Fancast: The Big Picture

Yes, you read that right, The Greatest American Hero is set to start shooting a movie adaptation in July, with Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure director Stephen Herek at the helm. So speaks the Moviehole.

Any of you remembering the days of 80s white-boy afros, as pictured above, will recall the TV show with the big-hit theme song (Believe it or not, I'm walking on air, I never thought I could feel so free-hee-heeeeee! Flyin' away on a wing and a prayer, who could it be? Believe it or not, it's just meeee... Just like the light of a new day, it hit me from out of the blue, breakin' me out of the spell I was in, makin' all of my wishes come truuuuuuuue! Okay I'll stop now) that captured imaginations around the globe before being cancelled three seasons later. It was the story of a high school teacher who was chosen by aliens to save the human race, and he was given a superhero costume that granted amazing superhuman powers. Trouble is, he lost the instruction manual (doh!) and thus finds much in the way of comedy by flying into walls and discovering new powers accidentally. The great Robert Culp played FBI agent Bill Maxwell, who was roped into trying to guide the stumbling Ralph Hinkley (William Katt) through his superhero career.

So, yes, a comedy about a bumbling hero might just do well in this, the Spider-Man age. So it falls to us to figure out what "names" they should get that fit the casting description: “29-39, an all-around good guy, with boyish handsome good looks, smart, decent, honorable and resilient," I like that they're not looking for guys like Paul Walker, the antithesis to acting.

I'll start the campaign right now. Alex Winter. Bill S. Preston, Esquire. He could use the work, Herek's worked with him before, he's far more talented than Keanu Reeves, and chances are he's the right age and could easily have a blonde afro by now.

Hell, he had the afro back then! Get crackin' on this, Herek! Remember your roots!