Re: MPI - the movie - worst news EVER

>> http://www.darkhorizons.com/news07/070117f.php

>> 
>> The long rumored "Magnum P.I." movie adaptation is back in the gossip
>> talk again after seemingly dying on the vine last year.
>> 
>> Teletext UK re****ts that "Dodgeball" director Rawson Marshall Thurber
>> has finished his redraft of the script and in a surprise move has
>> selected much of the cast already.
>> 
>> The re****t lists that Matthew McConaughey will play Magnum, Steve Zahn
>> will be his friend Rick, Tyrese Gibson the chopper flying T.C., and
>> William H. Macy as British landlord Higgins.
>> 
>> This is strange as all but Tyrese played somewhat similar roles in
>> 2005's film adaptation of the Clive Cussler adventure novel "Sahara" -
>> a good fun action film which sadly bombed at the box-office.
>> 
>> Also strange - a Magnum without chest hair, blasphemy!! - but at least
>> anyone who has picked up a tabloid mag in the past twelve months has an
>> idea of what McConaughey would look like dressed only in facial hair
>> and running shorts.
>> 
>> The plan is to stick with the idea of Magnum and his friends being war
>> veterans - though Iraq war rather than Vietnam.
>> 
>Sounds like the typical rumor-mill bollocks.  Doesn't hold much water. 
>I seriously doubt Paramount would allow that line-up of actors still 
>under contract for two more Clive Cussler movies.
>

According to Rawson Thurber's website:
http://www.rawsonthurber.com/news.html

"January 24th, 2006
Rawson will be writing and directing the upcoming Magnum, P.I. for
Universal. The tone of the film will be very much in the vein of
Beverly Hills Cop. No moustaches. No short-shorts. No cameos. But lots
of fun."

FWIW...