If Harrison Ford can come back for another Indy movie, surely RDA could do a Macgyver flick.

GutterIsATool

I see it now: MacGyver vs. Chuck Norris. A little BenGay goes a long way.

Slappy McSlapp

But who's gonna play mac's mullet?

Wolfgame

@russdogg:I second the NPH vote, with a mentor-type cameo from Richard Dean Anderson. It has to be 'Wherever God takes me' NPH from Harold and Kumar thought, not the NPH from Doogie.

Gann

You obviously haven't heard of one Neil Patrick Harris. NPR was born to play Mac. [www.paunchstevenson.com]

russdogg

I agree, anyone other than Richard would be like having somoe replace Harrison Ford as Indy.

ShadowX

Richard Dean Anderson, hands down.

You should be ashamed for even SUGGESTING they use another actor. You're lucky MacGyver teaches us not to use guns or else you'd be in BIG trouble ;-)

krizoitz

as long as he has a mullet, i dont care

Sheemo44

Here is a paper clip and a iPhone, figure out how to put a sim card in it. That alone makes me feel like McGyver. . .

--Tito--

I vote Richard Dean Anderson or bust. The guy's 58, but I can't imagine anyone else playing that role

discounteggroll

If they do not get RDA, I will not be going to the movies for this film, but I will download it.

ghnvt

He really liked his little stiny on The Simpsons, so I say WHY NOT. Better than that McGrueber skit on SNL.

TheManator

I haven't been as excited for a movie in a while. I vote Richard Dean Anderson. And no younger sidekick like in Live Free Or Die Hard and The new Indiana Jones.

Jekyll22

No one can touch Richard Dean Anderson. Stargate fell apart with him and MccGyver would completely fail without him.

ParJoe

I bet MacGyver is the owner of Psystar...

VakeroRokero

@discounteggroll: I second that! I hope someone with some sway is reading this.

eagleapex

I for one vote for Gary Coleman, switch it up a bit.

jackfrost132

bring a new guy, but don't forget the mullets

vinchbr

RDA FTW! I mean, it's been a loooooong time since I saw an episode of MacGyver (and yes, I caught them first hand, not re-runs), but he wasn't the actiony sort anyway. He was the action-brainsort. And, he did a hell of a job on StarGate. He carried that.

hypereric

They should work in at least one or two actors from Stargate just to get a little cross-over interest from the younger dorks. Make it Amanda Tapping. Have RDA bring his mullet, and Tapping bring her gunt.

crap-action-jackson

If this movie gets made, that can only mean that Patty and Selma Bouvier, Marge's chain-smoking twin sisters on the Simpsons, now wield more power in Hollywood than Michael Eisner, Jeffrey Katzenberg, and Steven Spielberg all rolled into one.

frigg

I squealed.

Aethyr

@russdogg: Neil Patrick Harris??? Not even. Far too smug. Knowing that blockbuster movie execs work primarily on the basis of the numbers and maximizing dollars, I would also think they wouldn't want an openly gay man as the lead in a role as "hetero" as MacGuyver. Trying to sell that idea to Billy Bob in corn-fed America exposes the venture to far too much risk. Keifer Sutherland would make a good MacGuyver.

iPhony

@russdogg: @Gann: I think NPH for a young Mac, and we show again some of the reasons he doesn't like certain things, or we he picked up certain traits. @krizoitz: Then we fast forward to the present Mac. It work for the Last Crusade. Except for Pete Dalton, everyone is still around, right? Get Wenger(not Victorinox, b/c their scissors are crap) to make a special Mac edition Swiss Army Knife(I'll buy one), and you have a hit for a lot of people.

Git Em SteveDave

RDA! RDA! RDA!
I think my pants just got a wee bit wet hearing this.

BoinK

They cast a kid named Nicholas Matus as MacGyver's son in the very last episode. He'd probably fit the bill if he's still around.

ejl10

PS.... Nick Matus is gone gone...

[www.imdb.com]

Stacky Botrus

The way I see it, if Harrison Ford can still play Indiana Jones.. there is only 1 choice for MacGyver - RDA.

