Summary

• Mark Wahlberg shares an update on his plan to remake The Six Million Dollar Man as a movie, revealing he and his producing partners just regained the rights.
• The project has shifted through multiple hands since the '90s, with Wahlberg having been attached since 2014.
• While thankful the story allows him to still be right for the part, Wahlberg notes that time to make the movie is running out.

Mark Wahlberg has given a fresh update on his plans for The Six Billion Dollar Man, a remake of the classic '70s television show The Six Million Dollar Man. Following the story of a test pilot turned into a cybernetically enhanced secret agent, plans to reboot the property as a movie had been in motion as far back as the 1990s. Since then, the project shifted through multiple hands, with Wahlberg originally coming on board back in 2014. Most recently, a report suggested the intended remake still does not have a studio attached, despite the star’s continuing confidence in the project.

Speaking exclusively with Screen Rant on the red carpet for his latest adventure movie, Arthur the King, Wahlberg clarified where the project is currently sitting and expressed his continued desire to see it made. Revealing that they have just recently regained the rights to remake The Six Million Dollar Man, he is thankful that the character of Colonel Steve Austin is “an older guy who they feel like has some real-life experience.” Check out his comments below:

We've got the rights again, we're looking at making that movie - hopefully soon! 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.

Should Mark Wahlberg’s Six Billion Dollar Man Go Back To The First Reboot Plan?

Originally based on Martin Caidin's 1972 novel Cyborg, The Six Million Dollar Man stands as one of the most influential television series of the 1970s. Spanning a total of five seasons and six television movies, the show would also inspire the 1976 spinoff series The Bionic Woman starring Lindsay Wagner. Yet while that show would receive its own television remake courtesy of the short-lived 2007 reboot series of the same name, it is curious that it has taken as long as it has for The Six Million Dollar Man to follow suit.

Of course, this delay is not due to any lack of effort. For decades, various filmmakers, screenwriters and actors have all been associated with a potential Six Million Dollar Man reboot at one point or another. However, long before Wahlberg was first tapped to play Steve Austin, a very different Hollywood personality almost put his own distinct stamp on the property.

Among the various reboot attempts, comedian Jim Carrey even pitched his own Six Million Dollar Man movie idea that would have been helmed by Joker director Todd Phillips.

Kevin Smith, the director best known for his Clerks and Jay and Silent Bob movies, was one of the first people to try his hand at a reboot for Universal Pictures back in 1995. While his movie never came to , he later adapted his unused script into a 10-issue comic book series dubbed The Bionic Man. With Smith having more recently revived another iconic pop-culture property from decades past via Netflix’s Masters of the Universe: Revolution, perhaps Wahlberg may be tempted to call upon Smith for advice on his own plans for The Six Billion Dollar Man.