New Line Cinema have signed Australian director James Wan to direct the MacGyver feature film. Wan is best know for directing the horror flick ‘Saw’ and has a list of other horror/thriller films to his credit. Born in Malaysia, Wan grew up in Perth, Western Australia where he first discovered MacGyver and became a [...]

The world needs MacGyver according to its creator Lee David Zlotoff. In an interview given earlier this year he said “I am convinced that, given the current pressures on national and global resources—like food, water, energy, etc.—certainly this country, if not the world– needs a hero like MacGyver now.” The interview covered many aspects of [...]

The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that Jason Richman has been hired to pen the script for New Line’s upcoming MacGyver movie Richman wrote the action comedy “Bad Company” along with other movies Bangkok Dangerous and Swing Vote and also worked on a draft of “Beverly Hills Cop 4.” as well as uncredited work on “Black [...]

In a recent interview for the Lifehacker website, MacGyver creator Lee David Zlutoff said that the MacGyver movie is still going ahead and is currently having a script written, for which he was “anxiously looking forward to seeing how it turns out.” He also commented briefly about his lawsuit over the MacGruber movie, saying that [...]

The THR,Esq. blog of The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that lawyers for MacGyver creator, Lee Zlotoff, have sent  cease-and-desist letters to Relativity Media, the studio that produced the “MacGruber” film. Paul Mayersohn, a lawyer for Mr. Zlotoff, told The Hollywood Reporter, “We feel they’re infringing our rights.” Mr. Mayersohn added that he’s meeting with litigators [...]

The owners of the houseboat originally used to film the MacGyver TV show say they have contacted Raffaella Productions, the company producing the new MacGyver movie, with an offer to use their houseboat once again as MacGyver’s home in the upcoming movie. “We read about it in the paper and phoned California right away.” They [...]

  The announcement of plans for a MacGyver movie has spread around the world like wild fire. Every news blog on the internet seems to have grabbed this news and is running with it. It’s even beginning to appear on TV news. While many of the first reports where just copies of the original news [...]

According to a news report from The Hollywood Reporter, the 80’s icon, MacGyver is set to be made into a feature film. Raffaella De Laurentiis, daughter of Dino De Laurentiis, is producing the film hrough her Raffaella Prods. company along with Martha De Laurentiis and series creator Lee Zlotoff and Dino De Laurentiis as exec [...]