X-Men Star Will Be the New MacGyver

If the reboot of the 1980s action TV series MacGyver is going to be a success, it's going to have to pull in some new fans. CBS took a step toward making that happen this week when it announced its casting choice for the title character: X-Men: Apocalypse star Lucas Till.

The upcoming reboot of the series, which is being developed enthusiastically by CBS, will feaure Till as a younger version of the character originally played by Richard Dean Anderson. Angus MacGyver is a secret agent who is able to get himself out of trouble by building contraptions and weapons out of the most unlikely of everyday items. Till will play a 20-something version of MacGyver, and the reboot will show audiences how that character came to be in the situation portrayed in the original series.

Till is finishing up work on X-Men: Apocalypse, in which he plays the superhero Havok, and will also star in the film Monster Trucks before he gets to work on MacGyver. The MacGyver series reboot was originally slated to be the second part of a project that would include a feature film produced by The Fast and the Furious producer Neal Moritz and directed by James Wan, the director of Saw and Fast and Furious. The status of that film is now in question, but the series appears to be a definite go.