According to a new report from Variety, Travis Knight, director of Bumblebee has signed on to direct the upcoming Warner Bros. film adaptation of the Six Billion Dollar Man. Mark Wahlberg, who has been attached to the project for several years, is still set to star.
The project has been through development hell over the past few years, including Warner Bros. picking up the rights from The Weinstein Company. The film, which is based on the iconic Six Million Dollar Man television series, will see Wahlberg playing Col. Steve Austin, a pilot who is saved by an experiment that gives him bionic body parts. Back in 2017, Wahlberg told ComicBook.com,
“We finally got the script for The Six Billion Dollar Man,”
“Now that’s not your typical superhero because I will not put on a cape nor a spandex outfit, but the script is amazing. We’ve been developing it for quite some time and finally got it to where we want to go shoot the movie, so hopefully we will shoot in the fall.”
No word on when production may begin for the film.
