Michael Peña to play Mr. Roarke in a Fantasy Island movie
The old Fantasy Island TV show seems to be enjoying a weird resurgence these days, with Peter Dinklage set to play Hervé Villechaize in an HBO movie about the iconic Fantasy Island sidekick (and specifically about a particularly dramatic interview he gave shortly before his death), and now Michael Peña is set to star as Mr. Roarke in a Fantasy Island movie from Sony and Blumhouse. The movie will be directed by Blumhouse’s Truth Or Dare’s Jeff Wadlow, which is a worrying sign (as Truth Or Dare was pretty bad), but it also suggests that Sony might be planning to take this in a more directly horror-themed direction. The original show, which was about an island where people could experience their fantasies, touched on some dark stuff, but making it a more literal “be careful what you wish for” thing seems like an interesting direction.