Meet the new MacGyver
X-Men star Lucas Till to play a twenty-something MacGyver in a reimagining of the 1980s action series.
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Whatever you do, don’t tell Patty & Selma…
X-Men star Lucas Till, has been confirmed as the new-look MacGyver, a CBS reimagining of the 1980s action series starring Richard Dean Anderson.
In the new version a twenty-something MacGyver gets recruited into a clandestine organisation where he uses his knack for solving problems in unconventional ways to help prevent disasters from happening.
Joshua Boone will play Gunner, MacGyver’s best friend from high school, while George Eads plays Lincoln, a man who could easily be written off as an eccentric conspiracy theorist, but is a legit government employee with great capability for compassion.
Paul Downs Colaizzo will write and exec produce with Michael Clear, Lee Zlotoff, James Wan and original producer Henry Winkler, who returns for the remake. David Von Ancken will direct the pilot and serve as an exec producer.
Source: Variety
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Are we even going to get to see this in Aus
On TEN.
Aunt Selma has one hour to live!
… sorry… had to get a Simpsons reference in!
That almost looks like Christopher Egan.
Loved MacGyver
The original MacGyver was a product of a time when the US still widely believed science & engineering were the path to the future. Popular Mechanics & Popular Science were still on the shelves, scientists were curing disease & protecting the country with exciting-sounding chemicals & sci-fi-like gadgetry, a grease-stained mechanic could still fix your car – and MacGyver could do it all with a paperclip, chewing gum (with wrapper), and some boric acid.
Rebooting it now in a time when science denial runs rife, knowledge and practical experience run a distant second to Googleability, and truth is subjective and subservient to popular opinion? Good luck with that…
No no no no no no no! They can’t wreck MacGyver as well! Where are all the original ideas? Why remake everything?
I’d like someone do a ratio of successful reboots of old shows to unsuccessful reboots – I suspect the latter number would be higher.
Nonetheless, a reasonable piece of casting
The real comparison would be the number of new original shows that are successful vs the reboots that rate-networks like ‘name recognition’ to help a new project get viewers.
Personally, I’ve never seen more than a few random minutes of MacGyver and was unaware of Richard D Anderson until I started watching ‘Stargate SGU’ many years ago.