Here’s The New McGyver

There is talk of a lot of rebooting happening at the minute, especially for television.  McGyver is one that has moved beyond idle talk though.  The lead actor for the new series has been cast, Lucas Till.

James Wan will serve as executive producer.  He described his original vision for the film to CraveOnline last year:

My initial concept was I wanted to do a young college MacGyver who went to Boston, one of the great universities, who’s really brilliant, right? He’s so smart he could never feel like he fit into a world that is an establishment. So he’s always a bit of an outsider. He’s very crafty, he’s very smart, all kinds of science and mathematics and engineering. I wanted to put my MacGyver story around something like a North by Northwest: He gets blamed for something that he had designed, something really big that’s something everyone wanted, and now someone has weaponized it and everyone’s coming after him. He’s running for his life and he’s trying to clear his name, not quite unlike the structure of Enemy of the State. So imagine Enemy of the State if Will Smith had the brains of MacGyver.

Lucas Till is probably best known right now for his role in X-Men: Apocalypse.  It will be interesting to see where they take this one.