When “Gilligan’s Island” left the air in 1967He had just reached the necessary reference to put the show in syndication. The series of Sherwood Schwartz was popular during its three -season race, but it remained solidly in the American conscience thanks to endless reruns. Several generations have grown up watching the show, and it always seemed to draw large figures. The interest has remained high enough for NBC in 1978, NBC produced a follow -up telefilm entitled “Rescue de l’île de Gilligan”. The film saw the seven blocked shipwrecks finally returned to the continent, only to note that life was not so rosy. In an ironic turn, an anterior storm deposited them on the same island exactly at the end.

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This film was successful enough to justify a 1979 series entitled “The Castays on Gilligan’s Island”, which was actually a stolen door pilot. The film also saw the shipwrecked saving themselves but arriving at the conclusion that, like Sisyphe, they wanted to do their rock “their thing”. Consequently, the shipwrecked are deliberately returned to the island and, with the funding of Mr. Howell (Jim Backus), built a well -opposed seaside resort. The third and Final “Gilligan’s Island” film, “The Harlem Globetrotters of 1981 on the island of Gilligan”, “ was rather known for its stupidity. In this document, the titular basketball team crashed into the aforementioned complex and was forced by a looting of evil business to play basketball against their team of robots (!).

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You would think that after a few years, we could restart “Gilligan’s Island” on television or on the big screen. TV movies were not great, but the reruns were still popular. In addition, in the late 1980s, nostalgia for the 60s rose high, so a film has the impression that it would be logical. Speak with Woman’s worldSherwood Schwartz’s son Lloyd J. Schwartz, said the long saga of the reason why there has not yet been another film “Gilligan’s Island”. More than anything, he was the subject of surveys to boast the studio heads that do not get “the property.

Lloyd J. Schwartz revealed that he and his father (who died in 2011) spent years trying to restart “Gilligan’s Island” in the form of a cinema, starting in 1988. I personally remember having heard of rumors that Jamie Kennedy was once online to play Gilligan in a film in the 1990s. In 2008, Sherwood Schwartz Make a film “Gilligan’s Island” with Michael Cera as Gilligan and Beyoncé like Ginger. “Over the years, so many people have come and left,” said Lloyd in the world interview of his wife. “The executives have made promises, key characters have died … It’s a long, sad and often ridiculous story.”

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He then identified the reason why none of the planned films never went nowhere: studio leaders. As he said:

“From time to time, you will see the big titles on a ‘Gilligan Island ‘ The film being in development, but nothing ever comes from it. The biggest problem? When we meet studios, they act as if they knew better than us. Instead of trusting people who really created And to understand The show, they dictate how that should to be done. And, inevitably, they fail. “”

Sherwood Schwartz made the part of the Lion of work on “Gilligan’s Island”, but Lloyd J. Schwartz was there at every stage and even collaborated with his father on various “Brady Bunch” projects. He would know Sherwood’s work better than anyone. And yet, common history persists: leaders want to be the creatives.

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Lloyd J. Schwartz added that the most positive experience he had with a leader occurred when he and his father worked to “save from Gilligan Island”. The chief of NBC at the time, Deanne Barkley, did not offer his opinion and, by the memory of Lloyd J. Schwartz, simply said: “You know something? I do not receive” the island of Gilligan “. I do not know why it works. And they did it, without interference.” It’s like that should Being done, “he said.

Indeed.