Alas, this is not about the old series where a lovely guy saved the day with some gum and a paper-clip.
Nope.
I went looking for a TV calendar in order to check when my siblings could start sending me spoilers about my favourite shows again, and I found a mention of the next MacGyver's first episode.
You see, last year I shipped my own plot bunnies to the Next MacGyver competition. When I got a message telling me that my script ideas weren't selected for the next step, I remember sending an answer wishing them luck and promising to watch the new series (what's not to love about women kicking arses and saving the day with some gum and a paper-clip... and maybe some GPS device to update the concept?).
I quite like my ideas, and I'm somehow glad that I find myself free to develop them without having studio people telling me to change "this, and that, and that... Oh, and maybe that, too".
I hadn't checked the project since last year, but I investigated a bit after reading the première date. Then, I had to dig deeper, because the competition I'd joined was about promoting women and having a female "MacGyver" as the next number 1 in the cast, but I was reading about blokes, and more blokes.
I must admit that I was barely caffeinated, and I briefly thought I'd stumbled upon a different project, but... no.
Shelved is the idea of the next MacGyver being played by a woman; it's all about cunning men saving the world (from inside the US government apparently, and there's one woman around, but she sounds like a right ungrateful, entitled bitch - on paper, at least).
I don't know how the initial project was killed, but I'm not interested in that remake - at all.
I don't know if it's rampant sexism, fear about something new, fear about having too much science (and too many women?) in one show, but I don't care. This "MacGyver" doesn't look interesting or challenging enough.
There's one good thing, though: my own plot bunnies from the competition just hopped ahead in my writing queue.
2 comments:
No RDA no go for me :-) though I did love a Sentinal MacGyver fan fiction cross over, that played on RDA being O'Neill and MacGyver! and made him/them cousins! :-D much fun. a female MacGyver may have been different enough and good enough but imagine them letting a woman be any god and save herself, crivens!
You should post the outlines :-)
Richard was a veeeeeeeeeeeeeery good, lovely, funny, witty, & brilliant MacGyver.
What I liked about the competition was that it wasn't to be a carbon-copy of the old show. They wanted something new, focussing on science, & with female leads (which is what I came up with - not that difficult since I have a lot of strong gals in Muff&Sherly).
It's funny that you should mention my outlines, because I was beginning to think that it could be a good idea to post them... just to have a copy online (who knows how studios recycle things? <-being rhetorical, they'd take sweets from the mouths of babes). ^_~
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