Get Your Duct Tape And Pocket Knife Ready - MacGyver is Coming Back!

[K.ur]

Why? He'll just use his Swiss Army iPhone to do everything....

Can't find it, but there is a comic, where it's shown that half if not more of MacGyver's adventures could be solved with a call from a mobile phone or internet.

 

[FFHAuthor]

It should star Adam and Jamie from Mythbusters as themselves; recruited by the CIA to perform duct-tape based clandestine operations in the Middle-East.

Ummm...they're actually working on a show along those lines...

 

[Something Amyss]

Hmm, if this will be set in the '60's or '70's it has my tentative seal of approval. Modern day MacGyver would be meh.

I don't know, I want to see a modern MacGyver using knowledge gleaned from years of TV and internet totackle impossible problems.

Granted, it would look more like an episode of Jackass, but still.

3) R.D.A. was far better in the Stargate SG-1 series than he ever was in McGyver. The reason was that he wasn't the main solo focus, but instead was one of a multi-cast of main characters who set the plot. Those co-stars helped prop him up during the series that really elevated TV sci-fi shows.

It really was the overall chemistry of the cast that sold that show to me. RDA is definitely awesome, but without Michael Shanks or Chris Judge or Amanda Tapping, it probably wouldn't have been as cool.

Hell, even the supporting cast was pretty damn awesome.

They did a A-team movie, now a MacGyver show, whats next? AirWolf?(ok, would honestly like to see that happen)

Quantum Leap has my vote.

Too hard.
Why think of a new original series when you can reboot some shit someone with imagination conceived decades agos.

The irony being that this complaint is older than MacGyver. And given that adaptation and remakes have been around almost as long as film, it seems a little hollow to complain about.

A more accurate idea is that Hollywood has no reason to, because people will buy up almost any 80s nostalgia they can get their hands on.

 

[flying_whimsy]

You can't improve upon perfection. If there's one thing modern television has proven it is incapable of, it's camp. It is unironic silliness that's still cool. Arguably, the modern remake would basically just be Burn Notice.

Also, why would we need MacGyver when we have Mythbusters? They do it for real.

 

[BeerTent]

It just won't be the same without Richard Dean Anderson.

I second @Cowabungaa . Modern movies and TV are getting to the point where it's JUST poorly made rehashes.

 

[FPLOON]

Will Liam Neeson make a cameo in this reboot? For some reason, I feel like it could use a touch of the Neeson set of skills...

Other than that, the mullet's going to be more that makes or breaks this potential series...

 

[ghalleon0915]

I greatly enjoyed this show back in the day; it was a weekly family night tv thing. I'm not sure how to react to this, I guess wait and see? Since it's a younger version, perhaps they will explain how he grew his mullet. Or...since it's a reboot, imagine if they decided to nix the mullet altogether? Selma and Patty would be furious.

Also...

"Jeroenr" post="7.883164.22273053"]
They did a A-team movie, now a MacGyver show, whats next? AirWolf?(ok, would honestly like to see that happen)

I...would also be pretty ok with an Airwolf show. When I first saw the copter, I thought that was sexy as hell. I always imagined a showdown between that and Blue Thunder

 

[Hairless Mammoth]

Wasn't there an article a month or so ago about them wanting to reboot/continue Stargate as either a new TV or movie series? Can't we just concentrate on one beloved Richard Dean Anderson classic at a time (and preferably just release remastered DVD and Bluray sets, instead of letting the hacks in charge of today's entertainment defecate out poor attempts at duplicating them for modern audiences)?


[small]Did, did I just see a link to a YTMND (from the site's heyday no less) in an Escapists article? Double the nostalgia!!![/small]

 

[Starbolt-81]

'Thank you sènior McGuyver, you saved our village!'

'Don't thank me, thank the moons gravitational pull!'