SNL's "MacGruber" Skits Get Big Screen Treatment

It looks like we'll be getting a MacGruber movie in addition to the MacGyver movie that was announced in March.

A big screen version of Will Forte's Saturday Night Live character has been greenlit. SNL cast member Kristen Wiig will continue to play her Vicki character, and Val Kilmer and Ryan Phillippe are in negotiations to join the cast.

The "MacGruber" skits parody the '80s television show MacGyver. The original series starred Richard Dean Anderson as a (now infamously) mulleted secret agent who used his scientific and engineering knowledge to piece together everyday objects to escape from dangerous situations.

Watch Anderson join Forte and Wiig in this MacGruber skit/commercial:

[Variety]

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Movie News: MacGyver

New Line has begun development on a MacGyver feature film. Series creator Lee Zlotoff, Rafaella De Laurentiis (daughter of Dino De Laurentiis) and Martha De Laurentiis (wife of Dino De Laurentiis) will produce. The original MacGyver TV series aired from 1985-92 and starred Richard Dean Anderson as the title character, who used his science and engineering knowledge to ingeniously cobble together everyday objects to escape from dangerous situations. Anderson, who is also known for his eight-year leading role on Stargate SG-1, has revisited the MacGyver character in recent years in MasterCard commercials and the recent "MacGruber" sketches on Saturday Night Live. [The Hollywood Reporter]

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