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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?
If Harrison Ford can reprise Indy Jones at the age of 113 then dammit Richard Dean Anderson can play MacGyver!!!
Yeah, my karma sucks....but so do the mods.
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. 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
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.
That which does not kill me only postpones the inevitable.
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.