EXCLUSIVE: The long-in-the-works White Collar reboot is about to hit {the marketplace}. Based on sources, sequence creator Jeff Eastin, who has been behind the trouble to revive the cult USA Community sequence, shall be taking the pitch out within the subsequent week or two.
The undertaking is produced by twentieth Tv, a part of Disney TV Studios. Initially, sibling Hulu was thought-about the logical house for the followup because it additionally carries the White Collar library. I hear the Disney streamer opted to not proceed with the reboot, which is now being taken to the open market.
Of the opposite main gamers, Netflix can be a pure match because the platform additionally has (for the second) the unique sequence within the U.S., in addition to the U.Ok. and Canada.
The principle solid, together with star Matt Bomer, Tim DeKay and Tiffani Thiessen are anticipated to reprise their roles ought to the sequence come to fruition even when some are usually not formally hooked up but.
Conversations a few White Collar reboot began within the early months of the pandemic when the solid reunited nearly for charity.
Eastin confirmed last June that the undertaking is in improvement at twentieth TV and final September, he posted an update on X, “It’s coming collectively,” together with a screenshot of the script, revealing the followup’s title, White Collar Renaissance, in addition to the title of the pilot episode, “Masquerade.”
“It’s a unbelievable script and it solutions all of the questions that one would have if you happen to watch the present,” DeKay said again in June, “and it might introduce the present to those that haven’t seen it as nicely. Each edges of the sword are honed.”
The reboot additionally is anticipated to honor the late Willie Garson, who performed a significant character within the unique sequence. Garson died in 2021.
“With such sensitivity and such coronary heart,” stated Thiessen concerning the reboot script on the identical Selection occasion final June. “I informed Jeff after I completed it, I actually was so excited, however on the identical time had tears in my eyes — for good purpose. You captured the suspense, the joys, the characters and the love in that reboot.”
White Collar was ran on NBCU’s USA Community from 2009-2014. It was produced by Fox TV Studios, which was absorbed into Fox21 and in the end into twentieth TV.
