MacGyver: The Movie
Richard Dean Anderson in MacGyver
New Line’s Richard Brener, who will oversee with Sam Brown and Walter Hamada the making of the ‘MacGyver’ movie, said that “We think we’re a stick of chewing gum, a paper clip and an A-list writer away from a global franchise.”
Series creator Lee Zlotoff along Raffaella De Laurentiis and Martha De Laurentiis, from Raffaella Productions, will be producing while Dino De Laurentiis will be the executive producer of the ‘MacGyver’ movie.
This science-oriented adventure tv series, which aired on ABC, started in 1985 and ended in 1992 on ABC. MacGyver, starred by Richard Dean Anderson, was an extremely creative and resourceful secret agent for the Phoenix Foundation. MacGyver would find himself escaping from dangerous situations by cleverly and quickly MacGyvering (jury-riging) a solution.
After Anderson starred in two movies made for tv that aired years after the show’s cancellation, there was an increase in the use of the word “MacGyver’. When anyone would try to jury-rig something with household supplies it was refered to as ‘MacGyvering’ a solution. Even “Saturday Night Live” went as far as “MacGrubering” a skit which starred Will Forte.
This ‘MacGyver’ movie doesn’t have a writer yet but the studio hopes to find a script that will portray the seriousness yet funny and adventurous that we’ve all grown to know in the ‘MacGyver’ tv series.
