Mar 16 2009'MacGyver' Film Being Made From Typically Simplistic Household Items MacGyver Joke
The nearly year-old rumor is true: MacGyver is only a MacGyver joke and an A-list writer away from a global franchise!
New Line is using twine, bubble gum and a pencil to throw "MacGyver" into development as a feature film."MacGyver" was a science-oriented adventure series that ran from 1985-92 on ABC. Richard Dean Anderson, later of "Stargate: Atlantis" and "SG-1" fame, starred as an incredibly resourceful secret agent for the Phoenix Foundation who frequently would escape from dangerous situations with ingenious and lightning-quick engineering trickery.
No writer is attached, but the studio hopes to find a script that can acknowledge how the concept has staked a place into pop culture yet still makes for a serious and fun adventure movie.
"We think we're a stick of chewing gum, a paper clip and an A-list writer away from a global franchise," said New Line's Richard Brener, who will oversee with Sam Brown and Walter Hamada.
What I hate most is how this New Line guy essentially recognizes that MacGyver is a pop culture punchline with his chewing gum line, but then immediately follows it up with, "still though, we'll make a serious, successful franchise of films out of that joke, and does anyone know if Airwolf rights are still available?" Someone stop all of this.
Reader Comments
1. Doug Nelson - March 16, 2009 5:24 PM
You know they're going to cast Will Farrell and ruin it.
2. Elmo - March 16, 2009 5:28 PM
MAGRUBER! crap I wish I knew the song from the SNL thing...
3. kittkatt - March 16, 2009 5:36 PM
dudes- whatever. I have mad pink hearts for macgyver and it simply CANNOT be any worse than indiana jones and the crystal pile o crap
4. mirroredcactus - March 16, 2009 6:27 PM
It's official there is no god!!!
5. Racer X - March 16, 2009 6:42 PM
Salma and Patty CHEERS!!!
/give me some chewing gum, I wanna make a bomb
6. K lee - March 16, 2009 11:07 PM
Oh God, now Hollywood is basing movies off of TV shows I used watch with my grandma... film versions of Andy Griffith and Walker: Texas Ranger can't be far off.
7. K lee - March 16, 2009 11:08 PM
p.s. I will never hear "MacGyver" and not think of Sideshow Bob trying to blow up Selma in a hotel room.
8. Jenny - March 17, 2009 10:57 AM
Is nothing sacred?? Assclowns
9. Nick - March 19, 2009 8:27 PM
This could be the coolest thing ever if they take it seriously, but the worst thing ever if they try and parody it.
It was such a waste of a good idea to have Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson play Starsky and Hutch, if they put someone like Wil Ferrell in the role of MacGyver it will basically ruin every memory I have of old school television.
10. Tawmie - July 13, 2009 12:38 PM
Richard Dean Anderson YES PLEASE!!