Fri Feb 1, 2008 — by Rick Marshall

'The Greatest American Hero' Headed to Theaters

Believe it or not, it's a movieeeeee....

To be filed under the heading of "Probably Not Exciting to Anyone But Me," Moviehole.net recently announced that casting for a big-screen version of the classic 1980s television sitcom "The Greatest American Hero" is now underway.

The film's director, Stephen Herek (“Dead Like Me”, “The Mighty Ducks”), has put out a call for high-profile actors interested in playing the parts of Ralph Hinckley and Bill Maxwell. Chris Matheson ("Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey") and Ryan Rowe ("Charlie's Angels") are the writers for the project.

Here's what they're looking for in a Ralph Hinckley:

29-39, an all-around good guy, with boyish handsome good looks, smart, decent, honorable and resilient, Ralph is a high school history teacher in Tempe, Arizona, a bachelor who hasn't yet found the right girl. Selected by a bunch of aliens as the perfect hero to champion the rights of humankind against an evil nemesis, Ralph gets a superhero suit and a rather gruff squire in the form of FBI agent Bill Maxwell - neither of which yield easily to his control. Stuck inside the suit while awaiting for a duel-to-the-death challenge from his sinister opponent, Harve Lundy, Ralph proves to be honest, upright, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean and reverent as he prepares himself to do or die, without losing his Eagle Scout-ish honor or his suit in the process. Oh, and he gets a girlfriend along the way.

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