Lastly extra excellent news for Scrubs followers. 5 and a half months after the reboot of the beloved medical comedy secured collection creator Invoice Lawrence, the mission has locked in star Zach Braff, sources inform Deadline. He’ll reprise his function as John “J.D.” Dorian within the Scrubs followup, which is in improvement at ABC from twentieth Tv. Reps for the community and studio declined remark.
The take care of Braff comes after months of touch-and-go negotiations that hit main hurdles over each cash and Braff’s request for the collection to movie in Los Angeles and never Vancouver as initially deliberate, sources mentioned. The deadlock was so critical, there was an opportunity for your complete mission to be, um, scrubbed, till the 2 sides lately got here to an settlement. As a result of Scrubs continues to be in improvement, no filming location has been introduced.
The Scrubs reboot is proving to be a extremely complicated mission to place collectively from dealmaking standpoint. It took months of negotiations with Warner Bros TV, the place Lawrence is below an unique general deal, to carve out the Scrubs, permitting him to develop the followup for Disney’s twentieth TV and ABC. (He received’t function Scrubs showrunner as he has 4 collection for WBTV, Shrinking, Ted Lasso, Dangerous Monkey and the upcoming Steve Cafrell HBO comedy.)
Braff was subsequent. Together with his deal now closed, twentieth TV is predicted to start out making pacts with the opposite core unique solid members, Sarah Chalke (Elliot Reid), Donald Faison (Christopher Turk), John C. McGinley (Perry Cox), in addition to Judy Reyes (Carla Espinosa), who’s a collection common on ABC/twentieth TV breakout new drama collection Excessive Potential.
Over the previous 12 months, Braff had shared his optimism concerning the Scrubs reboot, saying final August “I believe it’s gonna occur.”
Lawrence informed Deadline final fall that he envisions Scrubs 2.0 as a hybrid between a revival, revisiting unique characters a decade and a half after the unique collection ended its run, and a reboot, revamping the unique idea with new characters because the collection is ready to introduce new surgical interns.
Braff has continued his relationship with Lawrence post-Scrubs, incomes DGA and Emmy nominations for steering Ted Lasso. He additionally has directed Season 2 and three episodes of Shrinking, did an arc on Dangerous Monkey as an actor and is presently directing the Untitled Steve Carell Mission for HBO created by Lawrence and Scrubs writer-producer Matt Tarses.
In featured, Braff lately wrapped the indie Clear Fingers, based mostly on the lifetime of hero drug cop turned restoration advocate Kevin Simmers and his daughter Brooke, and can subsequent be seen in Focus Options’ Ladies Like Ladies. Braff is repped by CAA, Vary Media companions and lawyer Ken Richman.
