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Matthew McConaughey Considering Magnum P.I. Movie Blah Blah Blah Blah

Posted on Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008 by Hunter Stephenson

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.

Comments

Neil Miller

I love the title... Perfect.

Alex

Hey...hey guys, hey guys...remember that one time when Matthew got busted whilst playing the bongos naked? Yeah...that was funny.

Zap Rowsdower

wow, what a waste of money. anyone who goes to see a magnum pi movie deserves to be shot.

Zap Rowsdower

I like bongos.

Whatevs. lolcomedy!

My internet connec sucks.

dan

I got a boner when I read GILFS.

Tabor

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.

Craig

Tom Selleck as Magnum = AWESOME
Matthe McConaughey as Magnum = BAD IDEA

nuff said

Max

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..."

Great White Snark

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!

Captain Awesome

Zap,

I said the same thing about the Dukes of Hazard and Starsky & Hitch films.

Captain Awesome

Hutch* :I

Kip

Higgins: I wont stand for this!

Magnum: all right all right all right...

Ry

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...

Thumb

It really doesn't matter who plays Magnum. As long as Jack Black isn't allowed to play Higgins, we're safe.

Zap Rowsdower

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.

Wayne

McConaughey as Magnum?, Oh - My - God!!! Comon Sellick you can do it!

Finz

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?

Dex

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

Tom

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!!!!

Jason

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.

Del

I'm not watching a Magnum P.I movie without the original cast, simple as that. I used watch this all the time when I was Kid, got some great memories of the show and I don't want them ruined. If clooney or Mcconaghue really were fans they would turn down the offer of playing magnum and be the first to suggest Selleck be recast.

david

I am an european fan of magnum pi. I see all the episode of the show.

I think the movie should start in 2008, with his daughter 20 years later after the last episode, with the original cast of course, with every character even mack and luther gillis!!!

I hope this movie come soon but if they put clooney or moconaughney i certainly dont see, because this is not magnum!!!

Steve

I would love to see Selick as Magnum, but If they were going for a younger Magnum, I would choose Vince Vaughn. Tim Curry as Higgins!

jstncspin82

Vince Vaughn is too big? Magnum is a skinny tall guy!

jstncspin82

I totally agree. I'm tired of Hollywood doing remakes of classics. The simple reason they do is because they don't have new ideas for new movies. Go create your own movies and TV shows, don't copy the past and ruin it. If they want to make a remake throw the old cast in. Like three older men - Magnum, TC, and Rick solving a case in there older years. Don't ruin it with McConaugay! HAHA! These idiots in Hollywood now days really know how to mess up a good thing. For instance Miami Vice - That should have been Don Johnson and Phillip Michael Thomas in that movie but they threw in two clows. Just like Robert Redford said about the rumor of John Travolta and Tom Cruise remaking Bitch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid - "Why remake something that was perfect the first time" A Magnum movie would be great but cast Selleck in it with his buddies and let the real artists go to work!

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