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Uncategorized Tuesday, November 13th 2012 at 5:45 pm

Five Reasons We’re Pumped for a James Wan MacGyver Movie

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We’ve heard rumors about a MacGyver movie for a while now, but Variety is reporting that Saw director James Wan is in talks to direct the project. Wan might seem like an odd choice to take the helm of a MacGyver movie since the classic television show is about a pacifist trying to save the world through science and quick thinking, and not about gruesome murders and houses full of sadistic traps, but we have our reasons for thinking Wan is a great pick.

Any time Hollywood tries to resurrect a franchise of decades past the Internet works itself into a fit, but we really think this time it could be different. Here’s why.

  1. Believability – MacGyver was a great television show, nay– the greatest television show — but it did manage to cross the line into the ridiculous a few times, like when Mac builds a laser out of some old artifacts. Saw was over-the-top in gore, but it was believable. You really can handcuff Cary Elwes to a pipe. (DO NOT ATTEMPT) Maybe Wan can keep the producers of the movie away from anything too outlandish.
  2. Improvised Traps — The elaborate traps in the Saw franchise already seem like something MacGyver might create if he decided to give up his non-violent ways and go on a murder spree. So although the two seem very different at first, they at least have that in common.
  3. Credibility — Sadly, it seems like a lot of people have forgotten about MacGyver or think that it was anything less than the masterful achievement in storytelling that is was. This needs to be remedied, and maybe Wan is the guy to do it. There’s already some buzz about his upcoming film The Conjuring, and he could parlay that into a big comeback for everyone’s favorite mulleted secret agent.
  4. He’s not Michael Bay — MacGyver had enough explosions. We don’t need any more, thanks.
  5. The potential for crossover — This one’s a long shot, but it would be insane to see a Freddy vs. Jason style movie that puts MacGyver up against Jigsaw. This would also be true of MacGyver vs. Kevin McCallister from Home Alone, or MacGyver vs. Data from Goonies. Please. Someone make those happen.

Those are our reasons for being pumped for this deal. What are yours?

(via Variety)

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  • Anonymous

    I actually thought the first saw was a good movie. It was some crazy sick guy who had some “rules” that he himself broke throughout the movie. The others turned into torture (for both viewers and actors) based around the rules that we all learned weren’t important in the first.

    Sadly, I don’t think the mullet will make the cut (te-he).