I don't want to get hopes up . . .

[Agatha]

Thanks for the "HoHum" pictures, HiHo! Sorry, but the boy just doesn't make my motor race!

You may be right and Matthew McConaughey may play the Magnum role in a Magnum PI movie but Matthew McConaughey is NOT Magnum! Tom Selleck is Magnum!

Yes...you're probably right. I'm a stubborn old broad!!

[lutherhgillis]

I agree with Agatha that the original four are the only ones who can play thise parts. Unfortunately, to have them play the same parts as sexigenarians and septagenarians would be silly. (I hope I spelled those correctly)

To make a MP movie with other actors would be a jump...

Carmen,

I am realistic because chasing windmills yields nothing but disillusionment. It would be great if 2 + 2 = 5 but it ain't that way, baby!

Do you think people besides us would pay $20 to see 4 old farts play the lead roles in a major motion picture about a carefree PI in Hawaii who tries to live like a 30 year old? I don't think so either...

But then again, what the heck do I know? I'm just a gum shoe from St Louie...

[Agatha]

luther said..."Do you think people besides us would pay $20 to see 4 old farts play the lead roles in a major motion picture about a carefree PI in Hawaii who tries to live like a 30 year old?"

Two things: 1) Maybe this is where expectations go in different directions, luther.

The ORIGINAL premise was a carefree PI in Hawaii who tries to live like a 30-year-old. After all these years...and after 8 seasons of that premise...the movie would NOT be about a carefree PI in Hawaii who tries to live like a 30-year-old. It would be about re-uniting that formerly carefree PI with the friends that were part of his life back then...and some kind of a situation that would allow them to make things right...again...and get the bad guys...again...and work together as a team...again. I still say that age and experience wins out over youth and enthusiasum every time!! And that just because the "action" wouldn't be as physical or as extreme, doesn't mean that our guys can't still get the job done!

2) $20 for a movie???? Has it been THAT long since I've gone to a movie????



PS - 2 + 2 doesn't equal 5? Hmmmmm.

PS again - I'd be "beholden" if one of you nice people would give me a "box" lesson.

[lutherhgillis]

I appreciate what you are saying Ag but realistically, people in general will not go to a nostalgia fest built around Magnum PI and the geriatric years.

Hollywood makes movies to sell tickets, lots of tickets. A MPI movie made today would be a blow up, shoot up, and sex up deal. Not a geratol fest.

Let's face it. Time has marched on since MPI went into moth balls. That is the shear, honest truth. What we would like to see is just not realistic. There are only a few dozen of us at best... Maybe James will fund the budget for a MPI reunion movie?

Peace

[J.J. Walters]

The only chance the orginal cast has is with the small screen. Big screen will never happen with the O.C. (for reasons pointed out by Luther and others). The success of Jesse Stone should be enough to convince "the suits" that a TV movie is viable, and will rake in some advertising dollars!

The big unknown for me is - is it possible to have a big screen release (with a new cast) AND a small screen release with the original cast?

[Agatha]

I know, luther...I know you're right! I just don't WANT you to be right!!

And James...you have a point, too. If they do a big screen Magnum, even I can see that a TV Magnum movie would seem like "too many" Magnum movies.

So HOW are we going to get our guys together in SOME kind of a reunion show?

Sigh...

[N1095A]

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

[Agatha]

What about Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, N1095A?

[ConchRepublican]

I know a lot of people put him down, but they could do far worse for Magnum (Ben Affleck, Nic Cage!?...yikes!)

I agree. Of all the names I've heard, if they are going to "modernize" the franchise/name, he's got the most possibilities.

First, I like him.

Second, I think he's talented. He came to fame not as a beach bum slacker wannabe Woody Harrelson type, but in a serious lead role in A Time to Kill (great book, BTW). I think he has the range to pull off the Magnum slack while being serious as well.

Clooney, Cage, Affleck, they all had the wrong smarmy vibe. He just might be able to pull it off. Felt that way first time I heard it.

Good connection to make HiHo about the torch passing. Don't know how I missed it. I guess i got caught up in the possibility.

