George Eads Cast in "MacGyver" Reboot

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"MacGyver" CBS Pilot Casts "CSI" Alum George Eads, Gets New Director
by Nellie Andreeva
March 8, 2016


"CSI" vet George Eads is returning to CBS and CBS TV Studios with a role in their pilot "MacGyver", a reimagining of the 1985 series about a resourceful and ingenious agent who improvises his way out of sticky situations using everyday items like rubber bands, chewing gum and a Swiss Army knife.

Eads will play Lincoln, a man who could easily be written off as an eccentric conspiracy theorist but he’s a legit government employee with great capability for compassion.





James Wan, who had been shepherding the project from the get-go, was slated to direct but has pulled out due to a scheduling conflict with post-production on his latest film, The Conjuring 2.

David Von Ancken (Code Black, Salem) will step in to helm the pilot. Wan remains an executive producer.

Also joining the "MacGyver" reboot is the original’s creator Lee David Zlotoff who will be an executive producer.





The "MacGyver" script that was picked up to pilot by CBS was written by Paul Downs Colaizzo. (R. Scott Gemmill had been originally attached as a writer.)

Colaizzo has since been joined by "Code Black" executive producer Brett Mahoney, who has been co-writing with him for the past couple of weeks.

http://deadline.com/2016/03/macgyver...ff-1201716402/