The Six Billion Dollar Man, the adjusted-for-inflation film adaptation of the classic series The Six Million Dollar Man starring Mark Wahlberg, won’t hit theaters until December 2017.
News of the project first surfaced in November 2014, when it looked like Wahlberg would be reuniting with his Lone Survivor director Peter Berg again. However, Berg is no longer involved.
Instead, Dimension Films announced Monday that Damian Szifron, the Argentinian director behind Wild Tales, will write and direct the new movie. Variety reports that the studio announced that production will start in September 2016. It will come out over a year later, on Dec. 22, 2017.
The Six Million Dollar Man starred Lee Majors as Col. Steve Austin, who becomes a cyborg and works for the government after a crippling accident. It was based on Martin Caidin’s novel Cyborg and ran from 1974 to 1978.
“I’m thrilled to assemble The Six Billion Dollar Man for the big screen with the likes of Bob Weinstein and Damián Szifron,” Wahlberg said in a statement released by Dimension. “We look forward to creating a Steve Austin for the 21st century.”
Wahlberg, Bob Weinstein and Stephen Levinson will produce.
TV film adaptations haven’t done well recently - The Man from UNCLE only made $45 million in the U.S. - so, it’s not clear why Dimension thinks this one will work. As for Wahlberg, you can see him on the big screen next in Daddy’s Home will Will Ferrell on Christmas Day.