Kill me now...Jim Carrey as The Six Million Dollar Man

[Khephra]

Six Million Gets Funny

Todd Phillips, who is writing a new script for the upcoming Six Million Dollar Man film, told SCI FI Wire that star Jim Carrey approached him with the idea of playing a funny version of Steve Austin. Phillips, who also wrote and directed the upcoming Starsky and Hutch movie, intends to give a comic spin to the classic 1970s SF TV show. "I don't have this goal as a filmmaker to make '70s shows into movies, but my plan was always to work with great comic actors," Phillips said in an interview. "Jim Carrey obviously is another."

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http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/art-main.html?2004-02/25/11.30.film

[GOPisEvil]

1. First S&H gets made into a comedy, now $6M man?

THESE SHOWS WERE NOT COMEDIES!!!!

[parasim]

8. Of course not.

Nobody says they were. Doesn't mean they wouldn't be hilarious with a Mad Magazine style spoof done to them. If you don't want to see 'em, don't watch 'em.

and if you're a 70's Pop Culture Purist, then quit worrying about how they're trashing the classics. I saw a guy do a nasty cover of Purple Haze, but it'd didn't diminish my respect for Hendrix at all.


> apologies for being a dick about it. <

[PVnRT]

21. I don't know...

Starsky & Hutch WAS pretty stupid - why not just make it into a comedy?

Besides, casting Snoop Dogg as Huggy Bear is just fucking brilliant.

[xcentrik]

2. Ummm, like Lee Majors...

in his damn leisure suit, running in slo-mo, wasn't already self-parody?

[terrya]

3. Enough with the freakin' film versions of television shows!

Enough already!

Is this what Hollywood has come to?

Where is the orginality?

A curious Terry

[Kamika]

4. well

*cough* Gibson *cough*

[terrya]

15. I forgot ego driven vanity projects...

Designed to make the filmmaker, previously noted for idiotic action films, to suddenly look like a serious student of theocracy.

[Kamika]

16. atleast he's trying to do something original

instead of doing shitty movies like charlies angels

[jus_the_facts]

25. the story of Jesus isn't all that original....

...that story has been done to DEATH and resurrected for millennia! :evilgrin:

[frylock]

12. you think it's bad now..

what happens in 30 years? Do they start making movies of the crap that's on TV now? Can we look forward to Will & Grace: The Movie, coming to a theatre near you. Opens Thanksgiving Day, 2020.

[terrya]

14. "Yes, Dear...the Motion Picture"...

Oy, I'm getting a headache....

Terry

[jus_the_facts]

26. the epic brought to the silver screen...."SURVIVOR~ARMAGEDDON"

.....who'll win and who'll be *LEFT BEHIND*:evilfrown:

[GreenPartyVoter]

5. Noooooooo!!!!

[bif]

6. What, is that how much he's geting for his next movie?

I really can't stand Jim Carey.

[mmm]

7. he can get real sickening real fast

i tend to avoid Carey movies

[RFK MLK PW]

9. Please don't die over this.

Just ignore it and maybe it will go away.

[CO Liberal]

10. Things Could Be Worse

They could be considering the thoroughly worthless Adam Sandler for the part.

[bif]

22. We saw "Punch Drunk Love" last night

Our daughter said we should watch it. I'll no longer listen to her reccommendations. What a piece of crap that was. It confirmed that Adam Sandler has no talent whatsoever.

[LoZoccolo]

11. My boss brought up a good point once.

Do you really think all that biotech cost only six million dollars? Even in 1970s dollars?

[HawkerHurricane]

13. Good point.

Perhaps the hardware itself cost 6 mil, but the R+D, installation, the special surgical supplies needed...

[ET Awful]

24. Yeah, but the $643 Trillion in Deficit Spending Man didn't sound right :)

n/t

[Jokerman]

17. 6 Million was just the budgeted amount

After Halliburton was hired as the contractor the cost skyrocketed to 60 billion.

[Ganja Ninja]

19. After Haliburton gets done with him he'll look like...

the Head Detective from the old show In Living Color.

[fob]

23. Now that would make a good premise for it to be a comedy!

<groggy Steve Austin wakes> Wha, what happened?
Well you crashed and were badly injured. In fact you lost your legs, right arm and your eyes and ears were damaged beyond repair. But don't worry. We, uh, "rebuilt" you Steve.

Rebuilt me?

Yeah, of course with bush*s massive budget deficit we only had $6,000,000 to work with. So we had to outsource some parts, but you're "whole" again.

My arm, I can't move my arm!

Oh, yeah, that's one of those outsourcing deals. You have to think in mandarin to get the chinese electronic components to respond. We have a tutor for you, for the next week anyway. You'll also have to learn (fill in languages of several other 3rd world countries where jobs are sent these days).

See! It practically writes itself!

[Arbustosux]

18. My sources tell me that it will not be Carrey

that it will end up being a very inshape Lee Majors

[LynneSin]

20. He passed up the role of Jesus in "The Passion" to be the $6mil man

:shrug: