MacGruber Series Creators on Trying to Get Christopher Nolan to Direct an Episode

With MacGruber blessing our timeline with eight new thirty-minute episodes on Peacock starting this Friday, I recently got to speak with writers/directors/producers/showrunners Jorma Taccone and John Solomon about making the series. As a longtime fan of MacGruber, I’m happy to say the new episodes are fantastic and loaded with scenes that will make you laugh out loud. If you haven’t seen the trailer, the series picks up ten years after the events of the film, where MacGruber (Will Forte) has been locked up in prison for the brutal killing of Dieter von Cunth (Val Kilmer). But when a mysterious villain from his past, Brigadier Commander Enos Queeth (Billy Zane), threatens the world, MacGruber must reassemble his old team, Vicki St. Elmo (Kristen Wiig) and Dixon Piper (Ryan Phillippe), in order to defeat the forces of evil. As you can easily guess, nothing goes according to plan and it’s fantastic to watch. MacGruber also stars Sam Elliott (Perry), Laurence Fishburne (General Barrett Fasoose), Bil