MacGruber movie is sure to be a work of art

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He couldn't survive 30 seconds in an oil refinery, or 30 days on Twitter after the Super Bowl, but Saturday Night Live character and Pepsi pitchman MacGruber (played by Will Forte) is getting his own feature film. Yep, that's right. They've begun production on a full-length MacGruber movie packed with mullets, meta '80s references and … what else could they possibly put in there? Lots of obscenity, if you ask SNL star Bill Hader, who read the script and called it a "hard-R comedy."

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