Mr. Magoo

Mr. Magoo (1997)

You won't believe your eyes.

Mr. Magoo, a man with terrible eyesight, gets caught up in a museum robbery.

Date of release
1997-12-25
TMDB
4.5 / 10 (436)
Runtime
1h 27m
Genres
Comedy, Family
Director
Stanley Tong Gwai-lai

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: Vancouver

Mr. Magoo is a 1997 American slapstick comedy film directed by Hong Kong film veteran Stanley Tong and written by Pat Proft and Tom Sherohman. Based on UPA's cartoon character of the same name, it was produced by Walt Disney Pictures, and stars Leslie Nielsen as the title character, alongside Kelly Lynch, Matt Keeslar, Nick Chinlund, Stephen Tobolowsky, Ernie Hudson, Jennifer Garner and Malcolm McDowell.

Production

In the late 1980s, Henry G. Saperstein of UPA, the original owners of Mr. Magoo, announced that the film was set for development at Warner Bros. Pictures, with Steve Tisch producing, acquiring the rights to produce its first feature. In October 1995, it was announced Disney was in talks with Leslie Nielsen to star in a live-action adaptation of Mr. Magoo. However, it was stuck at development limbo once that never came into reality.

Producer Ben Myron had been negotiating with Stanley Tong on doing an unrelated John Woo-type action film until Saperstein caught a screening of Tong's Rumble in the Bronx with Saperstein liking the inclusion of action and comedy and feeling Tong's style would work well with Mr. Magoo.

Filming lasted from March through September 1997. The film was shot in Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil, Argentina and Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, while the scenes in the museum were filmed in the lobby of the Central Branch of the Vancouver Public Library. The animated sequences were produced by Creative Capers Entertainment and Yowza! Animation, a studio based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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