Seattle sends two to Hollywood to create the next 'MacGyver'

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

I guess white guys are out of style these days. So lets ruin what was a true childhood hero and has motivated me to never leave home without a multitool.

He fended off a sulfuric acid leak with chocolate. He used a rosary and branches to make a catapult. He made a torpedo out of a beer keg. And now he will be a she.

Efforts are underway to revive '80s pop-sensation "MacGyver" into a modern show featuring all the engineering and science that duct tape and a Swiss army knife can handle. But to make the show a new entity that will stand on its own, creators are casting the lead character as a woman and two Seattleites could be in line to help create modern, near-impossible feats for the new MacGyver to tackle.

"I am a geek. I'm not going to remotely hide that," Nao Murakami told KIRO Radio's Josh Kerns.

Murakami is one of two finalists in a competition organized, in part, by the show's original creator Lee Zlotoff. In an online video, Zlotoff asks fans to send in science-centric plots and character ideas.

Just as the MacGyver of the '80s inspired many to learn engineering and science, the new MacGyver will aim to inspire young women to enter the fields of science, technology, and engineering.

Murakami is a PhD candidate at the University of Washington. Craig Motlong, another Seattle local and a creative director at an advertising agency, also made it as a finalist. They will compete next week in Beverly Hills to get their ideas into the new show. The top five ideas, out of 12, will earn their creators $5,000 each, and a chance to consult on the show.

"One of the areas my research can be applied to is to, one day, bring a human to Mars, Jupiter, the asteroid belt and beyond," Murakami said. "So that's the kind of research that I do."

Murakami's background and the cause of encouraging more women to engage science motivated her to submit her idea.

"Hollywood media, a lot of times the scientist or nerds, they are portrayed as very stereotypically dorky, or they are somehow overly-sexualized. I'm trying to sort of break that stereotype," she said.

To break that stereotype, Murakami proposed a female lead with a background in artificial intelligence and bio-mechanics who creates an android named Alex. In the meantime, criminals steal a massive computer that has stored the minds of the world's greatest scientists. Those criminals then use that computer to cause quite a fuss.

"I had to write a plot line, which is basically a three-sentence summary of the show, similar to what you would see on Netflix show descriptions," Murakami said. "And I also wrote a summary of a pilot episode."

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[Webster]

*looks over towards Liberty & deadpans* What d'ya expect from Hollywood, to stick w/convention? FWIW, it sounds like they're gonna' do a reboot of the series, so let's at least see what happens first before passing judgment.

 

[DrLeftover]

Think about it, if the new one is going to be a girl, she'll have to be a lesbian.

 

[MrDawn]

I'll pass.

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

Think about it, if the new one is going to be a girl, she'll have to be a lesbian.

No, no, no she we will be a transgender pretending to be a guy that sleeps with women.

 

[DrLeftover]

Yeah. That.

Oh, and she'll be a black guy that is pretending to be a white woman that only sleeps with black women who are really left handed vegetarian Eskimo ... .... ...

 

[Webster]

Think about it, if the new one is going to be a girl, she'll have to be a lesbian.

The law of averages being what it is, I'd bet they'll be able to find a nice, straight actress for the part...

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

Yeah. That.

Oh, and she'll be a black guy that is pretending to be a white woman that only sleeps with black women who are really left handed vegetarian Eskimo ... .... ...

Now that might even be entering to watch despite the fact they are destroying one of my favorite childhood heroes. LOL!

 

[Webster]

Now that might even be entering to watch despite the fact they are destroying one of my favorite childhood heroes. LOL!

How are they destroying it, if I may ask?

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

How are they destroying it, if I may ask?

It's like making Dirty Harry a woman. It's like making the flash a woman. Or remaking the original aliens and turning the Sigourney Weaver role into a mans role. Turning captain kirk into a woman in the next Star Trek movie. Remaking ghost buster and making them all women. Wait! To late on that one already ruined. Well you get the idea.

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

Or, or! Make Wonder Woman a transgender guy!

 

[Webster]

It's like making Dirty Harry a woman. It's like making the flash a woman. Or remaking the original aliens and turning the Sigourney Weaver role into a mans role. Turning captain kirk into a woman in the next Star Trek movie. Remaking ghost buster and making them all women. Wait! To late on that one already ruined. Well you get the idea.

Or, or! Make Wonder Woman a transgender guy!

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

But even he knows i am right.

 

[Webster]

But even he knows i am right.

In the end, it doesn't matter what I think, it doesn't matter what you think and it certainly doesn't matter what the Man above thinks; in the end, only one thing is going to decide its' fate....ratings. Generate good enough ratings and the show will survive; otherwise, it won't.

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

Can only hope it crashes and burns.