It sounds just like the potential new spinoff from The Rookie is getting nearer to turning into a actuality.
An order for a pilot for The Rookie North, from the unique collection’ creator Alexi Hawley, “has been gaining momentum,” based on Deadline. They’re ready on the casting of the lead, with “a handful of identified actors … approached for the function.”
The outlet additionally has new particulars concerning the potential spinoff’s plot and lead character. It’s to be set in Washington state, and whereas it was going to be much like Nathan Fillion‘s John Nolan turning into the oldest rookie within the LAPD when he modified careers, new casting notices for the lead reveal that the character, “tentatively named Alex [is] a former overachiever who turns into a rookie cop after his life didn’t go as deliberate.” The present would additionally embody coaching officers, rookies, and a police chief.
When TV Insider spoke with Alexi Hawley in Could about The Rookie Season 7 finale, we obtained an replace on the spinoff. He revealed, “There’s a script that I’ve been going forwards and backwards with ABC about. They offer notes and I do the work and I’m an ever-hopeful human being. And so I’d love nothing greater than to develop the universe and go make it. So we’ll see. I don’t know. I imply the enterprise proper now’s a bit of what it’s, however I imply, I stay hopeful. We’ll see what occurs.”
He added that his plan was for the potential spinoff to be “one other patrol present set some other place. All I can actually say is, I feel the magic of Rookie does reside in the truth that anytime they get out of their police vehicles, something can occur. And I feel that that’s one thing that I’d attempt to replicate in a derivative.”
Information first got here of this potential spinoff in December 2024. It follows the one-season run of The Rookie: Feds, which noticed Niecy Nash play the oldest rookie within the FBI academy who was assigned to the Los Angeles subject workplace. Feds solid members have continued to look on The Rookie even after its cancellation.
“There was a dialog with ABC after the unhappy cancellation of Feds about whether or not I may hold them in our universe. They’re phenomenal and if these actors can be found—and there’s going to return a time the place they’re not, they’re so good—I wish to hold them in our world,” Hawley informed us after the Season 6 finale, which noticed a number of the brokers seem. He waited to deliver them again at that time as a result of “I needed to let that [cancellation] form of breathe a bit, however then it’s about what’s a narrative worthy of seeing them once more.”
He famous on the time how a lot scheduling comes into play. “I undoubtedly wish to use them the place it’s most impactful story-wise. I don’t wish to waste their time and have them present up for one scene,” he defined. “However yeah, I’d love to make use of them for the remainder of our life as Rookie.”
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