Ernie Hudson has been cast opposite Raymond Lee as a lead in NBC’s “Quantum Leap” pilot, TheWrap has learned. The new series is a reboot of the original show, which starred Scott Bakula as a time traveler.
Hudson will play Magic, a military veteran and head of the time travel project at Quantum Leap.
Lee is set as Dr. Ben Seong, a “spiritual successor” to Bakula’s beloved time traveler, Dr. Sam Beckett. Per NBC, the character is “both a scientist and man of faith. He’s a world-renowned physicist working on a time travel project known as Quantum Leap.”
The new series is set three decades after the original series.