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Friday, September 30, 2005

A Three Hour Turkey
Oh, the humanity. Ain't It Cool report the latest bit of Hollywood idiocy: a remake of Gilligan's Island:
During Deuce Bigalow 2 promotions, the funniest man on the planet said that there's talk of a GILLIGAN'S ISLAND film. Apparently Adam Sandler's going to be Gilligan and Brian Dennehey's going to be approached for the Skipper. Australian actor Michael Caton (THE CASTLE and, um, STRANGE BEDFELLOWS) is up for the millionaire, and former Miss Universe Jennifer Hawkins (who was up for a role in CLICK before it went to Sophie Monk... is there anything to the fact that Caton, Hawkins and Monk all either work or worked for Channel Seven?). Presumably Schneider will be playing the millionaire's wife.
Sheesh. This is a classic example of a movie that is made simply because someone couldn't resist a bit of stunt casting. (Although, yes, I do know that there is a huge gulf between something being reported on Ain't It Cool and actually being made). The only reason anyone would contemplate something like this, surely, is that the there is something so undeniably right about Dennehy as the Skipper. But perfect casting is never a reason to make a movie - and a screening of the original TV show should be all the encouragement anyone needs not to make one.

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Posted by Stephen Rowley @ 30.9.05

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