although I’m not sure that was the point of Super. There’s a fine line between people who are delusional that they are good superheroes and people who are delusional that they are superheroes at all (and who knows when the screenplays were written)…Mystery Men may or may not have beaten The Specials (who knows when the screenplays were written), but both of those were beaten by: Blankman!
“His most watchable film (GOTG 1)“
OK.
Troma really gets on my nerves at times as someone who loves gross and offensive humor. My gross and offensive humor needs to have effort, and sometimes they just went for the laziest shock value possible. (ie: they joke about James Byrd Jr’s murder by hate crime and there’s no joke to it, it’s just loldecapitation)
I’ll take the Toxic Avenger any day over almost any “gross or offensive” humor in a film, lazy or not.
Toxie himself is always a great character
They got on my nerve with Terror Firmer when they kept dumping on Spielberg in the midst of a far worse movie than 1941.
I watched that because I knew Toilet Boys (band) who were in it. I made it through the whole thing … That’s about all I have to say.
Early in our relationship, my wife bought me a VHS copy of Redneck Zombies, which I had never been able to find and was really excited to watch. In other words, early in our relationship my wife wasted $10.
aww, might I suggest Zombie Strippers? It had a bunch of mid-00’s political commentary. Don’t remember if it was quite good but it definitely isn’t boring!
His most watchable film (GOTG 1) is tempered by mainstream expectation and an original screenplay that wasn’t his to sand his sense of humor down and raise up the real emotional character beats.As ugly and ungracious as his complaining about Nicole Perlman getting co-writer credit for GotG was (and honestly, I find that more offensive than any of the nonsense he’s put on Twitter, which was mainly just workshopping really bad comedy) there’s no question that the bulk of the stuff that makes the movie work comes from him. The main thing that sanded down his worst tendencies (and a big reason why GotG1 and 2 are a lot better than The Suicide Squad) is that the Guardians movies had to be PG-13, so Gunn had to restrict himself to only one or two scenes of jokey, mindless violence per movie, rather than making it the whole movie, and he couldn’t lean on the idea that Idris Elba dropping f-bombs was inherently funny. And I say this as a big fan of Idris, profanity, and the two put together well…
Really? I’ll take James Gunn’s Troma sensibilities over watching another movie that just ends up as three hours of Charlie Kaufman being up his own ass.
People crying about and using the term edge lord is tiring.
Disagree. Maybe you’re just getting old.It’s not like everyone else is making the same stuff as Gunn, he’s fairly unique compared to most of the stuff out there.
There’s no maybe about it. I’m just not sure I was ever young enough to be entertained by Gunn.But you are right about him being unique. I mean where else can you possibly find an entitiled white man-child using juvenile humor and graphic violence to stick it to the Man?
He does fantastical horror comedy. Do you have issues with Killer Klowns from Outer Space too?“juvenile humor and graphic violence to stick it to the Man?” Yeah no. You just seem to have a vendetta against him now. Who’s your horror director of choice these days?
Zack Snyder!Obviously….
Probably.
hooh boy, happy to see some people agreeing here.i think he’s probably got a few things up his sleeve, but i do find his joke-writing in particular to be very one note. i enjoyed ‘the suicide squad’ but some of the banter was really grating and many of the jokes were a very mid-2010s ‘well that happened!’ style. that being said he’s still very good at visual jokes and visual punchlines, it’s just his dialogue gets to me sometimes.and guardians 2…well it’s my least fave mcu movie. i know it’s beloved, i know most people think it exceeds the first…but man i hate that movie.
See, this is the kind of project that doesn’t need an existing property at all. A lot of people today have never seen an episode of that show so they would miss any reference you might want to use. Worse, those who don’t know the show might not be interested, and those who liked the show might not want to see characters they like eating each other.Just create new characters with the same concept and go with it!
Yeah but for them it’s not about the actual idea/satire, or else they could easily do this. It’s about upending a traditional IP from inside the IP. I can see why that’s appealing to both Kaufman and Gunn, but it’s definitely coming from the trollish sides of each, not the artistic sides.
Also, Charlie Kaufman was at a very different place in the late 90s than today. It’s easy to imagine a studio hiring a modestly renowned screenwriter to bang out a cannibal pastiche of Gilligan’s Island during the Austin Powers/Brady Movie/Space Ghost Coast to Coast decade. Twenty years later, who’s going to pay an academy award winner and a guy who makes big budget action movies for a niche project that only appeals to morbid 40 somethings?
