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Ghostbusters star Ernie Hudson joins the Quantum Leap reboot
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11 Mar 2022, 15:16
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If you’re of a certain age, then watching Quantum Leap will surely have been one of the highlights of your television viewing back in the early 90s. Well, excitingly, the show is set to be revived, and Ghostbuster Ernie Hudson has joined the cast.
The original series starred Scott Bakula as Dr. Sam Beckett, a physicist who involuntarily time-travelled, finding himself in the body of a different person until he sorted out their problems, whilst at the same time trying to get back home to his own time.
At the end of the fifth season, the series was cancelled, with 97 episodes having aired. At the show’s conclusion, it was revealed that Beckett never returned home to the present day.
Now, three decades after Dr. Sam Beckett vanished, a reboot is being planned to focus on a new team that has been assembled to restart the Quantum Leap project. The team aims to understand the mysteries behind the Quantum Leap machine and the man who created it.
The pilot for the reboot will also star Raymond Lee (who is also set to feature in Top Gun: Maverick) as a physicist called Dr. Ben Seong, who gets stuck in the late 1980s with amnesia after using the machine.
Deadline reports that Ernie Hudson - who played Ghostbuster Winston Zeddemore in the hit 1984 movie and its sequel, and made a lovely little cameo in last year’s Ghostbusters: Afterlife - is set to join the pilot. He will play Herbert “Magic” Williams, a Vietnam veteran and head of the time travel project at Quantum Leap.
According to Deadline’s report, Scott Bakula has “been in talks for a possible involvement but he is not attached to the project at this time”. His original Quantum Leap co-star, Dean Stockwell, who played much-loved character Al, died last November.
Cast members who have been signed up for the hour-long pilot, along with Ernie Hudson and Raymond Lee, are Nanrisa Lee, Mason Alexander Park, and Caitlin Bassett.
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