Scott Bakula Confirms No Involvement with New Quantum Leap

Next week, NBC’s reboot-revival of Quantum Leap will air. While it’s been up within the air for a while if the revival would ever occur, the query has since shifted to if Scott Bakula would return to reprise authentic hero Sam Beckett. And should you have been hoping for some type of legacy mantle story, you’re about to be dissatisfied.

On the appearing facet, we’ve recognized for a while that Bakula wouldn’t be showing within the present, since he was already solid in NBC’s upcoming drama, Unbroken. But his Twitter thread from earlier within the week, he’s extra express in saying he’s received no connection to the present, even behind the digicam. However, he did obtain a script for the pilot, however finally handed on getting concerned with the sequence. “As the show has always been near and dear to my heart, it was a very difficult decision to pass on the project,” wrote Bakula. “As so many of you have been asking me the last several months, ‘How could you do QL without Sam (or Al, for that matter)?’ Well, I guess we’re about to find out.”

In the unique Nineties sequence, Bakula performed Sam Beckett, the person who traveled via varied time limits whereas additionally serving to folks. In the aired ending for the present’s remaining episode, Sam realized that he could be leaping for the remainder of his life. The new sequence stars Raymond Lee as Ben Seong, who finds himself with the identical means as Sam after he and his crew attempt to uncover the secrets and techniques of the physician’s time journey expertise.

Even although he’s not concerned, Bakula was very happy to level out that the unique present’s idea of dwelling a life in different folks’s sneakers stays potent, and gave his hopes that the brand new present would discover an viewers, as his did many years in the past. “I am crossing my fingers that this new cast and crew…tap into the magic that propelled the original Quantum Leap into the hearts and minds of generations past and present.”

Quantum Leap will premiere on NBC on Monday, September 19.

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