After his latest success with the serial killer drama Dahmer – Monster and psychological thriller The Watcher, writer-producer Ryan Murphy appears to be on the lookout for one thing extra upbeat and cheerful for his subsequent undertaking. Could that be the return of Glee?
Speaking on the And That’s What You REALLY Missed podcast (by way of ScreenRant), the multi-time Emmy winner mentioned, “I’m at the phase now with that show [Glee], you know, where it’s like, well, there’s been enough time. Like, maybe we should really re-examine it as a brand.
“You know, should we do a reboot of it in some way? Should we do a Broadway musical of it in some way?”
Created by Murphy, Brad Falchuk, and Ian Brennan, Glee centered on a highschool present choir, also called a glee membership, within the fictional William McKinley High School in Lima, Ohio. The musical comedy-drama ran for six seasons on Fox from 2009 to 2015 and launched the careers of Lea Michele, Darren Criss, Amber Riley, and extra.
The present was an enormous hit with viewers however was additionally concerned in its justifiable share of controversy, particularly, the present’s choice to proceed following the demise of forged member Cory Monteith in 2013. Murphy touched on that call through the podcast, noting, “If I had to do it again, we would’ve stopped for a very long time and probably not come back.”
“I would be like, ‘that’s the end.’ Because you can’t really recover from something like that,” he added. “It wasn’t, like, a normal death where someone is sick, and you can see them. It happened so quickly with no warning.”
Monteith was discovered useless on July 13, 2013, in his room on the Fairmont Pacific Rim resort in Vancouver. He was 31 years outdated. An post-mortem report said that the actor died from “a mixed drug toxicity” consisting of heroin and alcohol and that his demise appeared to have been unintentional.
Glee, Seasons 1-6, Streaming Now, Disney+ and Hulu