Sixty years after the original show premiered, someone at Paramount has finally decided Hawaii Five-O deserves a shot on the big screen. And they've handed it to the director who just turned Spider-Man into box office history.

Deadline broke the news first: Destin Daniel Cretton, hot off Spider-Man: Brand New Day, is attached to direct a Hawaii Five-O feature, with Chris Bremner (Bad Boys for Life) writing the script. Deadline also reported Noah Oppenheim, who wrote Jackie, is working on the screenplay alongside Bremner. Variety confirmed the project separately, describing it as still in early development, with plot details under wraps.

The package, per Deadline, was put together by Entertainment 360's Guymon Casady in partnership with the estate of series creator Leonard Freeman. It landed at Paramount first because of the studio's history with both the original run and the CBS remake. Paramount itself hasn't commented.

What nobody's confirmed yet is whether this movie has anything to do with the 2010 CBS reboot that ran for a decade. Just Jared flagged that as the open question fans actually care about. No word on whether Alex O'Loughlin, Scott Caan, Daniel Dae Kim or Grace Park are anywhere near this, and Variety notes there's no indication so far that any of them are returning. So this could be a clean restart, drawing straight from Jack Lord's original McGarrett rather than the modern version.

A quick refresher for anyone who needs it. The original Hawaii Five-O ran on CBS from 1968 to 1980, with Jack Lord as detective captain Steve McGarrett running an elite state task force out of Honolulu, and James MacArthur as his partner Danny Williams. "Book 'em, Danno" became one of the more quoted lines in American TV history. The 2010 remake kept the bones but modernised the cast and the crime-of-the-week format, and closed out its tenth season in April 2020.

Deadline also points out this isn't the first time someone's tried to get McGarrett onto a cinema screen. The late George Litto, who represented Freeman, spent years chasing a movie version, but rights tangles with CBS kept killing it, which is partly how the 2010 series ended up happening instead of a film.

Cretton's stock has never been higher. Spider-Man: Brand New Day has pulled in $924 million domestically and $2.4 billion worldwide since its July 31 release, and it's within striking distance of overtaking The Force Awakens as the highest-grossing release in North American history. He's also got Shang-Chi, Short Term 12 and The Glass Castle on his résumé, plus a Naruto adaptation and the next Spider-Man instalment reportedly on his plate. Whether Hawaii Five-O actually gets a release date, or even a cast, is still anyone's guess.