FANTASY ISLAND Reboot In the Works at ABC

Deadline reports that a reboot of the 1970's campy drama series FANTASY ISLAND will join the recently announced remake of another Aaron Spelling and Leonard Goldberg collaboration, HART TO HART. The newest project will head to ABC.

Sheldon Turner will pen the new version of FANTASY ISLAND. In the revival, 'Fantasy Island' is now the name of a company, rather than an island, which "designs and executes fantasies for clients." In addition, Mr. Roarke, who was portrayed by Ricardo Montalban and Malcolm McDowell in the two previous incarnations, will now be played by a woman.

The new Fantasy Island centers on "a brilliant, dynamic and sexy woman who runs a San Francisco-based company that provides clients with his or her most intimate, dark or outlandish fantasy. Like the original series, each episode is expected to chronicle two fantasies, with an overarching serialized arc involving Roarke and her personal life."

The original Fantasy Island, created by Gene Levitt and executive produced by Aaron Spelling and Leonard Goldberg, aired on ABC from 1977-84.

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