This BONES Star Has Ideas for a Reboot

Published: October 11, 2024

This BONES Star Has Ideas for a Reboot

Movieguide® Contributor

David Boreanaz starred as FBI Agent Seeley Booth in all 12 seasons of BONES, and he’s ready for more.

“The dynamic between these two characters was really fun to play,” he said of his role and Emily Deschanel’s forensic anthropologist character, “and if there’s happiness and joy in it, it would be easy; it wouldn’t be difficult or hard. Obviously, [a revival] would be limited. It wouldn’t be this long, lengthy thing, but also working with her would be great. Trust me: It’s not something that I’m focused on right now in my life where I’m at presently, but it’s the one show that I would consider — and I will say, consider.”

“When I really look at it, it’s the type of show that was so revered and loved, and I don’t want to say mindless, but it’s mindless entertainment when you really think about it,” he said.

Boreanaz just finished SEAL TEAM, which had its final hurrah last Sunday. So now would be a great time for a BONES reboot.

Movieguide® reported Boreanaz’s feelings about SEAL TEAM’s end:

Boreanaz previously told Parade, “For me, the character’s done, I’m done playing the series, I’m done with the show regardless if you want to go on or not…”

“What excited me about ending the show was ending the character altogether,” said Boreanaz. “Because that’s what happens every time you come off a Blackhawk helicopter on a mission.”

“There have been conversations about stepping back [into those roles] and doing a sequence of the show somewhere — which is an easy show to recreate,” he said of BONES. “It’s not rocket science, right? It’s something that you can just jump in and out of, which would be fun to do.”

“That’s definitely a show that I feel is an easier thing to revisit, if I did, and something that would be fun if it’s a small little hit run, or something,” he told Collider. “That’s something I would never decline to take on because it would be fun to see where Booth is and where Temperance Brennan is, and those other characters, especially their relationship and how it’s evolved over the years.”

“Being in Quantico and at the actual FBI recently, I was like, ‘I’m home! Booth is home!’ What you could do and start from there alone would be great,” the actor continued. “I was walking Quantico and the FBI, and I was like, ‘Imagine doing this great walk-and-talk here and having to find a body where the FBI is. That’d be hilarious!’ So you never know…”

He has fun imagining where the show’s characters would be today.

“Booth probably would be getting honored in Quantico, at the actual FBI. We would have a daughter who was at least 15, 16,” he said. “She’d be entering college, probably studying the tactics of wanting to be an FBI agent, which would drive her mother crazy. And maybe she changes course and has a forensic anthropology class within that study of becoming an FBI agent. Who knows?”

“I think Booth is not really active and retired, and has to be drawn back into a case, to solve something that happened on the grounds of the FBI,” he continued. “I think Brennan just keeps writing books and getting accolades. She’d be on the New York Times bestsellers lists, probably finishing another book tour, and she’s in the middle of the book tour and has to get to the FBI in light of this award that I’m getting. And then s— hits the fan. I can see it, man!”

Boreanaz had a great time when he worked with Deschanel and looks forward to it again.

“I miss her sunshine, her smile, her will to stretch the boundaries of a scene,” he said.

“What’s great about her is that she’s so willing to do the work, and be there for you,” he added. “That’s what I miss so much about her. I don’t think I ever got mad at Emily. That’s just an energy thing, and I miss her so much. I speak very fondly of her, and we still talk.”

Deschanel isn’t as eager about a reboot but is not opposed to it.

“I was surprised that he said that he’d be open to it because he’s always said he’s not open to it,” Deschanel said. “I never really thought that would happen, just because he wouldn’t be interested.”

“I mean, sure, I’m open to things,” she said. “I don’t know if that makes sense, but I never say never.”