That didn’t work well for that last Fantasy Island movie
I think it’s one of those properties where new generations may never have watched it but they are still picking it up through cultural osmosis. A high school kid today may not have any interest in watching the show but they’re still likely to have seen it referenced and parodied a thousand times and seen screengrabs wherever and even know who the characters are.
Except the thing is kids don’t even pick things up through cultural osmosis like we did. At least, not the things we might think. The young ones today know totally different things.Imagine my surprise when a young person I met named Angela had no idea how to respond to me greeting of Aay Oh, Oh Aay..
The Professor and Mary Ann nervously listen to the theme song to see if they’re referred as “the rest”.
Or ‘the sides’ or ‘the appetizers’
“the leftovers”
Eat the spare!
Oh man, a hungry Skipper and the Howells are coming for them!
“C’mere, little buddy!”
Coconut Murder Weapons
Why don’t they just do a Jeffery Epstein movie and call it “Pedo Island”? I’m sure Gunn would be down for that shit.
Hard pass. And gratitude to the original creator for aborting this abomination.
Cannibalistic Gilligan’s Island just reads like a Robot Chicken skit.
That or a Family Guy cutaway gag.
Yeah the staying power of it is a good 10-15 seconds, so it’s perfect for that format
It seems like the original I.P. isn’t going to be available, so why not just make a film that is obviously referencing (but legally distinct from) Gilligan’s Island?Cast Jim Gaffigan as the Skipper and call it Gaffigan’s Island. He can do his food-based humor about chunks of the other castaways.
Staaabbbyyyyyy Entrails…
Honestly, fuck that.
Would I want to see a movie about seven strangers eating each other on an island? No. Would the same concept be improved with the characters from Gilligan’s Island? No.
Imagine a body of work in which “Gilligan’s Island” and “The Brady Bunch” are your two crowning achievements. When I saw those shows at the age of six I thought they were insulting my intelligence.
Brady Bunch is oddly groundbreaking in having a blended family. They tried to outright state that Carol was divorced but were shot down, too scandalous. Also Carol and Mike sharing a bed was risque for that time too
A lesser man would point our that you don’t need to say “also” AND “too.”I am that lesser man.
That’s good that you also wouldn’t do such a thing too as well.
Except the blending was almost never mentioned, IIRC. Once you got past the first 2-3 episodes or so, the fact that the kids were step-siblings was never discussed.(Similarly, I had grown up watching the color MY THREE SONS episodes. When Nick At Night started running the B&W episodes and I found out that there was an original oldest brother who aged out of the show, and that Ernie was adopted? Mind=blown.)
“Except the blending was almost never mentioned, IIRC. Once you got past the first 2-3 episodes or so, the fact that the kids were step-siblings was never discussed.”The theme song is all about how they became a blended family. So I guess it’s probably a good thing that they didn’t beat that point home (and/or mine it for comedy) during the show proper.
And yet those shows are remembered 50+ years later and are a lasting part of pop culture. Even if most people only watch them ironically, they still watch them.
Sub-mediocre 60s and 70s stuff imprinted itself on people in the 80s and 90s through constant repetition, and now in the 2020s we’re stuck with this nuisance legacy. Call it the “Turtles” paradox.
Dead on. It’s the reason I find myself watching the fucking Love Boat…or at least the first minute when you get to see the guest stars.I think a lot of it was we just had such limited programming: I mean, I lived in NY and was lucky that I had eight channels (including PBS) and the insanity that was UHF. Folks in even more rural area had less options.
Our local UHF station in Chicago ran the usual weirdo array of old sitcoms and infomercials during the day, and at night it ran movies whose copyrights were expired or disputed. That was how I got the shit scared out of me by Black Sunday as a kindergartner and also how I saw Night of the Living Dead for the first time as a teenager.
Same here. That and Carnival of Souls really freaked me out as a little kid. Chicago had the original Svengoolie, right? You guys had some cool “regional” TV back in those days.
And of course there was always “Vincent Price Week” or “Monster Week” on this national channel:
Oh man does that 4:30 movie intro take me back. I had no idea it wasn’t just channel 7 in Detroit. I used to live for Godzilla week, but my sister was all about Planet of the Apes week.
Yeah, ‘Gilligan’s Island’ went off the air years before I was born, but it was on all the time as far back as I can remember. It (and Brady Bunch) were on TV regularly throughout my youth and even a little beyond, even after cable was widely available.
