With one of the coolest theme songs in TV history (“The Unknown Stuntman”), The Fall Guy is an ’80s series that seems to have been forgotten. Lee Majors starred as Hollywood stuntman/bounty hunter Colt Seavers (is that a cool name or what?). Each week he would track down fugitives and criminals using his stuntman smarts and his GMC 4×4 fitted with a 6-inch lift and 35-inch Dick Cepek off-road tires.
Hollywood likes to look at past TV hits in hopes of striking gold of making a franchise. It didn’t work for The A-Team, but The Fall Guy with its numerous Hollywood celeb cameos could try and establish what HBO’s Entourage did in combining the real with the fake.
Martin Campbell, who most recently directed Green Lantern for Warner Bros., is eyeing this adaptation. Originally created by Glen A. Larson, who also created Battlestar Galactica, Magnum P.I., and Knight Rider, the series starred Majors, Douglas Barr and Heather Thomas. It ran for five seasons beginning in 1981.
Ashley Miller and Zack Stentz (X-Men: First Class) are providing the adaptation’s screenplay and Walter Parkes (Dinner for Schmucks, Sweeney Todd) is producing.
And if you don’t remember the theme song, prepare yourself for awesomeness!
