{"id":44617,"date":"2018-10-10T21:51:02","date_gmt":"2018-10-11T01:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=44617"},"modified":"2018-10-10T21:51:29","modified_gmt":"2018-10-11T01:51:29","slug":"dave-bautista-fantasy-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2018\/10\/10\/dave-bautista-fantasy-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Dave Bautista In Talks To Join FANTASY ISLAND"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Dave-Bautista.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-44618\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Dave-Bautista.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"340\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Guardians Of The Galaxy<\/strong> co-star Dave Bautista looks to be the next addition to the cast of Blumhouse\u2019s big screen <strong>Fantasy Island<\/strong> adaptation. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/heat-vision\/dave-bautista-talks-join-fantasy-island-movie-1150645\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hollywood Reporter<\/a> is stating that Bautista is in talks to join the project.<\/p>\n<p>Bautista would join Michael Pena, who is stepping into the role of the mysterious Mr. Roarke made famous in the 1970s television series. Malcom McDowell also played the character in a short-lived 1990s revival. On the show, visitors would come to the island resort with the expectation that a fantasy of theirs would be fulfilled. Mr. Roarke would grant them their desires, but often unexpected consequences would follow.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Reporter \u2013<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The feature project is described as being a tonal mix of <em>Westworld<\/em> meets <strong>Cabin in The Woods<\/strong>, centering on a group of contest winners who arrive at an island hotel to live out their dreams, only to find themselves trapped in nightmare scenarios&#8230; Bautista will play a former guest who is still on the island against his will and who wants to expose Roarke and the island\u2019s magical secrets.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The film will be directed by <strong>Truth Or Dare<\/strong> helmer Jeff Ladlow and is being written by his <strong>Truth Or Dare<\/strong> scripters Chris Roach and Jillian Jacobs.<\/p>\n<p>A key component of the show\u2019s success was the rotating series of guest stars who would arrive each week on the island. It was a conceit similar to one used on the popular series <em>The Love Boat<\/em>, though <em>Fantasy Island<\/em> was tonally a bit darker than the frothy, romantic comedy of that other series. With Blumhouse, noted for their quality horror output, producing this new version of <strong>Fantasy Island<\/strong> and based on the description above, it seems that the film will lean hard into the original show\u2019s darker edge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">The GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY will find himself a reluctant guest of Mr. Roarke&#8217;s magical island.<\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2018\/10\/10\/dave-bautista-fantasy-island\/\" title=\"Dave Bautista In Talks To Join FANTASY ISLAND\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[5986,9958],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-44617","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-dave-bautista","8":"tag-fantasy-island"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44617"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=44617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}