‘Suits’ spin off pulls extra authentic stars together with Harvey Specter
Fits spinoff Fits LA is aiming to incorporate extra stars on board!
The beloved character of Harvey Specter is again on the small display, courtesy of Gabriel Macht’s visitor look within the sequence.
The brand new present, starring Stephen Amell as Ted Black, follows a former New York prosecutor who builds a legislation agency in Los Angeles specializing in legal and leisure legislation.
To keep up a connection to the unique sequence, creator Aaron Korsh introduced again a well-known face. Given Ted Black’s background as a New York prosecutor, Korsh noticed a possibility to reunite with Macht, who performed a prosecutor-turned-lawyer within the authentic Fits sequence.
The reunion was facilitated by an opportunity encounter in the course of the filming of a Fits-inspired Tremendous Bowl advert for T-Cell in 2024, which starred Macht and Patrick J. Adams.
“When we shot the pilot, we put a picture of him in the pilot without me having discussed it with Gabriel. I knew we could always take it out if he didn’t want to do it, but it would be harder to put back in,” Korsh advised The Hollywood Reporter on the present’s L.A premiere on Thursday.
“So we did it and when we got a [series] pickup I called Gabriel and just asked him if he wanted to come play and he graciously said yes.”
Macht mentioned that for followers of the unique sequence, “if they can let go of that cast and welcome a new cast, there’s so many similarities and enough differences that people are going to be like alright, I can get into this,” including that “what Aaron’s done with inviting me back is I think it does open up opportunities for other original cast members to come in and out and play and have little Easter eggs.”
Korsh echoed the identical technique, noting he “wanted to make sure it was an organic bringing people in, not just a parade of old characters.”
With that being mentioned, “I would love to have them all on, [but] I don’t want to have them all on one after the other because I think it harms the original and the new show to do that. So we’re just going to see how it goes.”
As Amell takes over as lead of the franchise, he’s additionally a fan of the Harvey look, saying, “I love that there’s a tie-in. And also if you’re a fan of the original, it’s like OK, it’s been however many years since we’ve seen this character — what is he doing, what is up to, where’s he living, how’s his life? All of that, so you get to find that stuff out.”
Aaron Korsh was immediately satisfied that Amell was the proper match to helm Fits LA, recalling that he knew inside simply “15 seconds” of Amell’s audition.
Korsh stays open to exploring extra alternatives inside the Fits universe, leaving the door broad open for future initiatives.
“We had talked about potentially having a Suits movie at some point but I did have other projects in the works prior to this happening” that he’s additionally engaged on, Korsh mentioned.
“The future is wide open. I’m certainly open to more things happening, but it’s not easy. This show was not [originally] written as to be a Suits spinoff; it takes me a long time to get inspired to do something. I don’t want to do something just because we can, so it remains to be seen.”
Fits LA is out there to observe on Peacock.