Break out the duct tape and paper clips—MacGyver's coming back for some DIY derring-do at a multiplex near you.
Jerry-rigging what it hopes will be a blockbuster franchise, New Line has snapped up the rights to the classic low-tech secret agent series.
No word on whether the original Angus MacGyver, Richard Dean Anderson, will be back putting his Swiss Army knife and science smarts to good use battling bad guys. The film is still in the drawing-board stages and has yet to find a writer.
MacGyver ran on ABC from 1985 to 1992 and has been widely lampooned for its mullet-headed hero's homemade solutions to thwart villainous plots. Anderson, 59, has even gotten in on the action, playing his former alter ego on The Simpsons (he's Patty and Selma's favorite!) and Saturday Night Live, which currently features the recurring spoof MacGruber, starring Will Forte as MacGyver's long-lost—and woefully inept—son.
Merriam-Webster even added "MacGyverize," a verb meaning "to practically apply scientific or engineering knowledge in the inventive use of common items," and "MacGyverism," a noun meaning "any act or invention characterized by a creative use of objects at hand."
You know, just like we hope New Line's movie is.