POLL: Magnum, P.I. Motion Picture
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Here's an idea. I got it from watching the promos on the new Knight Rider (which I have no interest in, but they were advertising it as not a "new" Knight Rider but an updated one, like 20 years later).
What if they could do that for MPI and have him have a 24- or 25-year-old son he never knew about? (Wasn't it implied that he was intimate with other women early on in the series so technically he COULD have fathered another child?) For example, have him finally retiring from the Navy and his unknown son shows up for the party at, for example, the KKC. And the son is in the Navy, just graduated from Annapolis and got posted to Pearl Harbor? TC's kids are there, and Thomas V gets involved in some mystery with them as his sidekicks. So it could STILL have TS as TSMIV and have the regulars but not as the sole leads. Appeal to both generations?
Now who can we cast as his son? Does anyone look like a young TS the way Brad Pitt used to look like a young Robert Redford? I know! Josh Groban!! (He CAN act too -- I saw him on a couple of Ally McBeals, and he was good enough.)
Someone else come up with some plotlines with this scenario. I think this has potential . . . .
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What if they could do that for MPI and have him have a 24- or 25-year-old son he never knew about? (Wasn't it implied that he was intimate with other women early on in the series so technically he COULD have fathered another child?) For example, have him finally retiring from the Navy and his unknown son shows up for the party at, for example, the KKC. And the son is in the Navy, just graduated from Annapolis and got posted to Pearl Harbor? TC's kids are there, and Thomas V gets involved in some mystery with them as his sidekicks. So it could STILL have TS as TSMIV and have the regulars but not as the sole leads. Appeal to both generations?
Now who can we cast as his son? Does anyone look like a young TS the way Brad Pitt used to look like a young Robert Redford? I know! Josh Groban!! (He CAN act too -- I saw him on a couple of Ally McBeals, and he was good enough.)
Someone else come up with some plotlines with this scenario. I think this has potential . . . .
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sophia!!
Wouldn't that just be a HOOT! Can we add James Lesure as TC's son and Camille Guaty (and her dimples) (Piper) to be a grown Lily????
Wouldn't that just be SOMETHING????
Now with THAT cast, I just might like the movie.
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P.S. Now we just need to get Hugh Laurie to play Doc Ibold's son, Monk to be a consultant to Hawaii 5-0, along with Chief of Detectives Brenda (Kyra Sedgwick's The Closer) and Denny Crane and Alan Shore to be Robin Masters' lawyers!!
Wouldn't that just be a HOOT! Can we add James Lesure as TC's son and Camille Guaty (and her dimples) (Piper) to be a grown Lily????
Wouldn't that just be SOMETHING????
Now with THAT cast, I just might like the movie.
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P.S. Now we just need to get Hugh Laurie to play Doc Ibold's son, Monk to be a consultant to Hawaii 5-0, along with Chief of Detectives Brenda (Kyra Sedgwick's The Closer) and Denny Crane and Alan Shore to be Robin Masters' lawyers!!
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Tralfaz,
I think that is actually a very good idea! That way, you'd dodge the "who can play Magnum besides Selleck" issue, he could play a supporting or even minor role as her dad, but the story could revolve around a distaff (female) Magnum -- with other Iraq War vets as her sidekicks -- you could even have a female helicopter pilot.
I'm not saying the cast should ALL be female characters (though I wouldn't object to that if it were done right), but you could have a couple, with the plotline being picking up at this time frame instead of trying to re-create the 1980s -- a la the disastrous Starsky & Hutch, for example. That would "salute" the original but still allow for a new scenario (and younger actors to appeal to the Gen-Xers et al.). I wouldn't object to a movie along that line, though I still think TS and all the other guys should have AT LEAST cameos. I think if it were done properly, they wouldn't object to "passing the torch" to worth successors. SelleckLover, you maybe agree? Again, it all depends on a good script and good casting.
Why don't the "powers that be" read our forum! We always have the best ideas on how to do it "right," to please diehard MPI fans, don't you all think? So Tralfaz gets the credit for coming up with the female Magnum idea! The more I think about it, the more I like it.
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I think that is actually a very good idea! That way, you'd dodge the "who can play Magnum besides Selleck" issue, he could play a supporting or even minor role as her dad, but the story could revolve around a distaff (female) Magnum -- with other Iraq War vets as her sidekicks -- you could even have a female helicopter pilot.
I'm not saying the cast should ALL be female characters (though I wouldn't object to that if it were done right), but you could have a couple, with the plotline being picking up at this time frame instead of trying to re-create the 1980s -- a la the disastrous Starsky & Hutch, for example. That would "salute" the original but still allow for a new scenario (and younger actors to appeal to the Gen-Xers et al.). I wouldn't object to a movie along that line, though I still think TS and all the other guys should have AT LEAST cameos. I think if it were done properly, they wouldn't object to "passing the torch" to worth successors. SelleckLover, you maybe agree? Again, it all depends on a good script and good casting.
Why don't the "powers that be" read our forum! We always have the best ideas on how to do it "right," to please diehard MPI fans, don't you all think? So Tralfaz gets the credit for coming up with the female Magnum idea! The more I think about it, the more I like it.
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I simply do not see any reason why there should be a movie called Magnum PI, if it is out of place, out of time and out of core essentatials.
MPI is a state of mind, the original cast undoubtfully contributed to it. The set, the Ferrari (not any Ferrari), Robin's nest, the chopper (not any other one).... remove any of these elements, remove the original guys behind the scene who created the stories, and all you'll end up with, in my opinion, just an average movie. But MPI was not just a TV serie, and that's what makes it so special. So just a movie is just not good enough either. I'll skip.
MPI is a state of mind, the original cast undoubtfully contributed to it. The set, the Ferrari (not any Ferrari), Robin's nest, the chopper (not any other one).... remove any of these elements, remove the original guys behind the scene who created the stories, and all you'll end up with, in my opinion, just an average movie. But MPI was not just a TV serie, and that's what makes it so special. So just a movie is just not good enough either. I'll skip.
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I couldn't have said it better myself. MPI is more than just a tv show, much, much more.Vanity wrote:I simply do not see any reason why there should be a movie called Magnum PI, if it is out of place, out of time and out of core essentatials.
MPI is a state of mind, the original cast undoubtfully contributed to it. The set, the Ferrari (not any Ferrari), Robin's nest, the chopper (not any other one).... remove any of these elements, remove the original guys behind the scene who created the stories, and all you'll end up with, in my opinion, just an average movie. But MPI was not just a TV serie, and that's what makes it so special. So just a movie is just not good enough either. I'll skip.