“MacGruber,” the “Saturday Night Live” skit that parodies the action series “MacGyver,” is one step closer to going before cameras as a big-screen movie, with real actors Ryan Phillippe and Val Kilmer in negotiations to join the cast. According to the Hollywood Reporter, the movie has a home at Paramount and Relativity Media. SNL actors Will Forte and Kristen Wiig, who has done with her career what we all hoped Cheri Oteri would, are reprising their roles from the skits.
Jorma Taccone, who created the character and directed most of the skits, is directing the feature, and , of course, “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.
Exactly. This is the equivalent of an entire feature being made of Eddie Murphy’s Tyrone Green (“Kill My Landlord”) skit. And it’s all our fault, 80s children. We went to see “Wayne’s World” and we created a monster that will never die.
Well, one great thing about this announcement is that it almost guarantees that “Austin Powers” is dead. Or…is he?
THR continues to reveal that Forte, Taccone and John Solomon 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.
Phillippe plays Piper, an Army officer forced to pair up with a reluctant MacGruber. Kilmer would be Cunth.
No word on whether or not Pepsi will be paying for product placement.
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