Do not shave the moustache, the series Magnum returns

Cinema 23 October, 2017

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There’s a moment, we will indeed come to believe that Hollywood has no more original idea. Unless it is something generational, gender, kill the father and then do what you want. All that to say that Magnum is coming back.

When we were kids, and we’re talking about between old, that is to say, between those born in the early 80’s and before, it was not necessarily the joy on the television front. We did not even have cable, so Netflix is not even speak, and to watch our quota of tv series, we would spend our weekend with The A is to you, hosted by Bernard Montiel, where we would make phone calls to premium rate to elect the series would be broadcast. Or otherwise, we had the Sunday afternoon, after Michel Drucker and between two grands prix of Formula 1. In short, it was the big lose but at the time no one is complaining, at least it gave us an excuse to go out and have fun with friends. It was not better than today, it was different that’s all.

And one of the great series of our childhood, it is, of course, Magnum, starring Tom Selleck and his moustache, his Ferrari and his hawaiian shirt, which resolved the investigations to the cool with his buddies and did not stop to cum out of the mouth of Mr. Higgins. A series of police relaxation that has been a huge success and that hid well his game since the coating rigolard and relaxes hiding out in reality, is a character particularly dark since Thomas Magnum was a Vietnam veteran and that he represented a certain vision of America désanchantée that was stashed in the islands for not to see the world sink. We’re exaggerating a little of course, but in the background we’re not too far from the truth.

Well imagine that, 30 years later, and in the wake of the remakes ofthe Hawaii State Police , and MacGyver, the channel to CBS just ordered a great big reboot of the series with the same show runners as the series mentioned above, Peter Lenkov and Eric Guggenheim. This new version know of course, a few adjustments since this time, Magnum will be a former Navy Seal, a veteran of Afghanistan, who becomes a private detective in Hawaii in the company of Juliet Higgins, former agent of MI-6. A redraw is necessary, therefore, for a project that has, for the moment, still no casting announced or release date set. A project that we will have to wait for a look curious, if not actually eager.