Dr. Sam Beckett may still be leaping through realities, but he won’t be the only one. The Quantum Leap revival series will debut on NBC later this month, and the first official trailer has been released.
The Quantum Leap revival follows a new team who has been assembled to restart the Quantum Leap project in the hopes of understanding the mysteries behind the machine and the man who created it. Raymond Lee stars as Dr. Ben Seong, a world-renowned physicist and man of faith who finds himself stuck in the late 1980s with amnesia after using the Quantum leap technology on himself.
In addition to Raymond Lee, Quantum Leap also stars Caitlin Bassett also stars as Addison, who appears in the form of a hologram only Ben can see or hear; Mason Alexander Park as Ian Wright, who runs the AI unit Ziggy; Nanrisa Lee as Jenn Chou, head of Digital Security for the Quantum Leap project; and Ernie Hudson as Herbert “Magic” Williams, a Vietnam veteran and head of the time travel project at Quantum Leap.
The Quantum Leap trailer looks like a lot of fun, but I know most fans are waiting for the inevitable moment when Scott Bakula returns as Sam Beckett. According to Ernie Hudson, the invitation to return as been extended to Scott Bakula to reprise his role. “I’ve always appreciated his work,” Hudson said. “He was wonderful in the [original] series and everything I’ve seen him do. Everybody that I know involved in [the reboot] would love to see him return. I know the invitation is out there, but I don’t know what his response is.“
The official synopsis for Quantum Leap:
It’s been nearly 30 years since Dr. Sam Beckett stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator and vanished. Now, a new team, led by physicist Ben Song (Raymond Lee), has been assembled to restart the project. Everything changes, however, when Ben makes an unauthorized leap into the past, leaving the team behind to solve the mystery of why he did it.
Quantum Leap will debut on NBC on September 19th. What did you think of the Quantum Leap trailer?