Leverage is getting rebooted as IMDb TVs first major original series

IMDb TV — the Amazon-owned free streaming service that’s part of the popular online movie database — is getting its first major original TV series: a reboot of the 2008 TNT crime show Leverage, via Deadline. The show follows a Robin Hood-esque group of thieves who steal from the rich to help those in need.

According to Dean Devlin, who produced the original series and will return as an executive producer for revival, “Our new series with Amazon Studios and IMDb TV is a re-imagining of the original premise. While Leverage centered on a crusade to avenge the death of a child, this series is propelled forward as a redemption story of misdeeds that need amends.” It’s not clear if the new series will serve as a sequel to the original, which...

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