Actually, they already ripped off Gilligan for a TV show: the horrible Dusty’s Trail, such a rip-off that the producers could have been sued for plagiarism, if they didn’t happen to be self-plagiarizing. Starring Bob Denver as Dusty, and other people as the exact equivalent of all the characters on the Island.
Oddly enough, I think Hogan’s Heroes would make a good movie- IF they played it straight as an adventure movie with no attempt at comedy. Think of it: the Allies greatest and most secret intellgence asset- a spy/saboteur cell in the heart of Germany, operating out of a P.O.W. camp that the inmates (all volunteers) secretly have complete control of!
Starring the Olsen twins, no doubt…
Davey and Goliath: The Movie.
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Didn’t they already have a couple of those? I remember watching “Escape From Gilligan’s Island” as a kid.
They’ve already made it; it’s called Summer of Sam. (Well, it’s not exactly the same perhaps, but it is about a religious guy who can hear a dog when nobody else can.)
Here’s one that very few people will get if they didn’t grow up in the south in the 60s or 70s:
Jot the Movie- just because you’re blatant proselytization doesn’t mean you have to have quality or clever scripts.
There were three made-for-TV movie sequels to the series: *Rescue from Gilligan’s Island * (the castaways escape, then end up marooned on the island again), The Castaways on Gilligan’s Island (they surrender to fate and stay on the island, setting up a tourist resort) and The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan’s Island (which I trust is self-explanatory).
Well there’s a memory that I’d completely supressed. All dredged up and exposed to light, thankyewverymuch.
One I’m surprised they haven’t actually done – Fantasy Island. Or Love Boat, for that matter.
Well, they’ve done remakes of these series (new series). Malcom McDowell played Mr. Roarke, and the late Robert Urich played the Captain (Captain Stuvik?).
I actually kind of liked the new Fantasy Island, but never saw the new Love Boat.
The Ed Sullivan Show - The Movie
If they’d done this, DC comics would have gone from “unable to make a good movie lately” to “actively trying to destroy itself.”
I’m just glad that they aren’t making any movies out of the works of Sid and Marty Krofft. (No link provided…we don’t need any reminders.)
Or worse…Gumby: The Motion Picture.
Man from Atlantis - He can stay out for eight hours now!
Simon & Simon - They’re openly gay this time!
Hans and Frans - Adventures in the Pectoral Zone
Little Crack House on the Prairies
Gentle Ben - The Revenge!
The Waltons - Escape from Walton’s Mountain
Well, My mother the Car was my first thought, but how about…
Colonel Bleep?
AND…
Amos and Andy?
BJ & the Bear: The Movie.
Movie tag line: Don’t even think about touchin’ my monkey.
Trading Spaces… to enhance the novelity crap they are throwing into stores as we speak… need I say more?
(and I know it is not old, but it is old enough, considering it has run its course more than one time…)
"The Galloping Gourmet 2004"
Magnum P.I. and I read in Entertainment Weekly not all that long ago that a movie version is planned.
The scary thing is that a number of ideas that went plop for a serial story format could be made to work as a single story form, such as a movie. As an example: “My Mother, The Car” bombed as one of the worst TV shows of all time. However, it could be possible to make a movie about a woman who suddenly died being given a chance to try to straighten up her messed up progeny before passing on into the light. It wouldn’t be a remake, mind you, but a different interpretation of the same idea.
Frankly, I don’t think they could do a remake of F-Troop in this day and age. Not that I’d watch it if they did make it.
Tom Selleck has been talking for several years about wanting to tie up loose ends.