And “Star Trek” and “Bewitched” — those were everywhere in syndication in the 1970s and 1980s.
And I DREAM OF JEANNIE, which we don’t talk about any more.
Gilligan’s Island is enjoyable, despite the occasional casual racism.The Brady Bunch is nigh-unwatchable.
I admire the mechanics of Gilligan’s Island and other 60s wacky sitcoms. They’re like incredibly well-designed machines dispensing the stupidest jokes imaginable at a reliable and rapid-fire pace. I can’t ever actually sit down and watch an episode ever again but the craft behind them is really something. The second best thing about Brady Bunch is looking at the groovy clothes and sets. The best is it gave us two Brady Bunch movies in the 90s with Gary Cole as Mr. Brady in a performance that’s about a thousand times better and more surreal than anyone could possibly expect.
Gary Cole is SO perfect as Mr. Brady. No shit, he deserves way more recognition for just how good he is in that role.Course, he’s pretty great in everything so…
So many great works I go back to and discover Gary Cole was in them.
As a kid who watched the show on Nick@Nite I did NOT get the joke at all. I just thought they did a remake set in the 90’s and didn’t think anything of it. Now it’s a damn masterpiece and I want to see them do this with more classic shows. Except Bewitched
I remember asking so many questions a kid on the logic of those shows, and adults from that era always said “kid, it’s a show/movie”. They just accepted so much as is.
Hogan’s Heroes is the ultimate example for me. The premise is both horrible and ridiculous. The jokes are all catchphrases that get beaten into the ground by the end of the first season, and that’s not to mention the ick factor surrounding Crane. And yet I can still watch it. I don’t ever laugh mind you, but I’m somehow entertained. It’s honestly mystifying to me.
It was arguably one of the first “workplace comedies”, with the Germans in the role of the company’s idiot management.
It is horrible in concept, made slightly better by the fact that most of the buffoonish Nazis were played by Jews, some of whom actually escaped from Nazi Germany themselves.
Werner Klemperer (Col. Klink) served in WWII in the Pacific Theater and agreed to play the role of Klink only on the condition that the character was always portrayed as “a buffoon who never succeeded.”
*imagines myself living in a massive house while the rerun residuals siphon into my bank account until doomsday* Yep, sounds horrid.
I agree with this sentiment heartily, but reading it, I couldn’t help but think about the moment in About a Boy (not sure if it made the movie or if it was just in the book) when the main character has driven away everyone in his life by being a worthless piece of crap, and Santa’s Super Sleigh—a fairly annoying Christmas song his father wrote and whose royalties allow him to live while contributing absolutely nothing to the world at large—starts to play, marking the moment he hits rock bottom.
Okay, but in that scenario the guy was living off his father’s stupid legacy. This dude put in the work himself, he deserves to kick his feet up & enjoy it.
I’m sure he enjoyed the big house and residuals while while it lasted, but since 2011, Schwartz has been kicking up his heels in the afterlife.
Now imagine two of Hollywood’s biggest directors still talking about those works and finding them worth revisiting.
You could be Sidney Sheldon, whose claims to fame are I DREAM OF JEANNIE and a handful of beach read bestsellers.Actually, I’m sure Sherwood Schwartz is just ducky with being known for GILLIGAN’S ISLAND and THE BRADY BUNCH, because those shows have never left syndication.
Sidney Sheldon, Harold Robbins, Arthur Hailey, James Michener…Those guys made a lot of money and a lot of shitty novels.
They really did, Harry Dean Learner.They really did.
I don’t know what to think of Michener. My Dad LOVED Michener but he had shitty taste so as a young person I shied away. Michener just seems like he’s from a bygone time for Greatest Generation or earlier types. Like old school musicals. OTOH, my dad also really liked Clavell and I did dig those books.
They sure did, but we’re not exactly discovering the cure to cancer over here.
My grandmother definitely had a few of his romance novels. The horror at realizing that was essentially her porn.
It was my Mom’s, too — along with Harold Robbins and Frank Yerby. Both are pretty much forgotten now (Spock’s comic reference to Robbins as one of the “Giants of 20th Century Literature” aside!), but Robbins was the one of the most successful novelists of the 1950s through the 1980s, and from the 1940s-1970s Frank Yerby (the first Man of Color to be No.1 on the NY TIMES Bestseller List) wrote a huge number of largely historical bestsellers.
I’ll take Sidney Sheldon over E. L. James any day of the week. Making bank of schlock will never go away.
