SNL's MacGruber coming to the big screen

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The cast of Saturday Night Live is getting back in the movie business, with the show's recurring character MacGruber set to get the big screen treatment.

A spoof of the hugely popular 1980s TV series MacGyver, each sketch revolves around the title character trapped in a control room trying, and inevitably failing, to diffuse a ticking bomb.

The film will look to expand the premise, with The Hollywood Reporter claiming that the plot will see the character pulled out of retirement as a monk in Ecuador to fight on behalf of his country. His nemesis will be the evil Cunth, who killed MacGruber's bride and now has a nuclear warhead.

The cast will also be going a-list, for as well as Will Forte and Kristen Wiig reprising their roles from SNL, Val Kilmer is apparently in talks to play Cunth and Ryan Phillippe a possibility for Piper, the army officer forced to partner MacGruber.

Jorma Taccone, who created the character and directed most of the skits, will helm, with Relativity Media fast-tracking the feature in the hope that it will hit screens before New Line's own MacGyver feature.