It's about time!

Folks in Hollywood are moving forward with plans to make a movie based on the television series, Magnum, P.I.

Cult eighties TV show Magnum PI is to be made into a movie, it has been revealed.

The series had a huge following and made Tom Selleck a star as Ferrari-driving Navy intelligence officer-turned-private investigator Thomas Magnum.

In the big-screen Universal Pictures version the storyline will see Magnum search for a missing friend with the help of his former military friends, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

Rawson Marshall Thurber, who will write and direct the film, will apparently stay true to the original tone of the show, which mixed danger and humor, rather than making a spoof.

Magnum was hired by wealthy author and playboy Robin Masters to look after security on the latter's massive Hawaii estate, living in Masters' guest house and driving his sports car. He was helped in his cases by his Vietnam vet buddies,
helicopter pilot TC and club manager Rick.

Paul Soglin, Scott Gunderson and Bob Welch are very excited about this.