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Posted: 18 March 2009 - 07:09 PM                                    
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The announcement of plans for a MacGyver movie has spread around the world like wild fire. Every news blog on the internet seems to have grabbed this news and is running with it. It’s even beginning to appear on a TV news.

While many of the first reports where just copies of the original news from The Hollywood Reporter, those who are picking it up a little later have gotten over the initial excitement of the news and are now beginning to take a little more objective approach to the news and starting to analyze it further.

We’re now beginning to see some thoughtful response and questions about this news. Aside from the obvious questions about casting, there’s also some pondering being done over New Line Cinema’s “We think we’re a stick of chewing gum, a paper clip and an A-list writer away from a global franchise.” As one report pointed out, this hardly inspires confidence.

Non-the-less this doesn’t take away from the impact the news seems to have had around the world. Who would have thought that a show from the 80’s which regularly got kicked around by Monday night football would make such a big impact with a movie announcement some 17 years after it ended.

Certainly the popularity of the MacGruber skits on Saturday Night Live and the recent guest appearance of MacGyver himself, Richard Dean Anderson, in these skits has had a bearing on the decision to run with this movie.

It shows that RDA is still willing and happy to be associated with the character, and more importantly that the character is still hugely popular and widely remembered by the general public. Piece this together with recent polls which show MacGyver as the #1 person most Americans would want beside them in a disaster and the #1 TV tough guy, and we have what would seem to be a perfect climate for a movie.

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Posted: 18 March 2009 - 08:11 PM                                    
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Good! The more noise that people make, hopefully the more TPTB will harken to our pleas for a thoughtful, adventurous film made with integrity and dedication.

... and, of course, with RDA! word2.png



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Posted: 18 March 2009 - 09:54 PM                                    
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and hopfully the noise would speed up the progress.



 
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Posted: 19 March 2009 - 05:51 AM                                    
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This is what makes MacGyver different from most of the remakes that have been done lately. Starsky & Hutch, The Dukes of Hazard etc, were mostly popular in America, and the remakes were aimed at Americans.

MacGyver is international, I think that when a child saw Mac was in their country, it made them feel like it was more 'their' show, rather than just another American show. Plus it was filmed in Canada LOL.

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Posted: 19 March 2009 - 01:47 PM                                    
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Good point, but I wonder if Hollywood understands that?

Hollywood seems to be a very much "by Americans, for Americans" kind of industry. I sometimes wonder if they even realize that other country's watch their films.








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Posted: 20 March 2009 - 03:18 AM                                    
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I hope they do.



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I just saw that the A-Team movie trailer has been released. I wonder if the amount of success of The A-Team movie will have any impact on whether or not they ever make a MacGyver movie. I would imagine that the target demographic would be similar, so if The A-Team is a big success, it MIGHT make people realize that a MacGyver movie could succeed. On the other hand, if nobody bothers to see The A-Team, it might make them decide there's no market for a movie based on a 80's TV show.
Just speculation, of course.



 
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Here's a clip from a local New Zealand morning TV show reporting the announcement of the MacGyver movie.




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That is so awesome! It feels good to see and hear that biggrin.gif



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"People still want MacGyver " biggrin.gif

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Oh, hell yeah! biggrin.gif

Old enough to play James MacGyver? huh.gif
He's been dead for nearly fifty years. ohmy.gif



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QUOTE (MacGyverGod @ 7 June 2010 - 01:44 PM)
Old enough to play James MacGyver? huh.gif
He's been dead for nearly fifty years. ohmy.gif

happy.gif Obviously none of those chippies are devotées of MacGyver--like us, anyway! lol

In flashbacks, p'rhaps... tho Mac usually remembers his grandfather Harry more than his dad. hmm.bmp



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Yeah!!

(Okay, so that was neither eloquent nor profound. But still. Yeah!!!)



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