Tom Clancy wanted to make a 'Magnum, P.I.' movie, Tom Selleck reveals

Tom Selleck, left, and Tom Clancy, right, were planning to make a "Magnum, P.I." movie. (Reuters/ AP)

Tom Clancy had magnificent dreams for a “Magnum, P.I.” movie franchise, Tom Selleck revealed in an interview with Yahoo, published on Tuesday, the same day Clancy died in a Baltimore hospital.

Selleck, who starred in “Magnum” in the ‘80s, revealed that he and Clancy had worked together in the ‘90s to craft a “Magnum, P.I.” movie adaptation that never made it to the big screen.

“Tom Clancy is a huge ‘Magnum’ fan,” Selleck told Yahoo. “In the early '90s, he'd done a couple of wildly successful movie adaptations of his books. We got together, and I went to Universal, and I said ‘It's time we could do a series of feature films.’ They were very interested, and I had Tom, who wanted to do the story, and I had this package put together, but Universal's the only studio that could make it, and they went through three ownership changes in the '90s, and I think that was the real window for ‘Magnum.’”

Clancy’s publisher confirmed that the celebrated author died on Tuesday at the age of 66.

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