Not a bit of it, Janet, as Edward Bulwer-Lytton and Elinor Glyn can attest!
I’d rather make millions off some innocuous entertainment people still talk about fondly fifty years later than what I’m doing now.
Are you really trying to shit on Sherwood Schwarts? He babysat a generation of us. His success is absurd and glorious.
Hey-when you can build a working automobile out of palm trees and coconuts, THEN you can criticize Gilligan’s Island.
But ‘Green Acres’ had surprisingly intelligent comedy despite being about a misguided blowhard, a ditzy foreign blonde, and a countryside full of yokels.
Is that you, Dave from Newsradio?
Green Acres needs an update… with characters that riff on Trump and Melania. Failed business magnate and his trophy wife…
seems familiar somehow…
Man, I loved Brady Bunch as a kid.
Imagine the decades of royalties, repeat fees, syndication deals, spin-offs, merchandising, remakes…..
“you cowards”
Get a new thing.
I mean as funny as this would be, Schwartz, the creator of the show probably had too much love and respect for it and the people who worked on the show to allow it to be butchered in such a way.
“butchered”
Ya think?
Yeah, but he doesn’t care anymore because he’s been pushing up the daises for the last decade.If the copyright law at the time the series aired were still in place today, the show would have fallen into the public domain as early as 2020 and no one would have to care what Sherwood’s freeloading heirs think.
But what does Bob Denv-uh, Alan Hal-uh, James Gil-uh, Natalie Shaf-uh, Tina Louise think?!
Since the Howells are dead and Ginger has been at least three different people, I think it should all come down to what the guy who hosted ‘Supermarket Sweep’ thinks.
I thought…didn’t Tina Louise die recently? Maybe not.
No, she’s the last one left, Mary Anne died
This film has sort of already been made: MATANGO! Check it out and you’ll see. They’re Japanese and they turn into mushroom people before eating one another, but otherwise it fully jibes. Secure the remake rights to that, eliminate the mushroom part, and there it is – the movie Gunn wants to make. May the Schwartz be with him, but if it isn’t, that’s my roadmap.
Thank you, came here to say just that.
Yes! And the very best thing is that “Matango” predates “Gilligan.” The set of characters don’t map 100% onto Gilligan’s islanders, but it’s damned close. (IIRC, there’s no Lovey surrogate.)
Now this is why I come to this website!
Mushroom people! I bet they had a nice umani flavor, so it wasn’t as bad as regular cannibalism.
Did Galaxy Quest need Star Trek’s permission? As others mentioned it seems really easy to make this quite similar to, but not exactly Gilligan’s Island.
Galaxy Quest had a ton of respect for the show and didn’t horribly murder the main characters. So it’s a bit different
That’s not the question. Did Galaxy Quest get and/or need Star Trek’s permission?
No and/or no.
Thank you.
“Did Galaxy Quest get and/or need Star Trek’s permission?”?
Yes. If they intended for it to be a Star Trek reboot they would absolutely have had to get permission.
Do you have anything relevant to the discussion?
Galaxy Quest doesn’t use any of Trek’s trademarks, it doesn’t copy specific plots or characters, and if anyone complained about it being too close, it almost certainly would be covered as a fair use parody. Same thing for The Orville, and Space Balls/Star Wars.Then again, the main value of Gilligan’s Island isn’t in its concept, it’s the brand. That, and the idea of skinny, incompetent Gilligan proving himself to be nature’s apex predator.
Somehow a skinny Topher Grace in Predators came to mind. Shudder
♫ With Mulligan…The Captain, too ♫♪ The BillionaireAnd his bride ♩♬ The Porno Star ♬ ♩ The Teacher ♩ and ♩ Betty Lou ♩
Exactly, Soylent Green.
I finally thought of my closing line for the theme song: ♫ Together, in Mulligan’s Stew! ♫The title makes it sound like it’s Mulligan who’s murdering an eating all the other castaways, but SPOILER it’s that stupid chimpanzee he made friends with. Or the “random person ends up on the island but can’t/won’t help them escape.”
The trouble is that a movie about people cannibalizing each other after a shipwreck isn’t the same as a movie about the Gilligan’s Island characters cannibalizing each other – the incongruity with the existing characters is basically the entire hook. It’s all very, very 90s and probably 20 years past its shelf life.
Yeah, it kind of needs to be “Gilligan Island With Cannibalism.” Otherwise it’s just another show about jerks stranded on a desert island.
