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by Matt Goldberg Posted:May 20th, 2010 at 11:02 pm
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New Line Cinema has hired screenwriter Jason Richman (Bangkok Dangerous) to pen an adaptation of the popular 80s TV show, MacGyver. The series is best known for Richard Dean Anderson as the titular character who could bring together random everyday objects and save the day. The project was announced in March of last year, but according to Risky Business, Relativity Media followed by quickly putting together the parody MacGruber (based on the SNL sketch) and got a cast in front of cameras last summer and fall. That film opens tomorrow and it’s pretty good. I imagine that Richman’s script for MacGyver will have significantly less throat-ripping.
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I don't have a problem with adapting MacGyver to movie screens. Compared to 'The A-Team', a hero who won't use a gun could be kind of cool.
My problem is that there will be a bunch of idiot teens and college kids who will see the trailer and go “Oh, so its like a serious version of MacGruber'.
Thank, I'm a well educated 22 year old
When i was a child i watched the show MacGyver and still i am a fan. So no doubt i will watch the movie.
I just dont get & never have gotten the SNL 'skits'? Usually the initial premise is funny for like 5 minutes but after that the jokes just wear thin and they go on and on and on!
The humor is rarely ironic or sarcastic, its usually the most obvious stuff any kid would think of. Maybe because Im british I have a slightly sharper appreciation of what good humor is. But holy cow, making another movie out of an SNL skit is madness IMHO..