Nash Bridgesfans, rejoice!
During an appearance onThe Ellen DeGeneres ShowWednesday,Don Johnsonconfirmed that he and some of his former costars from the 1990s police procedural are currently prepping for a modern revival.
“We’re in heavy prep for a reboot ofNash Bridges,” Johnson, 71, told hostEllen DeGeneres.
Johnson, who played the titular character, Inspector Nash Bridges, added thatCheech Marinwill be reprising his role as Inspector Joe Dominguez and Jeff Perry will return as Inspector Harvey Leek.
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“So we find Nash some years later and Cheech is going to come back and join me and Jeff Perry,” Johnson said. “We’ve got a pretty exciting show that we’re prepping in San Francisco right now.”
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A spokeswoman for the networkconfirmed to PEOPLEat the time that the project was in early development.
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“We’re writing it now,” Johnson said onThe Talkin November 2019, according toDeadline. “And it’s a two-hour television film, and they’re looking at it as kind of a way to launch it again as a series. Good Lord, I don’t know how I feel about that.”
The show will pick up in the present day, with Johnson’s character “still running San Francisco’s Special Investigations Unit and confronting a changing city, a new boss and a world in which police work focuses on modern data-crunching and predictive policing,“THRinitially reported.
source: people.com
