Sony TV is rebooting the 1970s drama Fantasy Isalnd for ABC, Deadline reports. ABC tried reviving the series in 1998 starring Malcolm McDowell as a black-suited and often sharp-tongued version of Ricardo Montalban’s Mr. Roarke. In the revival, “Fantasy Island” is now the name of a company, rather than an island, which “designs and executes fantasies for clients”.
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Together Tattoo and Roarke brought vacationers’ fantasies to life, playing host each week to a changing cast of Hollywood heavyweights, as everyone from Don Ameche to Don Knotts eventually set foot on Fantasy island.
If it goes, the series will follow a brilliant, dynamic and sexy woman who runs a San Francisco-based company that provides clients with their most intimate, dark or outlandish fantasy.
Sheldon Turner (Up in the Air, X-Men: First Class) will pen the script and executive produce alongside Jennifer Klein via their Sony Pictures Television-based Vendetta Productions banner. Josh Berman (Drop Dead Diva) will serve as a supervising EP. Up to date: 17:18 EST, 12 October. 2015 Seventies TV collection Fantasy Island is about to return to TV screens. The show, which was created by Gene Levitt, ran for seven seasons alongside The Love Boat.
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In addition to Fantasy Island and Hart To Hart, other action-adventure TV series getting reboots this season include A-Team and Xena. Berman is working on an In the Line of Fire reboot at NBC as well as re-imaginings of Mark Twain’s Tom Sawyer Huckleberry Finn at CBS.
