{"id":420,"date":"2026-03-18T13:47:47","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T13:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/2026\/03\/18\/gilligans-island-creators-son-shares-why-movie-still-hasnt-been-made-40-years-later\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T13:47:47","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T13:47:47","slug":"gilligans-island-creators-son-shares-why-movie-still-hasnt-been-made-40-years-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/2026\/03\/18\/gilligans-island-creators-son-shares-why-movie-still-hasnt-been-made-40-years-later\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cGilligan&#8217;s Island\u201d Creator&#8217;s Son Shares Why Movie Still Hasn&#8217;t Been Made 40 Years Later"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Gilligan\u2019s Island&#8217; premiered in 1964, following castaways who found themselves on a deserted island after taking what was meant to be a three-hour tour<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/people.com\/thmb\/yYTybMpwrWhZ8x9kK5qG0Kbqi-I=\/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc():format(jpeg)\/Gilligans-Island-WATN-011025-f6b01ba87861405d82c3ee25245536a6.jpg\" alt=\"Gilligan's IslandCredit: CBS Photo Archive\/Getty\" title=\"Portrait of the cast of 'Gilligan's Island,' 1964\" \/><figcaption><i>Gilligan&#8217;s Island<br \/>Credit: CBS Photo Archive\/Getty<\/i><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3>NEED TO KNOW<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The son of <em>Gilligan&#8217;s Island<\/em> creator Sherwood Schwartz says a film version of the classic sitcom has been talked about since 1998 \u2014 but remains mired in logistics<\/li>\n<li>Per Schwartz, part of the issue in making a film lies in how many people and companies own the property<\/li>\n<li>The acquisition of Warner Brothers \u2014 which remains pending \u2014 is another issue, he notes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The son of <em>Gilligan&#8217;s Island <\/em>creator Sherwood Schwartz is sharing why a film version of the iconic television show still hasn&#8217;t been made, 40 years after attempts to make a movie first began.<\/p>\n<p>Lloyd J. Schwartz says in a new interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.womansworld.com\/entertainment\/classic-tv\/lost-gilligans-island-movie-why-its-never-been-made\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"externalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\"><em>Woman&#8217;s World,<\/em><\/a><em> <\/em>\u201cWe\u2019ve been trying to do the movie while fighting all kinds of studios and all kinds of stuff since 1987.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDifferent ideas get pitched, but nothing has had any traction,&#8221; Schwartz said, adding that part of the issue lies in the fact that ownership of the property is split between the Schwartz family, the heirs of comedian Phil Silvers (whose production company originally partnered on the series) and Warner Bros., which is currently mired in a pending (and controversial) $111 billion acquisition by Paramount.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Never miss a story \u2014 sign up for PEOPLE&#8217;s<\/strong><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/people-news-daily-newsletter-sign-up-8692701\" data-type=\"\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>free daily newsletter<\/strong><\/a><strong> to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer\u200b\u200b, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/people.com\/thmb\/PmAIST8mXfAjxEEqyJ9mKAnrn9k=\/fit-in\/1280x960\/Lloyd-J-Schwartz-2022-031226-36919b83364c42a7a7ae82279a7f230a.jpg\" alt=\"Lloyd SchwartzCredit: David Livingston\/Getty\" title=\"Lloyd J. Schwartz attends the 25th anniversary of \" \/><figcaption><i>Lloyd Schwartz<br \/>Credit: David Livingston\/Getty<\/i><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;At the moment, I think we\u2019re mired in who\u2019s going to run Warner Brothers after the Paramount acquisition of the company, because <em>Gilligan<\/em> went from United Artists to MGM to Ted Turner to Turner Pictures, which merged with Warner Brothers,&#8221; Schwartz told <em>Woman&#8217;s World<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Gilligan\u2019s Island<\/em> premiered in 1964, following seven castaways who found themselves on a deserted island after boarding the <em>S.S. Minnow <\/em>for what was meant to be a three-hour tour. Each episode detailed the crew and passenger&#8217;s many attempts to leave the island, only to be thwarted by first mate Gilligan\u2019s near-endless mishaps.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The show ran for three seasons from 1964 to 1967, but saw its popularity skyrocket when it began running in syndication, often after school in the &#8217;70s and &#8217;80s. Following fan demand, the story continued with two animated spinoffs and a series of made-for-TV movies.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/people-puzzler-8620185\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\"><strong>The PEOPLE Puzzler crossword is here! How quickly can you solve it? Play now!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One animated show, <em>The New Adventures of Gilligan<\/em>, premiered in 1974 and featured most of the original cast reprising their voice roles. Movies <em>Rescue from Gilligan&#8217;s Island <\/em>(1978), <em>The Castaways on Gilligan&#8217;s Island <\/em>(1979) and <em>The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan&#8217;s Island <\/em>(1981) were soon to follow. Another animated show, <em>Gilligan\u2019s Planet, <\/em>premiered in 1982 and ran for one season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As Schwartz tells <em>Woman&#8217;s World<\/em>, he&#8217;s even writing a manuscript about the attempts of making a <em>Gilligan&#8217;s Island<\/em> film: \u201cMy book on the making of the <em>Gilligan<\/em> movie\u2014of which there is none\u2014is on page 610. It\u2019s called <em>Invitation to a Shipwreck<\/em>. When I started writing it, it was, \u2018Now we\u2019re going to make this movie and I\u2019m taking you with me.\u2019 I\u2019d go into meetings and say, \u2018This is what\u2019s going to happen.\u2019 And I was <em>always<\/em> wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Schwartz adds that there are two possible outcomes to the saga: \u201cOne is that I now believe there will never be a movie and the other is that we\u2019re getting ready to do a movie.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Gilligan\u2019s Island&#8217; premiered in 1964, following castaways who found themselves on a deserted island after taking what was meant to be a three-hour tour Gilligan&#8217;s IslandCredit: CBS Photo Archive\/Getty NEED TO KNOW The son of Gilligan&#8217;s Island creator Sherwood Schwartz says a film version of the classic sitcom has been talked about since 1998 \u2014 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everything-else"],"wpmagazine_modules_lite_featured_media_urls":{"thumbnail":"","cvmm-medium":"","cvmm-medium-plus":"","cvmm-portrait":"","cvmm-medium-square":"","cvmm-large":"","cvmm-small":"","full":""},"categories_names":{"1":{"name":"Everything Else","link":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/category\/everything-else\/"}},"tags_names":[],"comments_number":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}