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'Fantasy Island': Roselyn Sanchez to Star in Fox Reboot

Fantasy Island - Roselyn Sanchez Joins Cast

The Grand Hotel actress is playing a descendant of Mr. Roarke.

Roselyn Sanchez to Star in ‘Fantasy Island’ Reboot at Fox “Devious Maids” star will play a descendant of Ricardo Montalbán’s character from the original series Reid Nakamura | April 27, 2021 @ 1:30 PM Leon Bennett/Getty Images “Devious Maids” and “Grand Hotel” alum Roselyn Sanchez has been tapped to star in Fox’s reboot of “Fantasy Island,” TheWrap has learned. The actress will star as Elena Roarke, a descendant of Ricardo Montalbán’s character Mr. Roarke from the or...

Foxs Fantasy Island Reboot Casts Its First Stars If Loving You Is Barnes will play Ruby Okoro, described as a warm and wise young woman with an old soul who arrives on Fantasy Island with a terminal illness but is given a new lease on life by Roarke and the island. Rodriquez is set to play Javiar, the rugged, handsome, and charismatic head of transport on Fantasy Island. The island provides Javier with refuge, but as is the case with everything else the island offers that may come at the price...

Fantasy Island The Bold and the Beautiful star Kiara Barnes has been cast as a series regular and John Gabriel Rodriquez (If Loving You Is Wrong) as heavily recurring in Fantasy Island, Fox’s contemporary version of the classic drama series that has a straight-to-series order to air this summer. The project hails from writer-producers Liz Craft and Sarah Fain as well as Sony Pictures TV and its Gemstone Studios label, which co-produce with Fox Entertainment...

January 31st, 2021 [AdSense-A] Gemstone Studios, the boutique production unit of Sony Pictures Television (SPT), in partnership with Ideas United, an Atlanta-based creative agency, today announced the winner of its first Rising Storytellers Search, a competition seeking emerging voices and female-centric stories. Jenny Schuster won with her pitch for Dirty Thirties, a darkly personal dramedy about a millennial woman looking for love while fighting breast cancer. As the winner of the Rising St...

17k Views If only to help us get the sour taste of the movie reboot out of our mouths, a more faithful, small-screen reboot of “Fantasy Island” is in the works. As opposed to the recent Blumhouse ‘horror’ film – in more ways than one – the new “Fantasy Island” will be more of a dramedy, ”a modern semi-anthology series that delves into the “what if” questions, both big and small, that keep us awake at night. Each episode will tell stories about people who walk in with a de...

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Fantasy Island Update Scores Straight-to-Series Order at Fox The new version of the 1970s-80s series comes from writers and executive producers Liz Craft and Sarah Fain. Fox is taking a trip to Fantasy Island. The network has given a straight-to-series order to an updated version of the series, which first aired on ABC from 1978 to 1984. Its slated to air in summer 2021. The new spin on the show comes from writers and showrunners Liz Craft and Sarah Fain (ABCs The Fix, The Shield, Angel). Son...