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'MacGruber': Will Forte, Kristen Wiig reunite in new trailer

By Wade Sheridan   |   Dec. 6, 2021 at 2:04 PM
Will Forte stars in the new trailer for "MacGruber," alongside Kristen Wiig, Ryan Phillippe, Laurence Fishburne and Billy Zane. File Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI Kristen Wiig arrives for the 92nd annual Academy Awards on February 9, 2020. File Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI Ryan Phillippe attends the 1st annual PEOPLE Magazine Awards in December 2014. File Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI Laurence Fishburne attends the premiere of "Ant-Man and the Wasp" on June 25, 2018. File Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI Billy Zane arrives on the red carpet for Netflix's "True Story" on November 18. File Photo by John Angelillo/UPI

Dec. 6 (UPI) -- Will Forte is on a new mission and is reunited with Kristen Wiig in the latest trailer for Peacock's MacGruber.

Forte's MacGruber is taken out of jail by Laurence Fishburne's General Barrett Fasoose in order to take on a dangerous assignment for the U.S. government in the clip released on Monday.

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MacGruber needs to reassemble his team, which includes his former lover, Vicki St. Elmo (Wiig), and Dixon Piper (Phillippe). The team needs to take down MacGruber's old nemesis, Brigadier Commander Enos Queeth (Billy Zane).

"My country has invited me to die for it and I RSVP'd yes queen," MacGruber says after meeting up with Vicki St. Elmo. The pair rekindle their relationship.

MacGruber, based on Forte's MacGyver parody on Saturday Night Live and the 2010 MacGruber film, is coming to Peacock on Dec. 16.

Forte is serving as co-writer, executive producer and co-showrunner on the eight-episode series. John Solomon and Jorma Taccone are serving as co-showrunners, writers, executive producers and directors.