{"id":641899,"date":"2025-12-19T08:50:33","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T08:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/641899\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T08:50:33","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T08:50:33","slug":"a-love-island-movie-is-in-the-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/641899\/","title":{"rendered":"A &#8220;Love Island&#8221; Movie Is In The Works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/a-love-island-movie-is-in-the-works.jpg\" data-caption=\"ITV America\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/a-love-island-movie-is-in-the-works.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"a-love-island-movie-is-in-the-works\"\/><\/a>ITV America<\/p>\n<p>Reality TV giant \u201cLove Island\u201d is potentially getting a film adaptation.<\/p>\n<p>ITV America is reportedly considering a feature film, with CEO David George revealing he has \u201chad conversations about translating the dating show to the feature space\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The series has long been a hit in the UK, but last year\u2019s sixth season was a huge success in the United States, which led to calls for expansion of the franchise.<\/p>\n<p>If it goes forward, it would be part of the company\u2019s broader strategy to make more use of its own IP.  George tells <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/12\/love-island-the-movie-itv-america-1236652007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Deadline<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWhy are we not taking Love Island and figuring out how we\u2019re going to translate that into the movie world?  There may be something going there. I can\u2019t even begin to tell you what it is, but there are those types of conversations.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Though plenty of scripted series make the jump to film, unscripted series\/reality shows that have done it are very few and far between, with the most notable example being \u201cThe Real World\u201d movie a quarter century ago.<\/p>\n<p>Either way, George says, \u201cWe are open to expanding the possibilities of what that brand is\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ITV America Reality TV giant \u201cLove Island\u201d is potentially getting a film adaptation. ITV America is reportedly considering&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":641900,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3937],"tags":[77,382,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-641899","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-tv","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/641900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}