Alexi Hawley On Status Of ‘The Rookie’ Spinoff, ‘The Recruit’ Movie & The 2 Shows’ “Chaos Agent” Tie-in

Along with shepherding his ABC hit The Rookie starring Nathan Fillion, collection author/government manufacturer Alexi Hawley has been creating a brand new derivative collection for the community.

As Deadline reported completely in December, the undertaking, written by means of Hawley, is about in Washington state and follows a male cop who’s entering into a brand new segment of lifestyles in his 2nd act.

During an interview tied to the Season 7 finale of The Rookie, Hawley gave Deadline an replace at the doable derivative.

“I’ve been going back and there’s a script, I’ve been doing some drafts and getting some notes,” he stated. “You know me, I’m a hopeful person, so I remain hopeful. I mean, it would be a great thing. So let’s see.”

Deadline additionally requested Craig Erwich, President, Disney Television Group, who oversees ABC, in regards to the standing of the derivative.

“I don’t have any news to share right now,” he stated.

In addition to The Rookie and derivative The Rookie: Feds starring Niecy Nash, which ran on ABC for one season, Hawley additionally created and government produced the Netflix secret agent mystery collection The Recruit, starring Noah Centineo, which used to be just lately cancelled after two seasons.

In addition to their author, The Rookie and The Recruit had different connective tissue: Fillion had a habitual position on The Rookie because the CIA director, as did Felix Solis, who used to be a sequence common on The Rookie: Feds and has been habitual on The Rookie.

Meanwhile, The Rookie has been losing the word “chaos agent,” which is what Centoneo’s persona Owen is referred to as. While addressing whether or not that used to be an twist of fate or no longer, Hawley published what The Recruit may’ve been titled had the Netflix no longer additionally had The Night Agent within the hopper.

“I don’t think that was an accident,” Hawley stated. “I mean, it’s a phrase I use, and it was actually one of the titles tat got kicked around for Recruit way back in the day, but they had Night Agent, and so that got torpedoed. So that wasn’t necessarily a nod to Recruit.”

At the time of The Recruit‘s cancellation, Hawley floated the idea for a movie to wrap up Owen’s tale. Is that also within the playing cards?

“I don’t know. I think it’s still early days on The Recruit side to be talking about a movie or anything,” he stated. “I still am passionate about that world and the story, and would love to revisit at some point with them, but yeah, not at this moment.”