UPDATE: ZOMFG! Have any of you guys seen Matthew McConaughey’s official website? It’s actually called “Just Keep Livin’”and you can cruise his glossies while listening to terrible reggae. Amazing! Thanks to Slashfilm reader “Black Flag Inuit” for the tippity top of tips!
Sorry, but real men are not literally golden. Real men don’t grow gigantic mustaches before they start filming action flicks, they already get the thumbs up when they see Lionel Richie at the market. EW reports that Mr. Oscar Abs aka Matthew McConaughey is currently (and finally) reading the script for the long lingering Magnum P.I. remake by writer/director Rawson Thurber (Dodgeball); you know, Magnum P.I., the TV show that got polite but stern, very hairy men in Hawaiian shirts laid by babes for a generation? So, if EW is correct, the shirt is off and the offer is on the table to McConaughey.
Listen, I just saw Selleck, Mr. Tom Selleck, on Craig Ferguson (another real dude), and he looks fine. He even has a ranch with one goat. I guess he’s making some bank off the M/GILFs for his Jesse Stone: Small Town Police Chief franchise, but the guy has forever earned this movie and the role of Thomas Sullivan Magnum, IV. And if not, he should be able to handpick the V heir to the character’s Ferrari and the world’s finest, exquisitely tan-lined catches.
McConaughey is ideal for movies like Sahara, Tropic Thunder and Surfer Dude, but playing an ex-Navy Seal? Is he going to grow a kit and by kit I mean a chest so hairy it takes four bimbos with blow dryers to get us to the next scene? Stop the madness.
Discuss: Whatevs, just no bongo talk.
April 2nd, 2008 at 7:33 pm
I love the title… Perfect.
April 2nd, 2008 at 7:45 pm
Hey…hey guys, hey guys…remember that one time when Matthew got busted whilst playing the bongos naked? Yeah…that was funny.
April 2nd, 2008 at 7:52 pm
wow, what a waste of money. anyone who goes to see a magnum pi movie deserves to be shot.
April 2nd, 2008 at 8:59 pm
I like bongos.
Whatevs. lolcomedy!
My internet connec sucks.
April 2nd, 2008 at 9:28 pm
I got a boner when I read GILFS.
April 2nd, 2008 at 9:29 pm
If Harrison Ford can reprise the role that Tom Selleck almost had then, Selleck should be able to reprise Magnum P. I. McConaughey should go make Sahara 2 or whatever.
April 2nd, 2008 at 9:47 pm
Tom Selleck as Magnum = AWESOME
Matthe McConaughey as Magnum = BAD IDEA
nuff said
April 2nd, 2008 at 9:51 pm
Great title indeed. Easily the best subject line on any post I’ve read on /film.
Oh oh oh. Since the bongo incident’s already been brought up, I do believe there’s only one other worthwhile Matthew McConaughey joke to make:
“That’s what I love about Magnum P.I., man. Tom Selleck gets older, the character stays the same age…”
April 2nd, 2008 at 10:11 pm
Hairy chests aside, I think he’s perfect for the Hawaiian-shirt wearing, island-living Magnum.
That said, I never liked Magnum P.I. and haven’t enjoyed McConaughey since A Time to Kill. Epic fail.
@Alex: Heh!
April 2nd, 2008 at 10:15 pm
Zap,
I said the same thing about the Dukes of Hazard and Starsky & Hitch films.
April 2nd, 2008 at 10:15 pm
Hutch* :I
April 2nd, 2008 at 10:24 pm
Higgins: I wont stand for this!
Magnum: all right all right all right…
April 2nd, 2008 at 11:36 pm
First, McConaughey has a damn Texas accent! Second, why is it that the studio cannot get a better director than once known for the crappy movie Dodgeball? Let him direct the A-Team movie…
April 3rd, 2008 at 1:15 am
It really doesn’t matter who plays Magnum. As long as Jack Black isn’t allowed to play Higgins, we’re safe.
April 3rd, 2008 at 6:09 am
Captain Awesome:
While I am in no way saying Starsky and Hutch was a good (or even enjoyable) film, at least that was a semi-parody. If this Magnum PI remake isn’t somewhat of a spoof then it will be absolute murder on the senses, kind of like Hunter’s writing.
April 3rd, 2008 at 6:52 am
McConaughey as Magnum?, Oh - My - God!!! Comon Sellick you can do it!
April 3rd, 2008 at 10:19 am
I agree that there is no Thomas Magnum other than Tom Selleck. (Come to think of it, didn’t it turn out there really was no Thomas Magnum at all - wasn’t he just another character Robin Masters made up?)
But if they’re going to insist on making this movie, and knowing Hollywood . . . they will . . . it might as well be McConaughey. I mean who else would they cast that might actually have some B.O. draw?
Clooney might actually have the closest Magnum-like attitude, but would Mr. Batnipples ever be man enough to grow that stache?!?!
Now who would play T.C.? Ving Rhames? If they’re going for funny, how about Craig Robinson?
April 3rd, 2008 at 5:44 pm
Unlike every other television show turned into a movie, I truly believe that the role of Thomas Magnum played by Selleck was the key to that show being the success it was.
The only way McConaughey is going to be stopped at this point in the game, is if the fans make an actual attempt to raise awareness to the studio (Universal) and production company (Imagine Ent.). Let them no, nobody wants to see a MAGNUM movie without Selleck and the rest of the original cast.
Tell producer Brian Grazer, NO!
Imagine Entertainment
9465 Wilshire Blvd., 7th Fl.
Beverly Hills, CA 90212
Phone: 310-858-2000
Fax: 310-858-2020
June 2nd, 2008 at 2:58 pm
Don’t do it UNIVERSAL PICTURES!!!!
Magnum PI is loved by Vietnam Veterans for the thoughtful and refreshing treatment protrayed in the show with regard to their very delicate issues.
Bring back the cast and everything will be ok!
Just bring back the cast Damn it!!!!!
To be stupid. No one I know will go see some shmalzty new version.
Come on Mr. Grazer!!!!
July 1st, 2008 at 8:12 am
Selleck is Magnum. That is that. The entire cast is alive!
20 years later is how it should finish what the show started dont pretend that the show never existed. what are they gonna do pretend its 1982?
Its 2008. I want to see what Magnum is doing now.