Another former goggle box show is being dusted off and given a new biography : CBS announced that they ’re reboot MacGyver with enraged 7 director James Wan slate to direct the pilot . Color us interested .
According to CBS ( viaEW ) , the new MacGyver will be a revise concept , rather than any variety of continuation of the existing show :
A reimagining of the television serial publication of the same name , following a 20 - something MacGyver as he gets raise into a surreptitious organization where he uses his bent for solving problems in unlawful ways to aid prevent disasters from bechance .
CBS has had quite a snatch of success with another ‘ 80s reboot , Hawaii Five-0 , which was given a 6th time of year earlier this year , and a number of other shows , such as X - Files and Twin Peaks , will be deliver to the airwaves in the come months . This make a sight of common sense : there ’s already a kind of brand awareness of the enfranchisement , and it ’s something that ’s easier to promote through than an original property .
James Wan had been trying to make a feature film about the lineament asearly as 2011 , and earlier this year , a crowdsourced competition looked to reimagine thetitular character as a womanhood .
[ EW ]
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