MacGyver rises from the Phoenix Foundation with nothing but an avocado, an ice pick and his snorkel

Just when you thought the Hollywood movie machine had mined the television of our youth along comes another show strip mined for our viewing pleasure. This time it is MacGyver. That's right, before Stargate Richard Dean Anderson played the dude who could use anything and everything to make something. First Showing had the news.

Legendary producer Dino De Laurentiis and his daughter Raffaella are producing, along with series creator Lee Zlotoff. No word on whether the original MacGyver, Richard Dean Anderson, will be involved, but our guess is that he's not going to have anything to do with this. New Line hasn't hired a writer yet either, but they hope to find a script "that can acknowledge how the concept has staked a place into pop culture yet still makes for a serious and fun adventure movie."

If this news itself wasn't painful enough, just listen to this pitiful pun from New Line's Richard Brener. "We think we're a stick of chewing gum, a paper clip and an A-list writer away from a global franchise."

Does the world need a MacGyver movie? If RDA doesn't want to don the McGyver mullett who could take his place? Anyone see a son of McGyver scenario developing?

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