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MacGyver Has a Team Now
The biggest change from the original series is that MacGyver is no longer a lone wolf. He works with a team loosely inspired by characters who appeared in the original series, including his boss Patricia Thornton (Sandrine Holt), hacker Riley (Tristin Mays), and weapons expert Jack Dalton (George Eads). "For the die-hard fanatics of the original show that’s going to be a hard pill to swallow," Lenkov acknowledges. "It was different in the 80s because I think you could get away with the story being more plot-driven. I think today audiences are very character driven. I felt the only way we were going to learn about MacGyver is by the people in his life that he plays off of... I wanted to get to know him and his approach to people around him."
The biggest change from the original series is that MacGyver is no longer a lone wolf. He works with a team loosely inspired by characters who appeared in the original series, including his boss Patricia Thornton (Sandrine Holt), hacker Riley (Tristin Mays), and weapons expert Jack Dalton (George Eads). "For the die-hard fanatics of the original show that’s going to be a hard pill to swallow," Lenkov acknowledges. "It was different in the 80s because I think you could get away with the story being more plot-driven. I think today audiences are very character driven. I felt the only way we were going to learn about MacGyver is by the people in his life that he plays off of... I wanted to get to know him and his approach to people around him."
PeopleSandrine Holt, George Eads, Tristin Mays, Lucas Till
TitlesMacGyver, The Rising