Another recurring character from Saturday Night Live is jumping the shark by going to the big screen. Will Forte’s MacGruber is being made into a full length theatrical release, and sidekick Kristin Wiig is being dragged along in its wake.
If you haven’t seen the MacGruber sketches, they are a takeoff from the 80’s show MacGyver. MacGyver could get out of any dangerous situation with odds and ends that were available to him. Apparently Michaels has been crafty enough to find enough chewing gum, rope, mind eraser potion to keep studio executives away from the pitch meeting and being able to veto this movie idea, as well as incriminating video tape evidence against the remaining studio execs and this thing is going to be made.
Lorne Michaels, the creator of SNL, has exploited seen “creative genious” before in such movie greats like: The Ladies Man, Coneheads, Superstar, A Night at the Roxbury, and Stuart Saves His Family. None of these works has done very well at the box office, but Michaels gets to see his name in lights, and SNL gets a 90 minute commercial at the expense of movie goers, so hey – why not?
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