H. Jon Benjamin may play the character on the very popular TV show, but if an Archer movie were to ever make it to screens, Jon Hamm is the actor who executive producer Matt Thompson would want in the lead, so says The Daily Beast.
“It’s Jon Hamm,” says Thompson to the website. “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. Adam 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.”
Adam Reed created the TV series and has written for every episode of the show, which is now in its seventh series. There’s no definitive news if there is a film in the works.
“It’s all up to whatever Adam wants to do, but he and I have definitely talked about it,” Thompson added. “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.”
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