Earlier this 12 months reviews got here out that NBC was taking pictures a reboot of the cult basic sci-fi collection, Quantum Leap, and now we’ve got discovered that the pilot has been ordered to collection on the community. It has been thirty years since Dr. Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula) stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator and vanished, and now a brand new workforce has been assembled to restart the undertaking, in search of to unravel the mysteries behind the machine and the person who created it. In different phrases, the reboot is choosing up the place issues left off, and it appears like it’s extra of a sequel than a tough restart. It appears becoming that this information would arrive on Might fifth, precisely twenty-nine years to the day that the credit rolled for the final time on the collection.
Along with the collection order information, NBC has additionally delivered a primary have a look at the collection, which reveals Dr. Ben Seong (Raymond Lee). The solid contains Caitlin Bassett, Ernie Hudson, Mason Alexander Park, and Nanrisa Lee. Little or no is understood in regards to the collection or its characters, past the information that broke earlier this 12 months that Station Eleven director Helen Shaver could be directing the pilot episode. Jewel Staite may seem within the collection, based mostly on filming that came about in Vancouver, although an official announcement about her character has not been made but. La Brea showrunners Steven Lilien and Bryan Wynbrdant penned the pilot, and also will be government producing alongside Shaver. Concern not, the creator of the Quantum Leap, Don Bellisario has additionally signed on to provide the collection with Deborah Pratt, the voice of Ziggy the A.I., together with Martin Gero.
The unique Quantum Leap collection premiered in 1989 and ran for 5 seasons with Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell as its leads. The collection centered round Dr. Beckett, a physicist who had theorized the potential for time journey and finally gained authorities assist to launch the “Quantum Leap” program. Issues go terribly mistaken, and he’s thrown again in time the primary time he leaps. However that is not even the worst of it. Each time he leaps by means of time he results in the physique of the particular person he leaps into, which means he is by no means bodily current in these places. In virtually each episode he inadvertently causes main adjustments to historical past, however hopes every leap he makes will finally return him residence. Whereas it’s unclear if Bakula will make an look within the reboot, he has confirmed in previous interviews that he has had conversations about the potential of returning.
Hopefully, because the collection begins to maneuver ahead with extra episodes, we’ll get extra details about when and the place the collection is about.
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