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MacGyver is Coming to the Big Screen!

March 16, 2009

The Hollywood Reporter says that New Line Cinema is bringing MacGyver to the big screen.

Raffaella De Laurentiis, daughter of Dino De Laurentiis, is producing through her Raffaella Productions along with Martha De Laurentiis and series creator Lee Zlotoff. Dino De Laurentiis is executive producing.

"MacGyver" ran on ABC from 1985-92. 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.

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COMMENTS (46)

Posted by:

CodyKent1226

March 16, 2009

FIRST!

lets hope we can get Will Forte to star!!!

Posted by:

Heath

March 16, 2009

I loved the TV series, but I fear for what they'll do to it on the big screen.

Posted by:

Evan

March 16, 2009

will only be good if RDA stars or else itll suck

Posted by:

Unraveling Syntax

March 16, 2009

They'll probably get Kiefer Sutherland to star and will turn it into a lame anti-terrorist vehicle. Oh, and throw Jaime Foxx in there somewhere.

Posted by:

sho'nuff

March 16, 2009

macgyver should be mexican since he's based on our resourceful ways

Posted by:

_N_r_chy

March 16, 2009

Methinks the MacGyver "resurrect-ors" just wanna jump on the bandwagon of adapting classic TV/film properties since that seems to be the 'in'-thing nowadays.

Hmmpph. Money MacGrubers.

Posted by:

jacob young

March 16, 2009

MACGRUBER! Making life saving inventions out of household materials! MACGRUBER!

"Don't worry everyone, I think that the producers have this film well in hand. There's absolutely no way that they would let us dow-" **EXPLOSION!**

MACGRUBER!

Posted by:

stupid

March 16, 2009

stupid thx to kill mcgyver, you have killed starsky&h, you have killed dukked hazzrd, is little to kill knight rider, the next movie ateam kill ateam,

thx stupid american thx

Posted by:

WCB

March 16, 2009

Please get Anderson to come back! And also, when are they finally gonna do a "Gilligan's Island" movie? Cuz I can totally see David Spade as Gilligan.

Posted by:

Roger, Roger

March 16, 2009

Dino De Laurentiis doing a MacGyver movie? Ok....