[Steve]

I say if not the original cast I could see doing far worse that picking Matthew Mcconaughey. The only big drawback I see is that it has become an inside joke that he seems to find the need to take his shirt off in every movie (ever see Matt Damon's hilarious impression of McConaughey talking to a director about this being a great spot in the movie to take his shirt off)....I still like the guy and I also like George Clooney, but I keep saying use the original cast and pick a great twenty-something actress to play Lily and write a script with Lily living in the guest house, taking care of Higgins and the originals all come back to save some type of predicament she is in.Wala..You have the originals for us fans and a hot draw twenty-something actress (Jessica Alba, Mila Kunis?) to appease the younger demographic.........

[Agatha]

And maybe Lily has some friends...hopefuls who are intereseted in her...and maybe Matthew McConaughey is one of them...and maybe Thomas and TC and Rick make use of their interest to help with the more physical stuff...while showing them what it takes to get the job done...and creating a bond between them at the same time. THEN a Magnum-type show would be reborn and could even go on from there with Lily and her "guys"...or maybe there's a gal or two in there as well...picking up the reins, so to speak...

Hmmm.

If I remember correctly Tom Selleck took his shirt off in an episode or two!!

[N1095A]

What about Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, N1095A?

If age is the issue, Harrison Ford is 3 years older than TS, and he looks it. TS doesn't look anywhere near his age. However, and this is a big however, TS with the exception of the "Three Men And A Baby franchise never was a huge box office draw even in his prime. TS is much more well received on television. I can see the point of producers not wanting to gamble by putting a television cast into a big screen film. It has been done quite successfully in the past. X-files, Stargate, Star Trek come to mind, but as much as we would all love to see it, I don't think we can expect it with MPI. (another) However, I don't see any reason why a small screen MPI with original cast tied in with a film couldn't work. Each could use could use the popularity of the other for promotion.

[VM02]

I for one would be ok with a Matthew McConaughy movie.

I a hundred times prefer an all original cast movie or tv movie or whatever, but I don't think its gonna happen. Hollywood never "got" MPI when it was on and TS has not become the Movie draw that the popularity of the series might have suggested.
I feel like an updated movie might shed a postive light on the series and perhaps there would be some additional propaganda surrounding the release of the movie -books etc - in much the same way as the Lord of the Rings movies enhanced the sale of the books and books about the books.

I am dubious of setting the thing in modern day though. (NO Slight on Veterans of any era intended.) A gulf war vet scenario (higgins as vietnam vet) seems to me to completely lack the emotional punch of the three Vietnam buddies dealing with aftermath --who bring a WWII vet into their circle. My take on Resolutions is that the 8 years of MPI we saw are primarilly the story of TM recovering from or "finding himself" after his Vietnam experience. I also think this is why "Unfinished Business" provides closure to the series, and signifys the end of TMs 8 year ecovery. To make the story one about the Gulf War seems to me to miss a crucial theme of the series, if not THE crucial theme.

[HiHo]

I for one would be ok with a Matthew McConaughy movie.

I a hundred times prefer an all original cast movie or tv movie or whatever, but I don't think its gonna happen. Hollywood never "got" MPI when it was on and TS has not become the Movie draw that the popularity of the series might have suggested.
I feel like an updated movie might shed a postive light on the series and perhaps there would be some additional propaganda surrounding the release of the movie -books etc - in much the same way as the Lord of the Rings movies enhanced the sale of the books and books about the books.

I am dubious of setting the thing in modern day though. (NO Slight on Veterans of any era intended.) A gulf war vet scenario (higgins as vietnam vet) seems to me to completely lack the emotional punch of the three Vietnam buddies dealing with aftermath --who bring a WWII vet into their circle. My take on Resolutions is that the 8 years of MPI we saw are primarilly the story of TM recovering from or "finding himself" after his Vietnam experience. I also think this is why "Unfinished Business" provides closure to the series, and signifys the end of TMs 8 year ecovery. To make the story one about the Gulf War seems to me to miss a crucial theme of the series, if not THE crucial theme.

Ah, that's my thing. Set it in the 80's! Retro is poplular and retaining the Vietnam aspect carries much more resonance...not to mention Higgin's experiences.

Just think about how great the scenes are where Magnum and Higgins discuss/compare war experiences...like in Black on White. Wouldn't be the same in a modern setting.

[IKnowWhatYoureThinking]

I think they would completely screw this up if they tried a modern setting for reasons mentioned previously.