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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 in the air for some time if the revival would ever happen, the question has since shifted to if Scott Bakula would return to reprise original hero Sam Beckett. And if you were hoping for some kind of legacy mantle story, you’re about to be…
Quantum Leap Trailer Debuts NBC’s Time Travel Revival
33 years ago, in 1989, the original Quantum Leap hit the air and for five seasons we followed Dr. Sam Beckett through time as he tried to get back home. Now, physicist Ben Song (Raymond Lee) will follow in Beckett’s footsteps–literally–in the upcoming Quantum Leap revival. Here’s the first trailer for the upcoming series.
This isn’t a reboot, but rather a continuation. As with Twin Peaks: The Return, Ghostbusters: Afterlife, and so many others, Quantum Leap isn’t seeking to overwrite the original series, but to add onto it. Protagonist Ben Song and his team restart the Quantum Leap project in an attempt to find out just what happened to Scott Bakula’s character, Sam Beckett.
“Everything changes, however, when Ben makes an unauthorized leap into the past, leaving the team behind to solve the mystery of why he did it,” says the show’s synopsis. “At Ben’s side throughout his leaps is Addison (Caitlin Bassett), who appears in the form of a hologram only Ben can see and hear. She’s a decorated Army veteran who brings level-headed precision to her job.