David Boreanaz Spills the Details on a Potential ‘Bones’ Revival (Exclusive)
David Boreanaz clarifies his comments on a possible revisit to ‘Bones’ now that ‘SEAL Team’ has wrapped and what he’s looking for in the future.
Rumors, rumors, rumors. In speaking to David Boreanaz for the release of the SEAL Team: The Final Season DVD, we were able to clarification on a rumor that seemed to come directly from him.
In talking to Variety, Boreanaz had commented about the possibility of a Bones reboot, which came as a surprise because in all our previous interviews with the actor, Boreanaz has always been a man who looks forward, not back. And it turns out that that hasn’t changed.
The reality is there isn’t a reboot of Bones in the works. He explains that he had been asked the question which of the shows he’s starred in – Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel or Bones – would be the easiest to revisit. He replied, Bones.
“That show would be an easy, ‘Let’s put the jeans back on, they fit comfortably, let’s revisit that maybe,” Boreanaz told Parade. “That’s how the answer was portrayed and people run with that, ‘Oh, my God. He would do a revival.’ It’s not really about doing a revival of it. It’s more like, ‘Hey, if it makes sense and everybody wants to come together and revisit that.'”
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Boreanaz did sort of revisit it recently when as part of his work with the USO, he visited the FBI area of Quantico for this first time, which impressed him and also sparked the idea that it would be cool if Bones was revisited to open up a scene with Booth (Boreanaz) and Brennan (Emily Deschanel) there in today’s environment.
“It would be hilarious,” Boreanaz continued. “I think that you could take these two characters and really enjoy the banter between the two of them and how realistic and how frank Temperance Brennan can be and how glided and how you’ve-got-to-be-kidding-me-that-this-is-happening that Booth could be as far as his opinion would be concerning today’s world. It would be a striking, striking contrast of humor and humility and it would be a very funny balance.”
Expounding on that, Boreanaz also had an idea of what a revival would look like seven years after the finale.
“Where would I see them? I would say our daughter Christine just got accepted into the Naval Academy,” he posed. “Or maybe she’s a Marine, and she’s training to be in the FBI program, and you find a dead body. And there I am getting recognised for an award. And I’ve got to get back in and Brennan’s there. I just think it would be cool. Anyhow, that’s just a thing.”
The likelihood of that happening is slim, especially since Boreanaz is working on several other projects right now that he would like to see through to fruition, and return to broadcast TV isn’t high on his list. He got a taste of what it’s like to work for a streamer when SEAL Team moved from CBS to Paramount+ and he liked it.
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“I don’t think network is reallymy focus,” he said. “I think streaming and being able to do a couple shows at the same time is where I’d like to land, which is where I’m heading possibly, we’ll see what happens.”
Boreanz has three different projects on his plate right now and they’re all different-versed types of characters that he’s hoping to film in the New Year.
“One character is a bit more against the corruption of what America could be doing, fighting against the money and the power of that type of corruption,” he said. “One is purely about a darker relationship of… I don’t want to give too much away.”
Until one of the ideas gets the green light, Boreanaz is taking it easy. After all, he worked 30 years almost non-stop between all of his series, so he’s finding the down time enjoyable.
“Even when I finished Bones, it was getting to a place where I was very excited to heal mentally and physically from the grind of the show,” he said, wrapping things up. “You know how difficult it is. Being able to end SEAL Team the way we ended it, it was great. I’m excited to just enjoy right now, heal my body and look forward to those fruits of labor.”
SEAL Team: The Final Season is a three-disc collection, which includes every episode of the final season and more than 35 minutes of special features, including deleted scenes, a gag reel and two featurettes.
Original article at Parade.
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