Posted on 09/23/2016 1:09:37 AM PDT by Ciaphas Cain
EXCLUSIVE: A famous 1980s title is eyeing a comeback. ABC has nabbed Magnum, a sequel to the classic series Magnum P.I. that starred Tom Selleck, with a script commitment plus substantial penalty. The project, from Leverage creator John Rogers and Eva Longoria’s UnbeliEVAble Entertainment, will keep the fun, action-packed style of the original as it follows Magnum’s daughter, Lily “Tommy” Magnum, who returns to Hawaii to take up the mantle of her father’s PI firm. She and her tribe of friends mix tropical beaches with the seedy underbelly of international crime and modern espionage, even as she tries to unravel the mystery of the blown spy operation that ended her career in Navy Intelligence.
Rogers will write the script and executive produce through his Kung Fu Monkey banner alongside UnbeliEVAble’s Longoria and Ben Spector and Kung Fu Monkey’s Jennifer Court. Universal TV, which owns rights to the original series and where UnbeliEVAble is based, is the studio.
Longoria and Spector, whose UnbeliEVAble is under an overall deal at Universal TV, looked at the studio’s catalog for titles that could be suited for reboot. They identified Magnum P.I. as particularly viable and relevant, and then Rogers unlocked a way in with Thomas Magnum’s daughter that he took custody of in the show’s finale. While the trio felt that rebooting the series with another Thomas Magnum would be daunting, focusing on his daughter was an organic way to update the franchise.
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Will she have a mustache?
I believe, BTW, that in the last show, we all sort of "assumed" what Magnum knew, ie, Robin Masters was indeed Higgins.
But the they turned the knife a bit to leave us hanging, at least a possibility that he was not.
I think you have a point; there doesn't seem to be much more that could be exploited from the old show, other then a few "twists" on the Higgins-Magnum relationship.
As an aside, I actually have all the shows on DVDs and have really enjoyed it. Like so many series, you can really appreciate how the ensemble started to work together as a team, each falling into their roles and character. A great show for the '80s', and it still entertaining to watch.
Personally, I'd love to see a one-time "mini-movie" that kind of ties it all together, kind of a "30 years later" thing, and then lets it go. I'd watch that!
Another show, actually a precursor to Magnum PI, was ""Tales of the Gold Monkey" 1982-3 I think. It featured a just before WWII ex-Flying Tiger, who flew a Grumman Goose in the South Pacific.
It had a "Indiana Jones" flavor, and actually had a few characters that were featured on Magnum PI.(Marta DuBois-Magnums wife, Jeff MacKay-"Mac", and John Hillerman-Higgins, of course!) I think it was a "one and done" kind of a series with 22 episodes and never went further. Check it out!
I believe the new “Longmire” season begins on Monday.
Just got an email from Netflix that it is available today. Yay!
Have you seen Wynonna Earp?
The remake of Hawaii 5-0 is decent. I will hold judgement until I see pictures.
Stephen Collins and the jack russell with the eye patch.
Will his daughter have a mustache?
A bit of trivia: one reason CBS okayed Magnum is because it was set in Hawaii, and the network had invested a lot of money in production facilities for Hawaii 5-0, which had just finished its 12-year run. Rather than have the soundstages sit empty, the network simply leased them Magnum production team. Of course, the network also had reason to believe the series would be a hit; Tom Selleck was a hot property in those days, and they knew he would bring in a lot of (female) viewers.
The mini-movie idea sounds interesting. Magnum was a SEAL in Viet Nam in-show, and the new show has his daughter apparently in Navy Intelligence. They could tie the thing together by having some operation that Magnum was part of that was “off the books” come back to bite him hard:
His daughter has just been dumped from the Navy due to her own blown operation, and comes home to stay with Dad for a while, and Magnum introduces her to the old gang and even gets back into the detective business for a bit, mostly working cases for the wealthy and powerful on the island, now that he has a younger helper to do all the legwork. Everything is going great, when Magnum’s past resurfaces and kills him. The daughter then discovers that there’s some kind of link between her own op and the one that led to Magnum’s death, which is what draws her into trying to uncover the real story. She still has a few open cases, which she continues to work at, and finds that some of her clients have connections she can leverage to get additional information for her own mystery.
The show writers can either use the mystery of Magnum’s death as the main arc, so that when the show eventually winds down they can have the daughter discover the secret, thus vindicating herself and getting closure on her father’s death, or they can have her resolve that arc in the first season or two, but have it so that solving that mystery reveals a rabbit hole of other criminality involving national-level spy/intelligence agencies so that she always has “big” things to solve, while still working mundane detective cases in Hawaii (which occasionally turn out to have connections to the “big” world she works on herself.
I’d watch that show.
Female Magnum
Female Van Helsing
Female Earp
Hollow-wood has a pattern they seem to be using for new programming.
Maybe they can have TC’s daughter fly their helo, too.
In the early 80’s CBS couldn’t have hit more close to home with me and my brother than with this one. He was every bit AJ with the izod shirts, sporty car and hair and I was more like Rick with the camo and a truck guy.
Noooooo! Don't kill him! Ok maybe let us think he's dead.....
yeah...yeah! That's it! We THINK he's dead...but in reality he isn't.....he is hidden away on some island somewhere......
Soitonarly. Just announce that Magnum's daughter has become a transman
I read it that Longoria’s company is partnering with another company to produce the series:
It says:
“The project, from Leverage creator John Rogers and Eva Longoria’s UnbeliEVAble Entertainment,”
Longoria apparently owns a company named after herself UnbeliEVAble Entertainment. The success or failure will either hurt or help the further development of her company.
Because he is on Blue Bloods.
:Sigh:
They were so cute.
Yeah, all 4 sets of them.
LOL
Few ever noticed that they were male and female, despite their names.
I noticed every time a scene changed and a different Dobe was standing in.
:)
http://magnum-mania.com/Characters/Zeus_Apollo.html
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