Blue Lagoon: The Awakening

Blue Lagoon: The Awakening is a 2012 American romantic drama television film that premiered on Lifetime on June 16, 2012. Indiana Evans and Brenton Thwaites star in the film, which is based on the 1908 novel The Blue Lagoon and its previous film adaptations.

Blue Lagoon: The Awakening
DVD cover
Genre
  • Romance
  • Teen
Based onThe Blue Lagoon
by H. Devere Stacpoole
Teleplay by
  • Matt Heller
  • Heather Rutman
Directed by
  • Mikael Salomon
  • Jake Newsome
Starring
Music byTree Adams
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
Production
Executive producers
Producers
  • Kyle Clark
  • Nellie Nugiel
Cinematography
EditorJosh Beal
Running time89 minutes
Production companies
  • PeaceOut Productions
  • Silver Screen Pictures
  • Sony Pictures Television
  • Storyline Entertainment
Original release
NetworkLifetime
ReleaseJune 16, 2012 (2012-06-16)

It was a major departure from previous Blue Lagoon films in several respects. The setting is contemporary, whereas the previous films were all set in the Victorian era; the lead characters were raised in normal society and are marooned as teenagers, rather than growing up on the island; the island the main characters are stranded on is in the Caribbean, whereas the previous films took place in the Pacific Ocean; and roughly equal time is devoted to the uncivilized world of the island and the human society the characters were born into. Christopher Atkins, the male lead in the 1980 film The Blue Lagoon, also appears in the film.

The film was co-produced by Sony Pictures Television, whose sister company Columbia Pictures financed the 1980 film adaptation and its 1991 sequel, but not the 1949 film version, whose rights are controlled by ITV Studios (successor-in-interest to the Rank Organisation's General Film Distributors, the company that released that version).

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