Sam Elliott, Laurence Fishburne, Mickey Rourke join the MacGruber show
The upcoming Peacock series is going to be packed with absolute legends.
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Will Forte’s long-time Saturday Night Live mainstay MacGruber can often be defined by the strength of his antagonists. And we’re not just talking about the Val Kilmer-ish supervillains that everyone’s favorite Ranger/SEAL/Green Beret typically battles against, but pretty much every halfway sane person he runs into. If you are a regular human being, and you are forced to spend more than 30 seconds in conversation with MacGruber, you probably count as an antagonist.
Which is why it’s genuinely exciting to see some of the talent that NBC and Peacock are lining up for the upcoming MacGruber TV show, in addition to a returning Forte, Kristen Wiig, and Ryan Phillippe. Specifically, Variety reports today that Sam Elliott, Laurence Fishburne, and Mickey Rourke have all signed on for the series, where they’ll play MacGruber’s dad, general, and enemy, respectively.
Damn, that sounds like fun.
To be specific, the fantastically mustachioed Elliott will be playing the senior MacGruber, Perry, who has a fractured relationship with his bombastically idiotic son. Rourke, meanwhile, will play bad guy Brigadier Commander Enos Queeth, a mysterious figure from MacGruber’s past who threatens to destroy the world at large. (Does Queeth have something to do with Dieter Von Cunth, Kilmer’s villain from the film? Probably not, but at least Forte and friends’ villain-naming conventions are still firmly intact.)
Our favorite casting detail, though, is the addition of Fishburne as General Barrett Fasoose, who is not only a high-ranking military officer—he’s also the guy who married MacGruber’s ex-wife, Vicki (Wiig), in between the series and the movie. The sheer amount of petulant nonsense that opens the door for is enough to gets us excited for this show all over again. No word yet when the eight-episode series will finally be ready to deliver on all this promised goodness, but it’ll be on Peacock when it does.
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This seems like the perfect weird series to throw onto a streaming service.
“Join Matrix 4? Nah man, I’m gonna do a MacGruber TV show.” -Fishburne
hahaha. “Larry, Byan Fuller wants to make a Jack Crawford TV movie and film it in New Orleans and Space, and the Wachowskis rang to tell me that they have centered the 4th matrix film around Morpheus. You in?” – Agent.“Nah man, I’m gonna do a MacGruber TV show.” – Fishburne.
hahaha.“Larry, Byan Fuller wants to make a Jack Crawford TV movie and film it in New Orleans and Space, and the Wachowski’s rang to tell me that they have centered the 4th matrix film around Morpheus. You in?” – Agent.“Nah man, I’m gonna do a MacGruber TV show.” – Fishburne.
Yeah, it’s pretty weird that he chose to be in a series that hasn’t yet shot instead of being in a movie that finished shooting 6+ months ago.
Came here to joke about how they’re actually making a show from the SNL skit, stayed for how good it actually sounds.
More like a show based off a film based off a skit.
I’m definitely behind on my MacGruber media.
You should check out the movie. It’s one of the funniest films of the past 20 years…
Or, based “on” a film, if we’re speaking English.
MacGruber is legitimately a comedy classic at this point. Probably the funniest movie in the past decade.
Just point at what you want me to fuck!
This is the face of an “Enos Queeth,” if ever I’ve seen one…
Does he get a bird?
i would have preferred: Elliot – the villain; Fishburne – dad; Rouke – general.
The MacGruber movie belongs in the same rarefied air as Wayne’s World and Blues Brothers and this is all very exciting news
Needs more ghost sex. Bring back Maya Rudolph.
Next up: MacGruber Broadway muscial.
I am very much aquiver.
Hey that’s not his deadbeat dad! I’m leaving.*click*Door’s loc—*BOOM*