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Warner Bros is back on track with its long-in-the-works movie The Six Billion Dollar Man, with Bumblebee director Travis Knight coming aboard to helm the feature film take on the iconic 1970s Six Million Dollar Man TV series.

 

Deadline confirmed Knight is attached as is Mark Wahlberg, who has been with the project through several incarnations to play the lead role made famous by Lee Majors.

 

The current film is now being penned by The Accountant and The Judge scribe Bill Dubuque. Bill Gerber, Steve Levinson and Sue Kroll are producing.

 

Originally, The Six Billion Dollar Man with Wahlberg attached was set up at Dimension Films, before Bob Weinstein had to sell the project to Warners to get working capital for his cash-strapped The Weinstein Company, which eventually ended up in bankruptcy. Warner Bros moved the pic to a June 5, 2020 release date while it looked for a director.

 

Knight is coming off the big success with the Transformers spinoff Bumblebee, which grossed $466.9 million for Paramount after its December 2018 bow and revived the franchise. The founder and CEO of Laika also directed Kubo and the Two Strings, an double Oscar nominee for in 2017.

 

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Mark Wahlberg Explains Why The Six Billion Dollar Man Is Taking So Long

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Mark Wahlberg has done his best to explain why The Six Billion Dollar Man is taking so long. He talked to Collider for the press tour for Spenser Confidential about a number of topics. When the long-awaited project came up, you could see that the action star was in a good mood. He joked that he was going to need to make The Six Billion Dollar Man while he was still young. But, Wahlberg also acknowledged the need to get things absolutely right when adapting a property that people hold dear. Not rushing the process is completely worth it if the finished product ends up satisfying audiences. During his explanation, the actor also used his experience on Uncharted and The Fighter to really hammer home how you can feel that clock ticking by.

 

“By the time it comes out, we’re going to call it 60-year-old 6 Billion Dollar Man,” he joked. “They’ll have to change the title to that. At least then you’ll know why. You know what, it’s one of those things where we just have to get it right. Bill Dubuque is writing the -script now. So, I think we have an amazing idea. We’ll have an amazing screenplay and we’re supposed to be getting it Friday, so I’m thinking this week. Hopefully, we’ll then pick a start date and a release date and go make the movie.”

 

Wahlberg continued, “But, even with Uncharted, I was attached years and years to play Nathan Drake and now I’m playing Sully. You know? Even with The Fighter, I knew there was a ticking clock there. There was that biological clock, so we gotta get going quickly.”

 

Comicbook.com had the chance to speak with the film’s producer Sue Kroll about he project during the press events for Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey. She told our Brandon Davis that things were moving forward, but couldn’t let go of any specifics besides the director’s position on the film. Kroll said, “You just said, it’s Travis [Knight]. You’ll have to stay tuned for that one.” At least that would mean that the film is still on the right track. Screenplay writing going on as of this week has to make people feel a bit more optimistic as well.