But then it’s just some cannibal island movie. Galaxy Quest was an homage that was satirical about its own fandom, not a reboot. Without the characters, what really is this? Just another boilerplate horror movie.
A 3-Hour Gore indeed.
See, now I want a world where Herschel Gordon Lewis got to make HIS gore version of this. The budget would be even less than an episode of the show.
And the gore effects would be obviously fake and yet still disturbing.
Just make it, and call it something else. Switch the character names. I really want to see Gunn adapting Kaufman. What a bizarre combination.
This could work with a Jacobs/Brie reunion for Ginger and Mary Ann. Otherwise I have better things to do.
Well now you made it seem like a great idea. But really that logic extends to anything with a blonde and a brunette. So like anything with two women.
I’ll admit I’m intrigued by the Charlie Kaufman script, but nothing about the idea itself is very compelling to me. A horror parody of a classic sitcom does not really sound like a fresh idea when the trend of rebooting old popular tv shows — often with radical shifts in tone — has been around for a couple of decades. This sounds like something i might come with while sharing a joint with my friends. I’m sure the combination of Gunn and Kaufman could come up with something darkly humorous and gory with underlying statement about class, identity, survival, hierarchies etc. But that can be done without the nostalgia prop. I’d rather see a fresh scenario like Squid Game. And who under the age of 40 cares about Gilligan’s Island?
If he’s not doing a proper Critters reboot I don’t want to hear about it
First, you’re gonna ruin the Banana Splits and now Gilligan’s Island. These people need to be stopped!
“Listen up, Hollywood. We know you’ve got a lot on your plate right now, but one thing is damn certain: The world needs—nay, deserves—a disgusting Gilligan’s Island project, preferably starring Sean Gunn as Gilligan, Michael Rooker as The Skipper, and/or Nathan Fillion as The Professor.”Okay you sold me on this, I want this now and badly!
Ravenous is great, as is its soundtrack by the immortal Michael Nyman
When did James Gunn turn into a hot anime version of Colonel Sanders?
mhm eleven out of eleven herbs and spices, would bang
I don’t remember voting on this screenwriting GOAT thing.
Sorry, the past, present, and future have spoken!
Sure, because the Fantasy Island horror movie was such a great idea, and Rob Zombie’s Munsters will be the tv show crossed The Hills Have Eyes or something. Leave it alone…
Did James Gunn experience a particularly nasty haunting or something? When did his hair white out?
The question is, why would you WANT to make such a thing? It’s like Nic Cage, if we keep encouraging such behavior, they’re just going to continue doing it.
For entertainment.
“We choose to make a cannibalistic Gilligan’s Island movie. We choose to make this movie, not
because it is easy, but because it is hard, because that goal will
serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills,
because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are
unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win.”
Is it just me, or is James Gunn a bizarrely petty man when it comes to some pop culture? He wrote the Scooby Doo movie in such a way because he hated Scrappy Doo, did the what if Superman but evvviiilll movie, and now this?
see, i would watch the hell out of a cannibalistic “gilligan’s island.”
This sounds like something you work out when you’re high, then in the light of day you see that it’s a terrible idea. It sounds like the sober minds prevailed.There’s only seven of them. Eat a couple, the others fight back and then if the cannibal wins, they are just starving again in a few weeks. It’s much better to farm and fish.
Because the dark Fantasy Island take worked so well, so I hear …
Are these two fellows having a twee beard contest?
Yes, and we’re all winning.
I mean to say, that Banana Splits movie a couple of years ago is essentially this.
I thought it was a cheap cash-in on the Five Nights at Freddy’s craze.
Ykw, the terms sequel, adaptation, remake, and spin-off were adequate, to the point terms and we all understood what they meant, using the term reboot as an umbrella word for everything is just confusing and unnecessary.
GHOULIGAN’S ISLAND!!!
Did somebody say… ?
This guy had a similar pitch.
If the idea is good and the writing strong, it should survive on its own unassociated with a 50+ year franchise. If not, they were hoping to suck onto the fame of the original and it is good that it died.
Nina Hartley as Luvey in the porn parody was strong casting
True fact – no one in the U.K. has ever seen Gilligan’s IslandGenuinely confusing across the board whenever it gets named dropped.As far as I can tell without any effort to look up videos it’s what happens after The Love Boat sinks?
Bruce Campbell as Thurston Howell III
If it gets made, I demand to see the Snyder cut.
This sounds like an abandoned Robot Chicken sketch that at three minutes would be judged as being too long