Posted on 01 September 2009 by Tammy Cakes
Ryan Phillippe and his co stars SNL’s Kristen Wiig and Will Forte were on the set filming their new movie ‘ MacGruber,’ in Albuquerque, New Mexico yesterday.
If you’re not familiar, MacGruber is the recurring Saturday Night Live sketch that parodies MacGyver (the 80’s series where MacGyver could make weapons out of paperclips). The most famous MacGruber skit is the Pepsi one.
Forte plays the titular bumbling spy and Wiig reprises her Vicki character (MacGruber’s assistant).
If you’re not familiar, MacGruber is the recurring Saturday Night Live sketch that parodies MacGyver. The most famous MacGruber skit is the Pepsi one. Forte plays a bumbling spy and Wiig reprises her Vicki character as MacGruber’s assistant.
SNL actor Bill Hader recently told press he’s excited to see the sketch get played out in a full-length film and can’t wait for the final product.
“I read the script, and it’s like a hard-R comedy, and it totally works. It’s hilarious. It’s kind of in the vein of, like, eighties action movies, like there’s a very definitive bad guy. I don’t know if I can talk about the plot too much, but it’s hilarious. The thing that kind of blew my mind about it is that it’s like a HARD-R movie. I was like, ‘What is this? This is f***ing ugly. You guys are really going to do this?’ And they’re like, ‘Yup.’ And I was like, ‘That is awesome. That is f***ing hilarious.”
Posted on 19 March 2009 by Michael DeZubiria
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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Posted on 17 March 2009 by Pink Panther
MacGyver epiodes
Looks like the MacGyver movie is a go. I, for one, cannot wait. Anyway, TV.com has full episodes of the original series. Be fun to watch them again before the movie comes out!
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.
