Nerdage and Staticblog team up to cast “Gilligan’s Island”

It cannot possibly be dumber than the original series: Warner Bros. has optioned “Gilligan’s Island” for a 2011 release. While there is no firm cast set in place, we at StaticBlog and Nerdage are taking it upon ourselves to select appropriate players for this thing before professionals have a chance to screw it up. And while it’s taken all we can muster to keep from simply filling these roles with the cast of “Lost” (Terry O’Quinn as a monomaniacal Skipper, Michael Emerson as a psychotic Gilligan, Evangeline Lilly in sequins and a feather boa — wait, we’re doing it anyway) here are our ideas. Warners, please make the checks out to Price and Lang.

GILLIGAN

Nerdage: Steve Carell. He does goofy incompetence with the best of ‘em.

StaticBlog: I’m going to go with Jay Baruchel, because he’s proved he can play frenetic goofballs time and again and looks like he could take a coconut to the head.

THE SKIPPER TOO

Nerdage: A lovable captain who nonetheless is terrible at piloting a boat? How about Andy Richter? He may have some time on his hands.