MacGyver Reboot by Furious 7 Director

Reboots seem to be the trend in Hollywood the last couple of years. Sometimes it works out well, other times, not so much. It's particularly apprehensive when they try a remake of a classic show that people all over the world love and worship. A good example of how reboots can go south and ruin it for everyone is the recent attempt at rebooting the iconic Knight Rider series. Though the show had a few good things going for it, it was mostly rubbish. If the latest buzz has any substance, then we may be seeing yet another classic heading for a reboot. The 80's sensation MacGyver is currently been discussed as a candidate to return to Television. However, it won't be the one that everyone grew up with as Furious 7 director James Wan is set to executive produce the series, and he's on board to develop what's sure to be an explosive pilot episode. The show hasn't yet been ordered to series, but CBS has committed to at least making the pilot. There is even a possibility that the new protagonist might be a female but nothing on this matter has been verified so far.

Expect MacGyver to be a bit less scruffy than his '80s incarnation: the rebooted series will follow a 20-something version of the quick-on-his-toes action star. The official description for the show says this greener MacGyver "gets recruited into a clandestine organization where he uses his knack for solving problems in unconventional ways to help prevent disasters from happening."

This isn't the first time James Wan has been attached to the quirky action hero. He was tied to a 2012 MacGyver movie that never happened. In an interview earlier this year, he said that he had to drop the film in order to blow up some cars in Furious 7, but he sounded genuinely excited about the proposition of bringing MacGyver back to life. He said, "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."