# Any Talk of a Gilligan's Island Movie? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 27, 2009, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-talk-of-a-gilligans-island-movie/491027 "2009-03-27T20:42:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2009, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-talk-of-a-gilligans-island-movie/491027/21 "2009-03-27T23:59:11Z")
I maintain that Topher Grace should be Gilligan. ---
**Author:** ![JSexton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@JSexton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JSexton)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2009, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-talk-of-a-gilligans-island-movie/491027/22 "2009-03-28T03:02:23Z")
The premise doesn’t really lend itself to a movie, though. The whole point is that they’re marooned forever because Gilligan keeps ruining their chances. Without the repetition of his failure, what’s the point of seeing them try and fail for an hour and a half, and then never seeing them again? Unless your proposed script involves them getting off the island, in which case you’re not remaking Gilligan’s Island. I don’t know what you’re making then, other than a bland castaway movie. It’d be as dumb as making a Sex and the City movie where they finally find true love. ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2009, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-talk-of-a-gilligans-island-movie/491027/23 "2009-03-28T04:18:05Z")
Tom Hanks washes up one day. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2009, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-talk-of-a-gilligans-island-movie/491027/24 "2009-03-28T04:26:19Z")
> [@Walloon](#): > > Tom Hanks washes up one day. And they eat him. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2009, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-talk-of-a-gilligans-island-movie/491027/25 "2009-03-28T06:30:03Z")
Then a polar bear shows up. ---
**Author:** ![TWDuke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e495f1/32.png) [@TWDuke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TWDuke)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2009, 9:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-talk-of-a-gilligans-island-movie/491027/26 "2009-03-28T09:57:25Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > I suppose I’m showing my age, but I have absolutely no clue who any of these people are. I haven’t even heard the names before. 😕 Justin Long has several movie and TV roles to his credit but is best known (in the U.S., anyway) as “Mac” in a long-running series of ads for the Apple Macintosh. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2009, 10:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-talk-of-a-gilligans-island-movie/491027/27 "2009-03-28T10:40:56Z")
> [@JSexton](#): > > It’d be as dumb as making a Sex and the City movie where they finally find true love. But they did that, too. ---
**Author:** ![Marlitharn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/779978/32.png) [@Marlitharn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marlitharn)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2009, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-talk-of-a-gilligans-island-movie/491027/28 "2009-03-28T12:00:05Z")
> [@photopat](#): > > I think somebody could go very far with a movie in which a small ship is wrecked on an island and the passengers find the corpses of 6 people, 3 men and 3 women, several derelict huts and a number of bamboo/coconut contraptions along with a diary describing their time on the island and ultimate grisly end at the hands of the 7th, utterly insane member of their party, **GILLIGAN**. > > And from the jungle, somebody is watching… I would totally watch that. “Gilligan’s Island of Terror…IN 3-D!” ---
**Author:** ![flano1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f14d63/32.png) [@flano1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flano1)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2009, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-talk-of-a-gilligans-island-movie/491027/29 "2009-03-28T12:06:12Z")
oh dear god. ---
**Author:** ![Morelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@Morelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morelin)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2009, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-talk-of-a-gilligans-island-movie/491027/30 "2009-03-28T13:11:27Z")
There was a made-for-TV movie where Gilligan and crew DID finally leave the island and return home. I don’t remember what it was called, though. ---
**Author:** ![JSexton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@JSexton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JSexton)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2009, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-talk-of-a-gilligans-island-movie/491027/31 "2009-03-28T14:44:04Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > But they did that, too. Right, yeah. That’s the joke. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2009, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-talk-of-a-gilligans-island-movie/491027/32 "2009-03-28T14:48:45Z")
> [@JSexton](#): > > Right, yeah. That’s the joke. :smack: D’oh. Sorry, carry on. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2009, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-talk-of-a-gilligans-island-movie/491027/33 "2009-03-28T16:36:12Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > [A deal has been signed by Sherwood Schwartz](http://www.slashfilm.com/2008/12/24/gilligans-island-creator-wants-michael-cera-to-play-gilligan-in-movie-adaptation/). It’s confirmed, then. There is a god, and he hates us. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2009, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-talk-of-a-gilligans-island-movie/491027/34 "2009-03-29T03:53:27Z")
Well, as long as Schwarz doesn’t start some kind of initiative where he distributes handguns to all the morons in the country, with instructions to force us to watch it, we might be okay. I mean, the mere existence of the film will still be wrong\*, but maybe if we’re lucky, we can avoid getting any on us. \*And I use the word “wrong” in the hyperbolically Lovecraftian sense, including unpronounceable names, unholy geometries, and colors that induce madness. ---
**Author:** ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2009, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-talk-of-a-gilligans-island-movie/491027/35 "2009-03-29T15:33:21Z")
Update to my idea. The six _skeletons_ are dressed in different clothes, three male and three female. The diary trails off so the identity of the insane killer is just a letter G. Ultimately the killer is revealed to be Ginger Grant, dressed up like Gilligan, her first victim, who she thinks is talking to her. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-talk-of-a-gilligans-island-movie/491027.md?page=1)