JARED Padalecki may have already found his next project. The Supernatural actor is reported to be in negotiations to headline the reboot of hit series Walker, Texas Ranger.
He would thus be succeeding Chuck Norris as the ranger in the new project being piloted by CBS Television Studios.
Walker will follow the story of Cordell Walker, a widower with two children.
After having been on an undercover mission for two years, Walker returns to his family and faces new problems while continuing to fight crime with an elite unit.
In a nod to the original series, Walker will be accompanied by a female team member from the original Texas Ranger universe. For the moment, no information has been released about her identity.
Besides being expected to play the new cowboy, Jared Padalecki will also be executive-producing the series alongside Anna Fricke (Being Human), the project’s screenwriter.
While no channel or streaming platform has been officially connected with the project, CBS, which aired the original ‘90s series, and The CW, which airs Supernatural starring Jared Padalecki, are both said to be interested in acquiring it.
CBS has already launched reboots of popular series like MacGyver and Magnum P.I.
Chuck Norris played the now iconic Walker, Texas Ranger, a heavy hitter with witty comebacks, between 1993 and 2001.
The channel had already brought the cowboy back in 2005 in the Walker, Texas Ranger: Trial by Fire TV movie, also with Chuck Norris in the title role.
A Texas native, Jared Padalecki became known to the wider public thanks to the role of Dean in Gilmore Girls and in the science fiction series Supernatural in which he played one of the lead characters alongside Jensen Ackles.
Shown on the The CW channel, Supernatural will draw to a close at the end of its 15th and final season, which will begin airing on American television on October 10. - AFP
