Way back in November of 2003 we reported the rumblings of a Magnum P.I. movie that could be in the works. However, in the last couple of years there’s been an eerie sort of silence around the whole thing. At one point, George Clooney was even attached as the hero (which I thought would have been a great choice).
But now that silence is broken and it looks like an actual director has been attached to the project, and it’s none other that Dodgeball (a film that I LOVED) director Rawson Marshall Thurber.
Now I know what some of you are thinking… “PLEASE DON’T TURN MAGNUM INTO SOME STUPID WACKY COMEDY LIKE THEY DID WITH STARSKY AND HUTCH!” I totally agree with you. Not that the movie about Magnum shouldn’t be funny (because the show had laughs).
But the good news is that apparently (according to our friends over at Cinema Blend) Thurber has publicly said he wasn’t to make a “Serious” Magnum P.I film. That bodes well for fans of the show. I still haven’t heard about who will play Thomas Magnum… but I sure hope it’s still Clooney (but it probably won’t be).
