The 25-year-old actor will play the title role in the CBS drama 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.
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The new MacGyver will find the twenty-something as a young recruit in a “clandestine organization” in which he uses his famous ingenuity with ordinary objects to solve problems.
Up next, he’ll return as the mutant Havok in “X-Men Apocalypse”, which is out this May.
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Till will next be seen in the lead in Paramount’s Monster Trucks. Till is repped by APA, manager Tom Sullivan and attorney Howard Fishman.
The role of MacGyver’s best friend from high school, Gunner, has also been filled by newcomer Joshua Boone.
Originally written by R. Scott Gemmill (NCIS: LA), the new take hails from scribe Paul Downs Colaizzo (CBS pilot LFE from last season). “CSI” alum George Eads was cast earlier this month as Lincoln, a conspiracy theorist who happens to work for the government.
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Bradford Hornsby is an editor, music writer, web producer, and pop culture blogger for CBS stations in the San Francisco Bay Area. David Von Ancken will direct the pilot and exec produce alongside original MacGyver creator Lee Zlotoff. He’s repped by Abrams.
