It has been announced that cult 1980s TV show “MacGyver” is to be remade as a feature length movie. MacGyver ran from 1985-92, and starred Richard Dean Anderson from Stargate: Atlantis and SG-1 as an extremely resourceful secret agent.
Raffaella De Laurentiis, daughter of veteran producer Dino De Laurentiis, is producing the current movie through her Raffaella Prods, along with Martha De Laurentiis and series creator Lee Zlotoff. Dino De Laurentiis is executive producing.

“We think we're a stick of chewing gum, a paper clip and an A-list writer away from a global franchise,” said New Line’s Richard Brener of the project.

In case you've forgotten, MacGyver was an industrious secret agent who always managed to engineer his way - often using materials in his immediate surroundings to make nifty gadgets - out of disastrous situations. Since the show was cancelled in 1992, fans of the scrappy-yet-handsome MacGyver have only had "Saturday Night Live's" MacGruber character, played by Will Forte, to get their DIY thriller fix.

No writer has been hired yet. However the studio hopes to find a script that acknowledges the concept's pop-culture profile yet still makes for a serious and fun adventure movie.

The original show was an American adventure television series, produced in the United States and Canada, about the laid-back, extremely resourceful secret agent MacGyver, played by Richard Dean Anderson. The series was created by Lee David Zlotoff and executively produced by Henry Winkler and John Rich. Film locations included Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and Southern California, California, United States of America.

It ran for seven seasons from September 29, 1985 to January 13, 1992 and was a Monday night staple on the ABC network.