A movie based on the 1970s TV series Fantasy Island is on the cards and will be brought to the screen by Jeff Wadlow (Kick-Ass 2). According to Deadline, Blumhouse will produce the movie, re-teaming with Wadlow following his work on the $100 million-grossing Truth Or Dare, a genre piece that cost just $5 million to make.
Fantasy Island ran for 7 seasons from 1977 to 1984 and starred Ricardo Montalbán as the mysterious Mr. Roarke who grants the fantasies of visitors to the titular island for a price.
Related: Truth Or Dare review
Here’s the full premise.
At a luxurious but remote tropical island resort, the enigmatic Mr Roarke somehow makes the secret dreams of his well-heeled guests come true, although twists of fate occasionally turn those dreams into nightmares. He is assisted by Tattoo, a little person who could be trusted to sing out, “Da plane! Da plane!” as each group of guests arrived. In the final season of the series, Roarke is joined by Lawrence, a dapper Englishman. As a sort of anthology series, the show featured new guest stars each week, and many big names of the era made a trip onto “Fantasy Island.”
Truth or Dare co-scribes Chris Roach and Jillian Jacobs are penning the screenplay for the new version of Fantasy Island. Jason Blum will produce.
