NBC’s Quantum Leap Reboot Will get a Total Series Get

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There’ve been on-and-off hopes for some time now that the sci-fi cult classic Quantum Leap starring Scott Bakula and the late Dean Stockwell would get some kind of continuation. Creator Donald Bellisario made a script for a film meant to pick up the place the series left off, and late previous 12 months, information started swirling of NBC trying a reboot of the series. After taking pictures its pilot back in January, NBC has made a decision to go forward and give it a comprehensive series get.

Revealed by Deadline on Friday, the reboot will decide on up in the modern day day and go on where by the original Leap remaining off. At the end of its fifth and remaining time, Bakula’s time traveling direct, Dr. Sam Beckett, figured out that his quest to travel via time and correct many injustices during history by leaping into other people’s bodies would be an everlasting just one, or at minimum until eventually absolutely everyone noticed that secret ending. In the reboot, a new workforce led by Raymond Lee’s (Kevin Can Fuck Himself) Dr. Ben Seong has been set alongside one another in the hopes of uncovering the techniques of Beckett and his Quantum Leap accelerator. Signing up for Lee in the sequence involves Caitlin Bassett, Mason Alexander Park, Ernie Hudson, and Nanrisa Lee.

However it appears to be like the new Quantum Leap would be about getting a way to provide Beckett back again, it doesn’t seem that the character’s return is in the playing cards. Bakula is serving as just one of the reboot’s govt producers together with Bellisario, but he’s also starring in Unbroken, another drama for NBC hoping to get its have pickup and will air in November in the course of the drop midseason ought to that happen. With a whole collection buy in the operates, the new Quantum Leap is predicted to be air right just after The Voice, and will be just one of the many reveals to air at the commencing of the slide Tv year. All we have to do now is hold out for our to start with glance at this new acquire on the beloved series.

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