Back in July it was rumoured that Mark Wahlberg (Transformers: Age of Extinction) was being lined up for a role as Steve Austin in The Six Million Dollar Man, and now Deadline has confirmed that Wahlberg has signed on to the project, who – due to inflation – will be going by the more impressive title of The Six Billion Dollar Man.
Based on the classic TV series starring Lee Majors, The Six Billion Dollar Man is being directed by Peter Berg, who of course worked with Wahlberg on last year’s Lone Survivor. The film will tell the story of “former astronaut Steve Austin who, after a horrific crash of an experimental plane, is saved by doctors when he is fitted with bionic replacements — both legs, his right arm and left eye. With super-human power, he becomes a force to be reckoned with for the government as a secret agent for the Office of Scientific Intelligence.”
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Originally published November 7, 2014. Updated April 13, 2018.
