This may have been brought up already, but given that only Sam and Al saw Sam as himself, it seems to me that bringing Sam Beckett into the story would not require bringing in Scott Bakula. He could look like anybody.
Will Sam Beckett Return Home? NBC Orders Quantum Leap Reboot Pilot
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This may have been brought up already, but given that only Sam and Al saw Sam as himself, it seems to me that bringing Sam Beckett into the story would not require bringing in Scott Bakula. He could look like anybody.
So what terminology does the industry use when it has to distinguish a series / film with a totally new continuity (e.g. the new Magnum PI) from something set in the same continuity (e.g. the new X-Files series)? There will be a need for a shortcut term when you have to make a pitch to producers without having to use long explanations, right? "Yes, it's a IP reboot, yep, but it is set in the same continuity of the old series, you know, with the same actors! This other series, insted, is a IP reboot, but with a NEW continuity and new actors! If only there were single words to convey the meaning without every time to explain what I mean..."
Probably nothing, because internal continuity doesn't matter as much to industry insiders as it does to fans. Fans like to think of fiction as "real" and so they worry about whether two different versions of a concept and its characters are in the same "reality" or not. But the people who create a work of fiction are more aware of it as a created thing. It's all the same characters and premise and franchise, regardless of how the story is told.
More to the point, the businesspeople who produce and bankroll and market these things are more concerned with them as intellectual property with profit-making potential. From that standpoint, it doesn't matter what continuity a revival is in, only whether it appeals to an audience and makes a profit for the owners of the IP. Whether that's done by reviving an existing continuity or creating a new one is up to the individual creators, but since both methods have worked at producing profitable revivals, there's no real reason for the businesspeople in the industry to see the two as fundamentally separate things.
I mean, the appeal of something like Sherlock Holmes or Superman or Godzilla is not about a single continuity, but about the fundamental character. That's why those franchises have succeeded with countless separate continuities and reinventions. Continuity is a secondary consideration, just a matter of how you put the building blocks together. The building blocks themselves are what sell the property, what draw in an audience. Most audience members don't even pay attention to what continuity something's in. As long as they see the characters they like, that's what matters.
"Unbroken", the new NBC show with Scott Bakula, is not going forward. I'm sad, I was really looking forward to it 
But maybe it will free him up for other things?
https://www.tvinsider.com/1052871/u...bakula-ranch-drama-not-moving-forward-at-nbc/
But maybe it will free him up for other things?
https://www.tvinsider.com/1052871/u...bakula-ranch-drama-not-moving-forward-at-nbc/
And the pilot episode won't air as the first episode. Presumably that will require heavy editing or reshoots.
https://deadline.com/2022/07/quantu...cer-steven-lilien-bryan-wynbrandt-1235076811/
Well that's always a good sign........
Though the author of the article doesn't seem to know that while QL was produced in was produced 89-93 it was set circa 1999 so the new series would be 23 or years after the original.
At one poiint there was the line "it's 1999 do you know where you quantum physicist is?"
The 30 years line comes from NBC's description of the show. So if you're trying ti discredited the piece based on that you're not going to get far.
You mean... Sam Beckett was flung through time the same year the Moon was blown out of Earth orbit? Was there a correlation? If so, which event caused which?
no - more it was more observation.
Actress Georgina Reilly has joined the show in a "key recurring role".
Well, that was clickbaity. It doesn't actually have any information about Bakula, just poses the question of whether he might return.
Honestly, I'm a lot more interested in the prospect of Ernie Hudson as a series regular than I am in seeing Bakula return.
From the second article:
Weird. How will that be handled? There have been shows in the past that just aired their pilots late without comment, like Firefly, but that seems unlikely in these more serialized times. Maybe it'll be more like Crusade or The Dresden Files where the pilot is recut and partly reshot to pass it off as a later episode.
Hey what about that handlink they left behind in 1945?
I just watched "The Leap Back" the opening episode to season 4 and Sam and Al swap places but they leave behind a handlink in 1945 saying it was a secret walkie talkie? Wouldn't that contaminate the timeline?
Hey I didn't mind that reboot..
I just watched "The Leap Back" the opening episode to season 4 and Sam and Al swap places but they leave behind a handlink in 1945 saying it was a secret walkie talkie? Wouldn't that contaminate the timeline?
Hey I didn't mind that reboot..
What does that even mean in the context of a series whose protagonist's entire mission is to rewrite history? Everything Sam did "contaminated" the timeline, if you want to think of it that way. (The show glossed over it, but the Ashley McConnell novels showed the present of Project Quantum Leap routinely changing in response to Sam's actions in the past, with only Al and Ziggy being aware that anything had changed, IIRC.)
Ah OK.... I just wonder where that handlink device ended up once the original person was back in their body.