'Archer' Producers want Jon Hamm for a Feature Film
The producers of FX's hilarious animated spy series have revealed their pick for a live-action Archer portrayal, telling The Daily Beast that they very much hope to make a big screen adaptation of the series.
Executive producer Matt Thompson didn't hesitate when asked about the leading man. “It’s Jon Hamm. If Archer goes live-action, I do believe it will be Jon Hamm. Maybe you could do it with Jon Benjamin’s voice coming out of him? I don’t know. [Series creator] Adam [Reed] is always like, ‘I don’t know if I want the movie to be live-action because I want it to be Jon Benjamin!’
"But if it is live-action—and if it is not Jon Benjamin—it is our greatest hope that it would be Jon Hamm. I can say that with confidence.”
Thompson confirms that no film would happen before the end of the series. “It’s all up to whatever Adam [Reed] wants to do, but he and I have definitely talked about it. I think we talk about it once every two years. We vacillate between if you do it, why are you doing the TV show? And should it be live-action, or should it be cartoon?
"The talk is there, we just still haven’t decided. I don’t think there will be a movie before the last episode of Archer airs on TV. I don’t think we’ll make a movie before the series finishes.”
The series has yet to be renewed for an eighth season.
Source: Collider
