Marking the third time the network has taken on the island drama.
ABC is going back to Fantasy Island.
The network is reteaming with Sony Pictures Television for a potential third TV series based on the drama that ran from 1977-84, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
The new take, which has received a script plus penalty order from the network, will change things up by replacing original star Ricardo Montalban's Mr. Roarke with a woman. The potential series will follow a brilliant, dynamic and sexy woman who runs a San Francisco-based company that provides clients with his/her 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. Studio-based Josh Berman (Drop Dead Diva, The Mob Doctor) will serve as a supervising EP.
ABC is going back to Fantasy Island.
The network is reteaming with Sony Pictures Television for a potential third TV series based on the drama that ran from 1977-84, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
The new take, which has received a script plus penalty order from the network, will change things up by replacing original star Ricardo Montalban's Mr. Roarke with a woman. The potential series will follow a brilliant, dynamic and sexy woman who runs a San Francisco-based company that provides clients with his/her 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. Studio-based Josh Berman (Drop Dead Diva, The Mob Doctor) will serve as a supervising EP.
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