With all the reboots out there right now, I vote YES on this one! If you’re going to do a damn reboot, how about spicing it up a bit with some GORE.
James Gunn, writer and director of “Guardians of the Galaxy” wants to make a “Gilligan’s Island” movie, but with a dark twist: In his version, the castaways get desperate and hungry, and start killing and eating each other.
The idea originally came from screenwriter Charlie Kaufman, who wrote “Adaptation”, “Being John Malkovich”, and “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind”.
Gunn says Kaufman pitched this idea in the ’90s, and Warner Brothers wanted to do it. But “Gilligan’s Island” creator Sherwood Schwartz said oh HELL NAH, brah.
After Gunn hit it big with “Guardians”, he went to Warner Brothers and Kaufman to try to resurrect the movie. Schwartz was dead by this time, but his ESTATE nixed it.
But James Gunn says that if the Schwartz estate ever changes its mind, he’s ready to go. YES, PLEASE?!!
So who would go first? Gilligan as the weakest, or Skipper as the meatiest? You KNOW it’s gotta be one of those two.
A true story: In the late 90’s screenwriting GOAT Charlie Kaufman pitched a movie version of Gilligan’s Island where the islanders, starving & desperate, started killing & eating each other. Warner Bros wanted to do it – but Sherwood Schwartz, the creator, said no way.
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