While CBS tires to bring MacGyver back to the small screen, Lionsgate is hoping to take the resourceful secret agent to the big screen.
Lionsgate CEO Jon Feltheimer announced the project while going over the studio’s quarterly earnings report with analysts today, reports Variety. He said that creator Lee David Zlotoff will produce with The Fast and the Furious’ Neal Moritz. He declined to go into further details.
News of the project comes just as CBS ordered a pilot for a MacGyver reboot. Paul Downs Colaizzo is writing the script, with James Wan (Furious 7) directing. It’s not clear if the CBS project is linked to Lionsgate’s in any way.
MacGyver ran from 1985 to 1992, and starred Richard Dean Anderson as a secret agent who can get himself out of any situation thanks to his famous resourcefulness. Anderson played the character again in two TV movies.
Oddly enough, Will Forte’s Saturday Night Live parody MacGruber got a movie before the actual MacGyver.