Mark Wahlberg Offers an Optimistic Update on His Six Billion Dollar Man Movie
Mark Wahlberg recently shared an exciting update on his long-gestating theatrical remake of the beloved 1970s series The Six Million Dollar Man.
Speaking with Screen Rant on the red carpet for his latest adventure movie, Arthur the King, the actor revealed that his team has just reacquired the rights to the project. “We’ve got the rights again, we’re looking at making that movie – hopefully soon!” he shared. “Again, ticking clock. Thank God, it’s an older guy who they feel like has some real-life experience that makes it worth it for him to be the subject of this experiment.”
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The Six Million Dollar Man originally ran on ABC from 1973 to 1978. The classic series starred Lee Majors as Steve Austin, a NASA astronaut whose body is outfitted with six million dollars worth of bionic enhancements and replacements following a catastrophic crash. The enhancements give him several powers, including super strength, super speed, and supervision. A spin-off series, titled The Bionic Woman, ran from 1976 to 1978.
The Six Billion Dollar Man Is a Decade in the Making
To account for inflation, the upcoming remake will be titled The Six Billion Dollar Man, with Wahlberg’s Steve Austin set to receive the best enhancements the modern times have to offer him. The project was first announced in 2014 with Peter Berg (Lone Survivor) set to direct and filming scheduled to begin in 2015. However, the film suffered some setbacks when Berg departed the project, being replaced by Damián Szifron (To Catch a Killer) in 2015. Production was set to begin in September 2016 with a December 2017 release date.
In December 2017, The Weinstein Company sold the film’s rights to Warner Bros., who announced a mid-2019 release for The Six Billion Dollar Man in April 2018. Unfortunately, Szifron exited the project that May over “creative differences.” In October 2018, the remake was removed from Warner Bros.’ release calendar, throwing into doubt when the project might actually get off the ground. The last major update on The Six Billion Dollar Man came in April 2019 when Travis Knight (Bumblebee) and Bill Dubuque (Ozark) replaced Szifron as director and writer, respectively. However, it is unknown if the two are still attached to the project as of February 2024.
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Mark Wahlberg Provides an Uncharted 2 Update
Besides The Six Billion Dollar Man, Wahlberg has another hotly-anticipated movie in the works that is sure to delight video game fans. The actor recently provided an update on the forthcoming sequel to his 2022 action movie, Uncharted, stating, “I’ve heard lots of different ideas. I know somebody’s written a script, and they’re still working on it, and it would consist of having the mustache the whole entire time. Which completely makes sense; obviously, in that final scene, I have the mustache.” In Uncharted, Wahlberg plays Sully, who is depicted with a mustache in the video game series.
Neither The Six Billion Dollar Man nor Uncharted 2 have release dates yet.
Source: Screen Rant
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