Mark Wahlberg Is "The Six Billion Dollar Man"

Deadline reports that "Lone Survivor" star Mark Wahlberg and director Peter Berg will reunite for the long in development film adaptation of the 1970s TV series "The Six Million Dollar Man"--called "The Six Billion Dollar Man"--The amount adjusted for 21st century inflation.

The original show followed astronaut Steve Austin (Lee Majors) whose body is rebuilt with cybernetic technology after he received a traumatic injury from an aircraft crash. He becomes a force to be reckoned with for the government as a secret agent for the Office of Scientific Intelligence.

Several writers are said to be circling the gig.

Berg, Sarah Aubrey, Stephen Levinson and Bob Weinstein will produce the pic.

Several attempts have been made to adapt the property before. Leonardo DiCaprio was attached in 2011 with Bryan Singer ("X-Men: Days of Future Past") set to direct. Jim Carrey was linked at one point too. However, the property was stuck in a rights tussle between TV series owner Universal Pictures and The Weinstein Company who own the rights to author Martin Caidin's novel Cyborg on which the show was based.