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Update: Jorma Taccone to Direct MacGruber Movie

Source: Production Weekly, The Hollywood Reporter

July 8, 2009

Jorma Taccone will direct MacGruber, based on the "Saturday Night Live" sketch parody of the TV show "MacGyver," reports Production Weekly. Filming begins next month in New Mexico.

The sketch stars Will Forte and Kristen Wiig (who replaced Maya Rudolph). Richard Dean Anderson (who played the title role in the "MacGyver" series) has also appeared on "MacGruber." The shorts are written by Forte, John Solomon, and Taccone.

Taccone is responsible for creating the character and directed most of the spots with the exception of the Jonah Hill and Shia LaBeouf episodes, which were both directed by John Solomon.

The sketch revolves around MacGruber always becoming consumed with some sort of personal issue, to the detriment of himself and his assistants.

UPDATE: The Hollywood Reporter adds that Ryan Phillippe is in negotiations to star in the feature, with Val Kilmer in negotiations to also join the Paramount and Relativity Media production.

In the film, the legendary, much decorated MacGruber is pulled out of retirement as a monk in Ecuador by a colonel, who needs him once more to fight on behalf of his country. This time the mission involves going up against the evil Cunth, who has a nuclear warhead; the mission is personal because Cunth killed MacGruber's bride.

The movie version would see Phillippe playing Piper, an Army officer forced to pair up with a reluctant MacGruber. Kilmer would be Cunth.

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Posted by:

cwick

July 7, 2009

after the super bowl spot, this movie will probably just make me wanna blow my brains out.

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Mike

July 7, 2009

I don't really watch SNL but I've caught a few MacGruber skits... EXTREMELY not funny. At all. I would rather see the Target lady and Justin Timberlake bicker back and fourth for two hours.

Seriously they should have learned their lesson about trying to make skits into movies. It worked with Wayne's World, but that was really it.

Posted by:

Ryan

July 7, 2009

No. No. No. Epic fail. No.

Posted by:

JustABill

July 7, 2009

Coneheads worked too. But other than that.

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CBH

July 7, 2009

What about Blues Brothers, that was the best skit to flick ever. Followed by Waynes World then Cone heads...what about the Will Farrell and the other dude who did the dance/head bob skits that turned into a pretty bad movie too.

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Michael Banno

July 7, 2009

Wayne's World was a hit. But can MacGruber hit it like Wayne Campbell?

Posted by:

Hiroo

July 7, 2009

Night at the Roxbury was a pretty great movie...

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Rush

July 7, 2009

CBH, that was A Night at the Roxbury, and it was terrible. As was Superstar, Stuart Saves His Family, It's Pat The Movie, etc. Really, there havent been any other good ones besides Blues Bros (part 2 was an insult), Waynes World and Coneheads, though Ladies Man had me chuckling a couple of times too. This movie will kill sperm and IQ points, guaranteed

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Thomas Zulli

July 7, 2009

Ok it was funny at first but can they have a full lengh movie where a commercial and sketches are torture enough

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Movie Man

July 7, 2009

Honestly, "MacGrueber" is just dumb, and they wasted $3 million on a pointless Super Bowl ad that nobody liked anyway.

On the good news front, I heard the movie's running time will be 5 seconds.