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Quantum Leap creator pens feature film adaptation

Cult series creator is hoping his series might be the latest to hit reboot.

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Here’s a retro show that never gets much press….

Quantum Leap creator Donald Bellisario, who attended Comic Con in LA at the weekend, has confirmed writing a big screen script of his sci-fi series.

“I just finished writing a Quantum Leap feature,” he said. “I don’t know what’s going to happen with it, but I did write it.

“I write things exactly the same way. I just start writing and I let them take me wherever it’s going to take me. I’m entertained the same way the audience is. So I just put Scott (Bakula) and Dean (Stockwell) in my head, kind of rebooted them, and went from there.”

The cult hit series ran from 1989 to 1993 and ended controversially with the time-jumping Beckett (Bakula) not returning to the present.

It’s probably a long shot for the show to return given he did not mention any studio interest as yet.

Source: EW

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  1. With 80’s and 90’s shows being re-imagined again Bellisario could have a chance financing a limit season run for streaming on sites like Netflix though being a veteran showrunner with numbers of long running successes to his credit Bellisario will probably want a full 20 episode revival, I’m sure Scott Bakula would be happy to make an appearance in the pilot episode.

    1. Yeah and it would be a nice touch, like giving something back Donald Bellisario who of course went on to make JAG and NCIS (to which he finished with in 2007), with Scott of course being in NCIS: New Orleans. Interestingly Scott Bakula is slated as being a guest star in Seth MacFarlane’s The Orville to which of course Scott was the Captain in Star Trek: Enterprise. Meaning he will join other Star Trek stars in Jonathan Frakes and Robert Duncan McNeill who directed episodes of The Orville, plus it is rumoured Patrick Stewart will also be in an episode (less suprising given his American Dad connection).

  2. A number of years ago when Donald Bellisario was talking about a new Quatum Leap series he said that it was centred around Sammy Jo Fuller (Sam’s Daughter), trying to bring Sam home so hope the movie plays out from there. Those with long memories may remember that was Al said to Sam in the Season 5 triology episodes, that Sammy Jo is doing fine and that she is working on Project Quantum Leap as a Project Technician and is finding a way to bring Sam home (and she doesn’t know same is her father).

  4. To be pedantic here (and I’m not having a dig at anyone, if this was Hard Quiz, this would be my special subject), this was at Stan Lee’s Los Angeles Comic-con. There are so many conventions that bill themselves as “comic-cons” Just down the road you have the Long Beach Comic Con, there’s obviously the behemoth San Diego Comic-con (more correctly, Comic-con International), and each reasonably large city has its own “comic-con”. What they all have in common is that usually they have little to do with actual comics.

  7. My preferred time travel show was from a decade later, Seven Days. That might be because of the beautiful Justina Vail, but I also recall being extremely impressed with the charisma of Jonathan LaPaglia. Ever since I have been surprised by his relatively dismal (compared to my expectations) career.

  8. I absolutely love this show as one of my all time favourites and I pretend that last episode simply did not happen. Not sure how I feel about a reboot though to be honest. If Bellasario has done the script then it’s got as good a chance as any of being what us fans would hope for.

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