A very odd piece of news is that their may be a movie version of the Saturday Night Live sketch MacGruber coming to the big screen. Ryan Philippe and Val Kilmer are in talks to star in the film.
Ryan Phillippe is in negotiations to star in the feature, with Val Kilmer in negotiations to join the Paramount and Relativity Media production. Will Forte and Kristen Wiig are reprising their roles from the skits.
Jorma Taccone, who created the character and directed most of the skits, is at the helm of the film; “SNL” producer and creator Lorne Michaels is producing.
“MacGyver” starred Richard Dean Anderson as an especially resourceful secret agent and aired on ABC from 1985 to 1992. The “MacGruber” sketches star Forte as MacGyver’s son, with Wiig as an assistant. They always find themselves, along with that week’s host, in a control room with a ticking bomb about to go off. MacGruber gets sidelined by personal issues, and the bomb explodes.
Forte and Taccone wrote the parodies with John Solomon. The trio wrote the feature script, which, finds the legendary, much-decorated MacGruber retired and living as a monk in Ecuador — until he’s enlisted to fight 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.
The project has been an open secret around Hollywood, with Forte even talking about it on “Late Night With Jimmy Fallon” last month.
This would truly be funny if they get it right, SNL is not as funny as it used to be.
Source: Rueters
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