Quantum Leap: The Movie..

Beechy McFly

Beechy McFly

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Not sure if you guys have heard, or I'm behind the times :lol, but a Quantum Leap movie is about to start getting made..

Bakula sat in on a con panel titled " A Leap of Faith - A Quantum Leap Retrospective " and told some 600 attendees that, although he knows that he and co - star Dean Stockwell are a bit long in the tooth to pick up their characters where they left off, he's involved in the project with series creator Donald P. Bellisario.. But will that involve screen time?

According to Bakula:
" The good news is that Don 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 ... [ That he's now too old for the role ].. But Dean and I will have a part in it somehow.."
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" Don did say that as he was writing, he told me he was having trouble, ' getting you and Dean out of my head..' But I know he will do it.."
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Like any fan, I want Bakula and Stockwell on screen in a new Quantum Leap project.. Sure, Hollywood being what it is, there'll be a hunky, much younger scientist whooshing through time, but there has to be a way to get the original fellas back in the game.. Maybe Sam finally stopped traveling through time, and now he's advising another scientist with the same problem! Sam could be the new Al!

I really hope that this is the beginning of a Quantum Leap 2.0 or something for TV..
 
I'd much rather see the original cast back than anyone else. I don't care if they are older, you can come up wiht a way to explain it.
 
I bet they're in it at the very end of the movie, explaining how Sam finally makes it home, as they sit and reminisce about the journey as old men.


Me, I'd rather see another Harry d'Amour appearance by Bakula. I know it's not regarded as his best role, but I always really enjoyed Lord of Illusions.
 
They were talking about a Magnum movie with a new cast a while back, too.
Recasting doesn't work for me.
 
I thought they ended the show implying that same was an angel and that he went to heaven at the end. Or am I totally not remembering correctly?
 
The great thing about the show was the chemistry that Dean and Scott had. It was so good that I know a lot of people wouldn't mind at all seeing a movie done with them reprising their roles, despite how old they are. Remember, Sam never leaped home.
 
Yea, the ending of the show was terrible just because of that one word: "never". Take that out and it would have been an OK, if not rushed and low budget, ending. I'd love to see a movie with the same cast, don't care to see it recast and rebooted.
 
Ehhhhh I don't see this ending well.:unsure I wouldn't be shocked if it was as good, as Clash of the titans.:sick
 
Another Mindless souless POS coming fro Hollywood.

Huge fan of the show but they need to leave this one alone.
 
There were quite as few unanswered questions on Sam's fate, and it was implied that he could have been eliminated in the time line and that the QL project never happened because of such. Scuttlebutt was that the writers were less than enthusiastic about killing the show off suddenly and that the shows script ending reflected that disappointment. Many fans were left wondering what really happened at the end of the show since it was really not handled well. For all they knew, Sam could have become a time Lord on the Dr Who series or eliminated in a time paradox, it was a terrible ending.

Sooooo, I am sure there are many die hard fans that would welcome them continuing on the series if anything else to see Sam's character come back in a positive manner.
 
The way the series ended was, Sam's at a bar talking to the Bartender who is God. He tells Sam that the leaps will continue, they will get harder, and that he'll have to do it without Al. He gets to leap and tell Al's wife that Al is alive and will be coming home from Nam, so Al's life winds up with a happy ending. Then it states that Sam "Never" (only a Sith deals in Absolutes) returned home.

This episode was actually done earlier in the series and put in a can. Unfortunately there was an episode (actually a 2 parter) where Al and Sam switch places, and you find out Sam has a wife etc. which really shot holes in the "final" episode. It won't be a true QL movie unless Gooshie (thanks GW) has bad breath.
 
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0neiros said:
It won't be a true QL movie unless Ziggy has bad breath.
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That would be Gooshie. Ziggy was the computer.

I, too, was always disappointed with how it ended. Sam never returning home and being told that it's all going to get harder is pretty rough. It seemed more like a cliffhanger than a resolution, like the series was going to change the game and head into a whole new direction. You had that mysterious Stawpah/Steve leaper plus tons of people from his other leaps present in the bar.

I would be interested in seeing a continuation/resolution of the series, not a reboot or remake.
 
I don't understand why age would be an issue based on the final episode that Sam continues to leap for years after that episode. He just doesn't have Al to help him out.

Reboot would not be a good thing for this. Telling it as another leaper folowing Sam's material would be much better.
The difficulty would be that if Al has a happy ending or his wrong was put right, then another would have taken Al's place. Sam would be the only one to remember.
I don't understand why Hollywood wouldn't do some imaginative thing like this to Continue the story.
OH well,
Mobius
 
Anyone see the fanfilm 'A Leap to Di For'?
Sure it had a lot of the problems of fanfilms, no budget, etc... but I felt it was a good way to continue the story. They had it several years after the end, where Sam has been leaping on his own and having to make do with a simulated Al hologram due to the government pulling the funding.
 
I can't see why not use them.. Don't really care about age.. As MegaPrime33 mentioned, they had a great chemistry.. Seeing Dean Stockwell in BSG and Scott Bakula in Enterprise and Chuck, they can still act.. Actually my favourite episode in Enterprise was when Dean Stockwell made a guest appearance.. The chemistry was still there..

I'd love for them to head back to the series and continue it from where they left off..
 
I actually wrote a screenplay an sent it to MGM/UA..which of course was sent right back unopened since no studio takes unsolicited material.
I sent Sam to the future, (Because God knew when he could leap within his own timeline), and he stopped a presidential assassination carried out by ...Zoe. It had a neat twist where Al, happily married with all his daughters, met Al in the future and actualyl argues with himslf through Sam.
As for a new movie..I"m with you all. If you re-cast and don't get Sam home...like the series that was talked about for SyFy channel a couple years ago with Sam's daughter Sammie Jo leaping around...count me out too.
Without Bakula and Stockwell...well...it wouldn't work. Sort of like trying to put right what once went wrong. Some stories don't need a reboot.
 
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