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Big Bang prequel in development

Co-creators are pursuing a series featuring a teenage Sheldon.

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A prequel for The Big Bang Theory is in the pipeline featuring a young Sheldon Cooper, the character portrayed by Jim Parsons.

Lorre and Bill Prady as well as showrunner Steve Molaro is described as Malcolm in the Middle but with a young and potentially teenage version of Sheldon. None of the Big Bang Theory cast are said to be involved in the potential prequel series outside of Parsons, who will executive produce.

It will be a single-camera comedy with CBS aligned to the project.

Meanwhile Jim Parsons, Johnny Galecki (Leonard), Kaley Cuoco (Penny), Simon Helberg (Howard), Kunal Nayyar (Raj), Mayim Bialik (Amy) and Melissa Rauch (Bernadette) are all currently negotiating new deals for a likely 11th season and beyond, pending hefty pay raises.

Source: Hollywood Reporter

11 Responses

  1. I’d cast Max Burkholder as Sheldon, but i guess it depends on the age of the character. I often thought he resembled Jim Parsons; but some of that was the aspergers storyline in Parenthood that he played sop beautifully. I think this idea has promise.

  2. We’ve seen the ‘old’ Sheldon a number of times in flashback eps over the course of the BBT series so far and he was highly unpleasant-difficult to see how he would be an ongoing character in a series that evolved to that point and would have people want watch it.

    1. Perhaps a shared focus on his parents (Laurie Metcalfe perhaps too old, but a fun character) and his twin sister would provide more scope for situations and character and explore where he came from and how he became that fascinating complex figure. I think Sheldon Cooper in Jim Parsons’ hands is one of the great sitcom characters.

  3. Single camera? Seems odd for a US sitcom, and no @effdee, single camera comedy does not equate to handheld. It means scenes are filmed twice, once from Angle [read character] A and again from Angle [read character] B. The mix is then done in edit.

  4. I still love this show. hard to believe they are in their 10th season. The 10th was Friends final, yet there still seems so much more left in the BBT. I’m not sure about the spin off plans, it’s rare that you get a prequel to a show still on air.

    1. Single-camera means that each shot is filmed independently, giving the director/cinematographer more freedom in their choice of shots, camera angles and editing. Multi-cam is better for works that are primarily dialogue-driven, and tend to be, for the most part, uncinematic.

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