Fantasy Island

Anything you desire. Everything you fear.
Fantasy Island (2020)
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Budget
$7 000 000
Revenue
$49 447 308
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Actors
Photo Michael Peña
Michael Peña
Mr. Roarke
Photo Maggie Q
Maggie Q
Gwen Olsen
Photo Lucy Hale
Lucy Hale
Melanie Cole
Photo Austin Stowell
Austin Stowell
Patrick Sullivan
Photo Jimmy O. Yang
Jimmy O. Yang
Brax Weaver
Photo Portia Doubleday
Portia Doubleday
Sloane Maddison
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Short description

A group of contest winners travel to a remote tropical resort, where the mysterious Mr. Roarke promises to make their deepest wishes come true. Each guest has something different in mind, from reliving a past mistake to seeking adventure or revenge. What begins as the fulfilment of their fantasies soon turns against them, and the island becomes a trap they must escape. The film is a horror reimagining of the 1970s television series about a magical island resort that grants its visitors' desires.

Jeff Wadlow directed and co-wrote the screenplay with Christopher Roach and Jillian Jacobs. It is the sixth of the nine features Wadlow has directed to date, arriving between Truth or Dare and The Curse of Bridge Hollow. Michael Peña plays Mr. Roarke; the cast also includes Maggie Q, Lucy Hale, Michael Rooker, Austin Stowell and Jimmy O. Yang. Jason Blum and Marc Toberoff produced alongside Wadlow, with Columbia Pictures and Blumhouse Productions behind the release.

Made for a modest budget, the film took in roughly seven times its production cost worldwide, a strong return for a release of this scale. Audiences were lukewarm toward it: it holds a rating of 4.9 on IMDb from around 64,000 votes, and 5.7 on TMDB from a much smaller pool of users. Critics were harsher, giving it an average of 3.5 from 114 reviews. The runtime is 109 minutes.

What's left behind the scenes

  • Director and screenwriter Jeff Wadlow reimagined a childhood dream of a magical island in the horror genre. The film was inspired by Drew Goddard's horror film "The Cabin in the Woods" (2011) and the HBO series "Westworld" (2016-2022).
  • Producer Jason Blum wanted Nicolas Cage to play Mr. Rourke, but he declined the offer to participate in the filming, and the role went to Michael Peña.
  • The house shown in the film is located on the islands of Fiji. The filmmakers added some elements to the house and its surroundings using computer technology – for example, a turret and a rocky hill. In 2017, the house itself and 60 hectares of land around it were put up for sale for $8.8 million.

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