MacGyver Green-Lit For the Big Screen
New Line Cinema has approved a project to revive the 1985-1992 television series about an extraordinarily talented secret agent in a feature film adaptation. I'm not exactly sure who the target audience is supposed to be, because people who weren't interested in the show will miss out on the novelty of the whole thing and fans will be overcome with doubt that they won't screw it up by casting Owen Wilson or Matthew MacConaughey in the title role.The movie is tentatively slated for a 2011 release, but as of yet there is no writer attached (this should tell you something about where exactly they are as far as production...), and no word yet about whether or not the 60-year-old Richard Dean Anderson will reprise the title role. Seems to me that they're damned if they do and damned if they don't, although the recent Rambo, Rocky, and Indiana Jones sequels have indicated a lack of hesitation on the part of studios to cast the aging stars of the past.
Regardless, I will tell you this much. Just in researching the project I've noticed that these "using nothing but a paperclip, a shoelace and a stick of chewing gum" jokes get real old real quick. I hope they can make it interesting again!
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