Stacky Botrus

I vote Samuel L Jackson.

Barry99705

RDA > NPH

i have seen reruns of macgyver and there is no replacing RDA with anybody else, especially NPH

wyssaj01

I second Neil Patrick Harris.

Mecharine

RDA can head the Phoenix Foundation if he doesn't want to do field work anymore. But hell yes, he'd better be in it.

LiC

RDA for sure. And wasn't that brunette chick from Desperate Housewives a frequent guest star / comic relief / love interest? She'll do still, obviously.

FLskydiver

Yes they should have him in it, he's the original. Oh the gadgets! Why don't you mark stories like this as "sit on garbage bag" so those of us who pee themselves over news like this will have advance warning? Oh Gizmodo why does't thou vex us with such peeworthy stories and no warning!

Hello_Newman

Um . . . I'd hardly say this rises to the level of, "Holy Crap." Lee David Zlotoff is a writer who hardly writes. In the last 10 years he's written two episodes for third-rate TV shows nobody's heard of. That's it. He's written exactly one movie for the big screen in his entire career (The Spitfire Grill, more than 10 years ago), and he's never produced a single movie.

There's a ginormous difference between Lee David Zlotoff planning a blockbuster movie, and a blockbuster movie actually coming.

shmokes

Anderson does deserve it

burnblue

Richard Dean Anderson!!!

war59312

the stargate films finished, what else does he have to do! come on RDA!!!

Balmut

RDA may not be older than usual top billing long career actors, but time has not been too kind to him. Current trend of old farts doing action movies where they get love interests one third their age is getting seriously old. Time to start replacing male actors with younger versions. Imagine if they had remade Bourne Identity with Richard Chamberlain who was the original Bourne.

I hope they do a passing the torch type of thing with RDA retiring from Phoenix and mentoring a replacement. BTW, new Mac could just as well be a woman. That worked well in DarkAngel, Xena and TombRaider, whereas new male macgyver like character John Doe already failed.

Bloodboiler

RDA = see in theatre

NPH = download torrent

ari14850

Trivia:
I have been called "MacGyver" more times than I can count.
(I tend to be handy, creative and resourceful, though I draw the line at the hair style.)

To date I have never seen an episode of that program.

strider_mt2k

RDA! RDA! RDA! RDA!

Derek, IN

Definitely Richard Dean Anderson! grew up watching MacGyver - ran into RDA in the LA airport once - he was so much like the MacGyver character.

snipes77

If they used any one but RDA it wouldn't be Macgyver... It'd be like having Shia LeBouf play Indiana Jones rather than Harrison Ford. Would any true Macgyver fan pay to see anyone else in the lead role? RDA is an institution and yes, I am aware that posting this makes me lame. But this is one thing I'm willing to be a loser over.

RVM

a macgyver movie without RDA playing the title role will be a mistake of epic proportions.

bubuli

i cant wait to fashion my movie ticket out of a cue tip some 3m spray adhesive and a swiss army knife

BigViper

check out "macgyver: the college years" series on youtube. stuff's pretty funny. the kid that plays him is good too, even though his mullet looks like a dead rat...and what about murdoch?

macabee

Comment on Holy Crap: MacGyver Blockbuster Film Coming! The best MacGyver adaptation ever... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSfiyI-qsw4

IrmaAlcestis

krizoitz:

MacGuyver taught us not to use guns throughout the lifetime of the series b/c of his experience as a child where a friend died from a horrible accident while Mac was horsing around with his 2nd Amendment rights BUT...

If you remember the Pilot episode of MacGuyver, Ol' Angus MacG had no problems busting out his AK and blasting away at all the terrorists. I guess he "forgot" about his anti-gun creedo for that first episode.

But mark me down for a "bring back Richard Dean Anderson" guy.

CaptainComment

They should make Scott Bakula do it, than have Richard Dean play Al in the Quantum leap movie. Dean Stockwell gets the roll of Pete. Mac's Boss, and Murdock is cast for the Rock.

