MacGruber gets the gang back together in the first full trailer for Peacock series
Set ten years after the 2010 film, the show premieres December 16
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MacGruber is back. Peacock just released the first full trailer for the new, eight-episode comedy series, set ten years after the feature film that flopped both at the box office and with critics.
The show opens with MacGruber (Will Forte) still in prison for killing Dieter Von Cunth (played by Val Kilmer) at the end of the film. He’s spent his time under incarceration as a “problem inmate,” getting into fights with other men in the yard.
But when General Barrett Fasoose (Lawrence Fishburne) needs someone to go on a “suicide mission,” he springs MacGruber from prison so he try to can save the day by taking down Brigadier Commander Enos Queeth (Billy Zane). MacGruber rounds up his old team—love interest Vicki St. Elmo (Kristen Wiig) and right hand man Dixon Piper (Ryan Phillipe)—to give him a helping hand.
This being MacGruber, the show brings a mix of action, comedy, and gross out sexual moments. When MacGruber promises Vicki some R&R, he clarifies what type he means—“ramming and rimming.”
The series also stars Sam Elliott as Perry, Joseph Lee Anderson as Major Harold Kernst, and Timothy V. Murphy as Constantine Bach. Mickey Rourke originally signed on to the series as Queeth, but seems to have exited the project.
The original film made only $9.3 million on a $10 million budget, but gained a bit of a cult following in the ten years since its release. The franchise was originally based on a recurring Saturday Night Live sketch of the same name, which was more of a straight up MacGyver parody (Forte couldn’t have predicted that CBS would actually reboot MacGyver in 2016).
The show aired nine installments of the sketch, and in 2009 Pepsi even tapped the character for its Super Bowl ad. Betty White played MacGruber’s grandma in the last ever sketch; maybe she’ll reprise her role for the series.
MacGruber premieres on Peacock on December 16.
31 Comments
Is this something people wanted?
There are dozens of we Will Forte fans — DOZENS!!
still waiting for the last man on earth to be picked up again…
Christopher Nolan did, at least. And me. That makes at least two.
I mean it’s the cock so no.
People don’t get that MacGruber was one of the most important films ever made. I mean, they just don’t get it man.
Watched the movie for the first time since it came out the other week. It’s both painfully funny and painfully unfunny from scene to scene. One of the weirdest lead performances in a comedy I’ve seen, worth watching. Always been hot and cold on Will Forte, so it’s kinda interesting having both reactions over one movie. *Wasn’t meant as a reply to you but whatever, surprised I can even load this site at this point.
I showed this to my son and he was immediately enthralled with the humor. This was one of the greatest under the radar movies ever. KFBR392
You know how some people look like their names? He really looks like a “MacGruber”.
Classic MacGruber.
How Stella Got Her Grube Back
Really having a hard time with Philipe saying “Calvary” instead of “Cavalry.” It’s not easy out here for us pedantic fussbudgets.
So I wasn’t the only who heard that-crossed my mind I may be developing dyslexia of hearing. Or whatever the equivalent of that is..
Fun fact, most dyslexia is of the auditory variety.
Maybe he was asking for some fundie Baptists to come help them?
Loved the SNL sketches but thought the movie just dragged when it tried to draw it out. It doesn’t help that the whole point of the character is that he’s always going to be a piece of shit who gets everyone killed. How do you make a character arc out of that?
Damnit Peacock! Stop making me want you!
“Peacock: Come for MacGruber, stay for old Columbo and Murder, She Wrote”
I actually stayed for old Rockford Files.
A great call as well! (As long as that call doesn’t go to Jim’s answering machine.)
I hit play with only the grinchiest of intentions, but “Time to go make some widows” is a helluva line.
If this takes off it’s only a matter of time before “Stallooney” gets made…EDIT: Of course I meant “Rambony”…
THIS FALL – Stallone puts the “old age” back in cold rage.
Wait, Peacock’s tag line is “Can’t Not Watch”? An ad company was actually paid good money to come up with that.
Presumably the same people who came up with “Peacocktober”
Probably the same clownshoes who came up with “Nobody doesn’t like Sara Lee.”
At first I was surprised Ryan Phillipe came back.Then I remembered, like Billy Zane, he’s easy to get cause no one wants him in projects anymore.
This is what they canceled AP Bio for? Really?
I like AP Bio a lot. I would slit the throats of everyone involved with AP Bio for a six minute MacGruber webisode.
It kills me Val Kilmer isn’t/can’t be in this.
You really should have ended this article slightly prematurely with a large explosion.