Warner Bros. and Atlas Entertainment are bringing back the seven castaways of Gilligan’s Island, the highly popular and successfully syndicated show that originally aired on CBS for three seasons between 1964 and 1967.  For you younglings, Variety does a fine job at summizing the premise of the show: “[It] centered on the wacky misadventures of seven castaways — two crew members, a millionaire couple, a professor, a movie star and a girl-next-door type — on an uncharted and uninhabited island in the Pacific.”  Details about the movie’s plot are undisclosed since it has yet to be written.  Sherwood Schwartz (original show producer and composer for “The Ballad of Gilligan’s Isle,” the iconic theme song) and son Lloyd Schwartz are the executive producers with Charles Roven (The Dark Knight, Scooby Doo, The International) and Richard Suckle (Scooby Doo, The International) as producers.  Brad Copeland (Wild Hogs) will pen the script.  Production could start as early as next year, but that all depends on when they find a director and when the script is finalized.  Roven on the remake: “The characters are so good.  We think it’s going to be a great story to transport these cultural icons to the modern day.”

Sherwood Schwartz said he envisions Michael Cera cast as the iconic lead character Gilligan.  Do you think that’s a good choice?  What about the others…

The ship set ground on the shore of this uncharted desert isle, with Gilligan, The Skipper too, the millionaire and his wife, the movie star, the professor and Mary Ann, Here on Gilligans Isle.

[Via Variety]