Affleck to star as Magnum PI?

Producers of the big screen adaptation of cult TV show Magnum PI are keen to cast Ben Affleck as the famous Hawaiian private investigator.

Producers of the big screen adaptation of cult TV show Magnum PI are keen to cast Ben Affleck as the famous Hawaiian private investigator.

Charles Floyd Johnson, one of the producers of the original 1980s TV series, insists the Daredevil star would be perfect for the mustachioed role after Tom Selleck held out too long to reprise the part.

Johnson hints Affleck would be his first choice to play the lead but, regardless of the final casting, he tells moviehole.net: "I think it will be wonderful.

"Unfortunately it won't star Tom. He was asked to do six or eight TV movies and at that time he really wanted to do it as a feature, so he held out on it and probably now they will consider him too old to do it."

Johnson names hot Hollywood producer Brian Grazer as the man behind the movie adaptation.

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