Oh, boy. Scott Bakula, in a bid to “quiet the rumors,” has opened up about his choice to not be concerned in NBC’s Quantum Leap reboot — in any respect.
Set almost 30 years after Sam Beckett — Bakula’s leaper from the unique TV sequence — stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator and vanished, the brand new sequence follows a workforce led by physicist Ben Track (performed by Kevin Can F**okay Himself‘s Raymond Lee), which was assembled to restart the challenge. However all the things adjustments when Ben makes an unauthorized leap into the previous, leaving the workforce behind to unravel the thriller of why he did it.
Bakula’s Sam briefly seems within the reboot pilot, within the context of somebody being proven as photograph of Ben’s predecessor.
In an Instagram put up on Thursday afternoon, Bakula wrote:
To Quantum Leap followers all over the world, in an effort to quiet the rumors and transfer on…
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Initially, thanks for hanging round by the a long time!
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Right here’s the easy model of what’s happening with the Quantum Leap reboot and me:
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I’ve no reference to the brand new present, both in entrance of the digital camera or behind it.
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In January, the pilot was bought and a script was despatched to me as a result of the character of Sam Beckett was in it, which is sensible, proper? As so lots of you have got been asking me the final a number of months, “How may you do QL with out Sam?“ (or Al, for that matter). Nicely, I suppose we’re about to seek out out.
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That’s the story. Because the present has at all times been close to and pricey to my coronary heart, it was a really tough choice to go on the challenge, a choice that has upset and confused so many followers of the unique sequence. Nevertheless, the thought of anybody ‘leaping’ round in time and strolling a mile in another person’s footwear, stays a really interesting idea and so worthy of exploration, particularly given the present state of mankind. In that spirit, I’m crossing my fingers that this new solid and crew are fortunate sufficient to faucet into the magic that propelled the unique Quantum Leap into the hearts and minds of generations previous and current.
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I want them good luck and joyful leaping!
To this point, the messaging from all concerned in NBC’s Quantum Leap reboot (premiering this Monday, Sept. 19 at 10/9c) has been that the door is open for Bakula to be concerned.
“We’d like to have him. There isn’t any Quantum Leap with out Scott Bakula,” sequence star Raymond Lee informed TVLine’s Keisha Hatchett on Thursday morning. “I hope he can watch the present and log out on it, and in the future comply with be on it. However the supply is on the market.” (With reporting by Keisha Hatchett)
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