MagnoliaBoy

I still say Samuel L Jackson would make an awesome McGyver.

Barry99705

@Barry99705:
Nice!
He can make MFing snakes into a MFing plane!!

strider_mt2k

RDA with a younger guy.
NPH?
Sure.
Fine.
Whatever.

RRich

Dicaprio as MacGyver confirmed

haha no man that would suck

but this is an amazing anouncement

mpar

I'm all for this as long as they do not create another 'MacGyver:Lost Treasure of Atlantis' (shudder) - there is only so much the mullet can do.

And oh yes, RDA FTW.

F3ngles

I would only watch this film if the cameras were made from shoeboxes, a tin can, bifocal reading lenses and an empty can of pringles and filmed on duct tape.

Dragonis

@strider_mt2k:
do you usually request random unrelated items such as avocados and paper clips?

seasons 1-7 are a massive 44.5GB on ze torrents...I'm only 0.9% done =(

discounteggroll

@discounteggroll: Or tell your TiVo to grab em all. It's worth it. MacGyver is still as great as it once was. I never liked Stargate, but RDA was excellent in this role and he's still pretty young.

Schalliol

@strider_mt2k: I was called the bastard son of MacGyver and Cliff Claven in high school. I was never w/o my Gerber Multi-pliers or my Wenger Swiss Army Knife.

Git Em SteveDave

Someone said Keifer Sutherland... not bad choice. Definately not Harris, though. He's gay.

Stacky Botrus

You can't have MacGyver without Richard Dean Anderson. Kinda like you can't have Indiana Jones without Harrison Ford.

bms

@Gann: I would support NPH as MacGuyver, but only if they made a Doogie Howser movie and let Richard Dean Anderson play the lead in that. It's only fair.

Cupajo

Fun fact: He's actually holding the bottle he was lovingly fed with as a child.

@VakeroRokero: If that were true, the computer would actually be good.

Kaiser-Machead

For extra realism, make sure all macgyverisms are vetted by the Mythbusters.

Or even better: give them a cameo appearance!

Sartorius

For extra realism, make sure all mcgyverisms are vetted by the Mythbusters.

Or even better: give them a cameo appearance!

Sartorius

Mac! Yes! If it's not Richard Dean Anderson I will get very angry.....build a large plane out of straw and shaving cream then bomb California. I'm just saying.

Jimbuck

First - they should leave well enough alone_

Harrison Ford looks like he's about as old as the skeletons he runs around in the "new" Indiana Jones movie_

Hollywood really needs to STOP re-making shit and come up with new ideas_

But in the meantime - if they must re-make McGyver - no one can replace Richard Dean !!

uberfu

Yeah, Richard Dean Anderson. FTW.

If they do replace him they can't get him from a casting agent. The actor needs to be made from orange Peels, petroleum Jelly, 3 Advils, an old Chevy engine and a pair of binoculars by Richard Dean Anderson.

Garrison Dean, King Awesome

I think my favorite podcast quote ever is from Extraliferadio, where some kid called in and said "I don't think Richard Dean Anderson would make a very good MacGyver."

Why does Darwinism take so long?

Guy-Fawkes

Comment on Holy Crap: MacGyver Blockbuster Film Coming! The only problem I see is RDA himself. RDA backed out of Stargate because the physical stunts were becoming too demanding - he'd had some pretty sever knee injuries and wasn't up to continuing in such a physical role. A MacGuyver film would be like making an episode of a television show to the nth level. Due to health reasons, I'd think he'd decline the role.

DerwinMarigold

I say we put Jack Bower and MacGyver in a room and see who gets out first.

kyp

if this movie gets made I guarantee Jeep will roll out some MacGuyver Special Editions.

teh_joe

What will McGyver be after 10 years of Stargate...

IVPPITER

Richard Dean Anderson, absolutely. If Harrison Ford can still be Dr. Jones, then RDA can be Angus Macgyver.

Added bonus, he's only gotten better looking with age. Trust me.

Meiran