'Quantum Leap' Reboot Showrunner Talks Future Episodes, Scott Bakula, and Working with the Original Creators

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QuantumLeap showrunner Martin Gero tells us about the challenge of making a series in a different time period and location every week.

Editor’s note: The following contains spoilers for Quantum Leap.In the NBC series Quantum Leap, the time travel project has been restarted with a new team, led by physicist Ben Song , that is hoping to find answers and understanding about the man who originally created the program. Nearly 30 years since Dr.

When you did decide to move forward with this, what was important to you, when it came to making a show that’s recognizable for fans of the original, but you’re also doing your own thing? It seems like that can be trickier than people realize, so did you have a guide for finding that balance? Scott Bakula came out and said recently that he wishes you well, but that he’s not involved with the show. At the same time, fans of the original series would love to see him on this new show, in some way. Is that door closed? Do you hope to return to a conversation with him, at some point?

The thing about Quantum Leap is that every episode is essentially a pilot, since you are in a different time period with all new characters and you’re exploring a new situation. What are the challenges of making a series like that? GERO: Yes, and I love it. We won’t have a Christmas episode because we’re not airing on Christmas, but the show is literally airing on Halloween night. We’re doing our take on The Exorcist, and it’s like really scary and good.

GERO: Yeah. Even our bad reviews are saying that Raymond is a star. He is an undeniable presence and an infinite sense of empathy. It’s very important to our writers and the production staff and Raymond that these characters should never be played for laughs. It should never be, “Oh, he’s a woman. Isn’t that funny?” That is just a recipe for a disaster.

GERO: I had great fortune. I occasionally will just make short films and not tell anyone about them. They’re like secret projects on the side. Sometimes they lead to bigger things, but sometimes they don’t. Raymond was a part of one of those in 2019, and I was just blown away by him. He had such a tiny part, but he was so funny. I also just got to know him that day and was like, “This guy’s gonna be fucking huge.” And then, when he got cast Kevin Can Fuck Himself, that was it.

GERO: We had been talking about ways to connect things to the past. I don’t wanna give too much away because a lot comes out in episode four, as to the like why of it all. But we identified Magic as the character for a lot of reasons. Obviously, that episode is so beloved, but once you see episode four, you’ll be like, “Yes, that’s why it makes sense to have him be the head of the program.”

 

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