Wednesday, December 18, 2013

HELLO, MY NAME IS ELDER CUNNINGHAM, AND I WOULD LIKE TO SHARE WITH YOU THIS MOST AMAZING TALE OF A FATEFUL TRIP, THAT STARTED FROM THIS TROPIC PORT ABOARD THIS TINY SHIP:  Josh Gad to star, co-write a big screen adaptation of Gilligan's Island. NPH as the Professor, Anne Hathaway as Mary Ann?

12 comments:

  1. Personally, I really like Josh Gad. Heck, I even (mostly) liked 1600 Penn, and think his performance in Jobs this year (as Wozniak) is one of those really good performances in a bad movie. That said, studios seem to be far more convinced he's the next Jonah Hill than the evidence suggests--with the exception of Frozen, all his movies/TV shows have been pretty big flops.

    (Also, fascinatingly--the next Broadway Elder Cunningham is the guy who played Benji in Pitch Perfect, which is a very different physical take on the role than Gad.)

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  2. Adam B.10:54 AM

    Next Jonah Hill, or next Jack Black?

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  3. Tosy and Cosh11:44 AM

    So do we need a thin Skipper?

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  4. Adam B.12:13 PM

    Skipper: Tim Robbins
    Thurston Howell III: John Slattery,
    Ginger: Christina Hendricks
    Mary Ann: Elisabeth Moss

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  5. And the Harlem Globetrotters as themselves!

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  6. Adam B.12:18 PM

    I was going to Mad Men the whole thing, but it didn't quite work. Now, Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul as the Skipper and Gilligan ....

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  7. Tosy and Cosh12:36 PM

    Is Morse too old for the Skipper?

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  8. Adam B.12:58 PM

    Morse as Howell, Slattery as Skipper?

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  9. Two suggestions for each role, mix and match however you want.


    Skipper: John Goodman, Samuel L. Jackson
    Professor: Brad Pitt, Denise Richards (because she's already played a nuclear physicist, so she's totally believable)

    Mary Ann: Beyonce, Anna Kendrick
    Ginger: Elizabeth Banks, Gina Torres
    Thurston Howell III: Samuel L. Jackson, Bill Murray
    Mrs. Howell: Helen Mirren, Oprah

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  10. Eric J.3:30 PM

    In which case we should get Google/Boston Dynamics to build the robots.

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  11. Heather K11:34 PM

    Benji was the Chicago Mormon Cunningham that my husband and I saw and we loved him. He's so much more naturally, deeply weird. It's so charming and so sweet and so innocent. Had has a thin layer of smarm which is not necessarily bad but I liked this take more.

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  12. My brain just broke because the idea of Anne Hathaway as Marianne is too awesome for me to handle right now.

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