MacGyver Film In the Works?

An anonymous reader writes "Looks like everyone's favorite Swiss Army knife-wielding action hero may be making an appearance on the big screen. The original series creator has announced plans are in the works for a MacGyver film. Serious questions abound: Will Richard Dean Anderson reprise the role? Will filming and editing somehow be done only using a paperclip, duct-tape, and TV remote?" And who, if not Anderson, would you want to play MacGyver?

Must be the right person

[mikesd81]

There was a supposed to be a show a while back called Young MacGyver. I can't recall the actor, but the producers at least had someone cast. They can't run MacGyver by casting some moron like Ben Stiller or some other half bit comedian. AND definitely not Tom Cruise. Matt Damon maybe? Young Mac write up on imdb [imdb.com].

Are You Kidding?

[Skeetskeetskeet]

If Harrison Ford can reprise Indy Jones at the age of 113 then dammit Richard Dean Anderson can play MacGyver!!!

Re:Murdoch!

[DavidTC]

RDA, up until about four years ago, was on Stargate SG-1, a show that required more action work than MacGyver ever did. He was running around big fields and alien hallways firing guns at things, instead of messing around with chemicals in a closet.

Unless something has happened to him since then (Wasn't he just in the second SG-1 direct-to-video film?), he clearly can do the role of MacGyver.

Re:Alternate Cast

[rkcallaghan]

moderratorrater wrote:

According to the legends, everything on MacGuyver could have been done, so why not have them show how it was right? In fact, have [Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage] make a mythbusters proving/disproving the movie anyway; it'll be a big boost to publicity for both shows.

The Mythbusters have already done a MacGyver episode [discovery.com]. Several of the myths were busted, though many of them did have an element of truth to them, they could not be performed nearly so bare bones as Mac did.

~Rebecca

Re:I can't describe how much i hate that show now

[mikesd81]

And a lot of the science behind what he does was proven plausible, just some extra steps had to be done in real life to make it actually work. Here [wikipedia.org].

Re:Duh!

[Daffy Duck]

Not his choice, really. According to Screen Actors' Guild rules, he can't use the exact same name as another actor, and Richard Anderson (who played Oscar Goldman on The Six Million Dollar Man) got there first.

MacGyver for the new millenium

[Guerilla* Napalm]

Opening scene: MacGyver is standing in a queue at the airport waiting to board a flight, only to be arrested as a terrorist when security officials discovers his swiss army knife. He's shipped off to Guantanamo Bay, and dies in a failed waterboarding interrogation.