She’s a decorated Army veteran who brings level-headed precision to her job.Īt the helm of the highly confidential operation is Herbert “Magic” Williams (Ernie Hudson), a no-nonsense career military man who has to answer to his bosses who won’t be happy once they learn about the breach of protocol. 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. Now a new team has been assembled to restart the project in the hopes of understanding the mysteries behind the machine and the man who created it.Įverything changes, however, when Ben makes an unauthorized leap into the past, leaving the team behind to solve the mystery of why he did it. Sam Beckett stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator and vanished. The follow-up Quantum Leap series is set in present day. Him joining Quantum Leap does not impact Blank Slate, which is being actively shopped by Universal Studios. Georgaris most recently wrote and directed NBC’s drama pilot Blank Slate, which the network passed on last week despite good internal reception. Gero and Georgaris’ new roles bring a steady, experience hand to a challenging production that aims to deliver on the high expectations for the classic title’s reboot in a super tight time frame. Word is NBC brass are happy creatively with what they are seeing. Because of how tight things are, filming will continue without a pause following the showrunner change, I hear. There has been chatter about scripts being late but I hear Quantum Leap, which is on the fall schedule, has a very, vey tight production schedule, which puts pressure on everyone involved. The reasons for the showrunner shakeup are not entirely clear.
Percy Jackson: Sea Of Monsters helmer Thor Freudenthal, who directed the pilots for NBC’s La Brea and Prime Video’s Carnival Row, is directing the new pilot episode.
I hear the pilot will still air but not as the series’ opening episode word it that it may be Episode 3.
As Deadline reported in May, at the time of the Quantum Leap‘s pickup to series NBC was not entirely happy with the pilot. The change comes after the series has shot the first two episodes after the pilot, I hear. American Pie' Georgina Reilly In 'Quantum Leap'
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