Saturday Night Live's Will Forte is set to send his bumbling MacGyver wanna MacGruber to the big screen. The film, based on a series of skits written by Forte and SNL writers Jorma Taccone and John Solomon, is also looking to add big name stars Val Kilmer and Ryan Phillippe to the cast. SNL vet Kristen Wiig is also set to co-star. No word on whether or not Richard Dean Anderson will make an appearance, given that he's already been revealed as MacGruber's father in the skits it's almost a certainty.
There's a saying that goes: "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result". Sure, SNL skits have produced a couple of classics, namely The Blues Brothers and Wayne's World, the vast majority have been worthless junk. Why? Because they take one-joke skits best suited to 2-minute spots and try to expand them to 90 minutes. Remember how The Ladies Man died out after the hilarious opening sequence? Coneheads? It's Pat? That godforsaken Night at the Roxbury? Oy! I feel the same way about MacGruber. It's funny sometimes but not enough for a feature length film.
