So you better believe when I recently heard that freakin' Matthew McConaughey was going being rumored as playing Selleck's character in a Magnum PI movie I was pretty bitter.
After the blunder that was Sahara it was proven that McConaughey had no place in an action film. Not only were his acting skills absent like they always are, but he acted far more like the stoner that he is than a treasure hunter or all around badass like he was supposed to be in the movie. It ended up being a total joke, and it was because of the lead actor moreso than the poor storyline.
I'm worried that McConaughey is going to ##### up the roll, it'll be like Miami Vice or something... A horrible adaptation that should have never surfaced.
On a positive note, Steve Zahn ( Who was also at McConaughey's side for Sahara ) is rumored to be in the film.
It's just a rumor at this point and may very well stay that way... Because the actors slated to play the film are nearly identical to those placed in Sahara ( William H Macy as Higgins? wtf ) but Dark Horizons is a farily legitimate source of news and it's also backed by a few other sites.
Source: http://www.darkhorizons.com/news07/070117f.php
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The long rumored "Magnum P.I." movie adaptation is back in the gossip talk again after seemingly dying on the vine last year.
Teletext UK reports that "Dodgeball" director Rawson Marshall Thurber has finished his redraft of the script and in a surprise move has selected much of the cast already.
The report lists that Matthew McConaughey will play Magnum, Steve Zahn will be his friend Rick, Tyrese Gibson the chopper flying T.C., and William H. Macy as British landlord Higgins.
This is strange as all but Tyrese played somewhat similar roles in 2005's film adaptation of the Clive Cussler adventure novel "Sahara" - a good fun action film which sadly bombed at the box-office.
Also strange - a Magnum without chest hair, blasphemy!! - but at least anyone who has picked up a tabloid mag in the past twelve months has an idea of what McConaughey would look like dressed only in facial hair and running shorts.
The plan is to stick with the idea of Magnum and his friends being war veterans - though Iraq war rather than Vietnam.
Teletext UK reports that "Dodgeball" director Rawson Marshall Thurber has finished his redraft of the script and in a surprise move has selected much of the cast already.
The report lists that Matthew McConaughey will play Magnum, Steve Zahn will be his friend Rick, Tyrese Gibson the chopper flying T.C., and William H. Macy as British landlord Higgins.
This is strange as all but Tyrese played somewhat similar roles in 2005's film adaptation of the Clive Cussler adventure novel "Sahara" - a good fun action film which sadly bombed at the box-office.
Also strange - a Magnum without chest hair, blasphemy!! - but at least anyone who has picked up a tabloid mag in the past twelve months has an idea of what McConaughey would look like dressed only in facial hair and running shorts.
The plan is to stick with the idea of Magnum and his friends being war veterans - though Iraq war rather than Vietnam.
