In July, tracking-board.com claimed the star (Wahlberg) and the director (Berg) of Lone Survivor would re-team for a film based on The Six Million Dollar Man, aka The Bionic Man. Today, Deadline has confirmed that report.
Berg will direct and Wahlberg is attached to star in the film about former astronaut Steve Austin who, after a horrific crash of an experimental plane, is saved by doctors when he is fitted with bionic replacements — both legs, his right arm and left eye. With super-human power, he becomes a force to be reckoned with for the government as a secret agent for the Office of Scientific Intelligence.
When the 1970s television series The Six Million Dollar Man made its debut six million dollars was a lot of money to spend rebuilding a man with cybernetic technology. Now that it is 2014 Mark Wahlberg will be known as The Six Billion Dollar Man. Inflation, it's a killer.
The Six Million Dollar Man television series, which starred Lee Majors, was loosely-based on Martin Caidin's best-selling sci-fi novel Cyborg. The show proved to be so popular that it generated a spinoff, The Bionic Woman, which starred Lindsay Wagner.
In the past, there were several unsuccessful attempts to adapt the show into a film. The most recent attempt was in 2011 when Leonardo DiCaprio and Bryan Singer circled the project. At one point screenwriter-director Kevin Smith wrote a screenplay. He later adapted his screenplay into a comic book, "The Bionic Man." It was published by Dynamite Comics.
The Six Million Dollar Man is an American television series about a cyborg working for the OSI starring Lee Majors as Steve Austin. The show was based on the novel Cyborg by Martin Caidin. It was initially aired on the ABC network for five seasons between 1974 to 1978, following three television pilot movies in 1973. The series spawned a spinoff, The Bionic Woman, in 1976 and was also the subject of three made-for-television reunion films in the 1980s and 90s. - bionic.wikia
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