{"id":9458,"date":"2010-08-09T22:30:57","date_gmt":"2010-08-10T03:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=9458"},"modified":"2018-12-09T00:58:59","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T05:58:59","slug":"quantum-leap-movie-in-the-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2010\/08\/09\/quantum-leap-movie-in-the-works\/","title":{"rendered":"QUANTUM LEAP Movie In The Works"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Is Quantum Leap<\/em> the next beloved old science-fiction property to make transition to the big screen?<\/p>\n

According to Scott Bakula, who starred in the 1980s series as the time-traveling scientist Sam Beckett, Quantum Leap<\/em> creator Donald P. Bellisario has been at work on a cinematic version of the show. Unfortunately, since a couple of decades have now passed since Bakula and co-star Dean Stockwell played their characters, it is looking like they won’t be back to reprise their roles. However, as Bakula told fans at a Quantum Leap retrospective panel last month at the San Diego Comic-Con, that doesn’t mean that they’ll be absent from the project entirely-<\/p>\n

The good news is that Don [P. Bellisario] is working on the film script and has a big time Hollywood producer who wants to do it… It’s about time. But what I always thought would happen, happened … But Dean [Stockwell] and I will have a part in it somehow… Don did say that as he was writing, he told me he was having trouble, ‘getting you and Dean out of my head.’<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, it won’t be the first time that characters strongly associated with specific actors have been recast. Last summer’s Star Trek<\/strong> showed that it could be done effectively well. Of course, this winter’s Tron: Legacy<\/strong> promises to work as a stand alone film as well as a sequel the 1982 Walt Disney classic by mixing old and new casts. And since Quantum Leap is a time travel story, whose to say that Bakula and Stockwell couldn’t appear as older versions of themselves? Again, look to Star Trek<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

I would suggest that probably most fans of the series would want a Quantum Leap movie to wrap up the seeming cliffhanger the series final episode ended on. Myself, I thought it was a fitting, if bittersweet, conclusions that was true to the nature of Bakula’s character. I won’t spoil it here, but if you haven’t seen it, I would recommend tracking it down on DVD and judging for yourself.<\/p>\n

Via TheTwoCents.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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