Glee reboot: The US high school musical comedy-drama is to return on Hulu and Disney+

In a recent interview with Entertainment Tonight, co-creator Murphy confirmed he had written a reboot script with collaborators Brad Falchuk and Ian Brennan.

He also said he had “been in touch with around 10 of the original cast members”.

“It’s very sweet, they all had a lot of questions but they all were very enthusiastic about the idea,” he said. “Nobody’s read it, so we’ll see.”

He added: “I vowed to myself that I wanted to write a couple of them to see what people think, particularly the cast, because we were very close when we were making it.”

It came after Michelle, who played Rachel Berry, the ambitious singer at the centre of the club, had told E! News that she – like Lynch – would be more than happy to return.

“I will always love Glee,” she said. “I love Ryan Murphy. It just holds such a special place in my heart for me… I will follow Ryan wherever he goes.”

Speaking to Bustle recently, another star of the show, Chris Colfer, admitted that any such reboot would be difficult following the death of Naya Rivera, who played Glee club favourite Santana Lopez.

“It was a really tough show to do, and it would be really hard to do it now that Naya is gone,” said Colfer, who portrayed Kurt Hummel – the flamboyant singer and original choir member who faces bullying at the school.

“But I do know that Glee fans would probably come after me with pitchforks and jazz hands if I said no. So I don’t know, but hopefully I’ll have more information and I can actually think about it.”

Rivera died in 2020 at the age of 33 in an accidental drowning.

Hers was the third death among the Glee cast. Monteith, who played football star turned singer Finn Hudson, died in 2013 at the age of 31 from a toxic mix of alcohol and heroin.

Mark Salling, another Glee cast member, took his own life in 2018 at the age of 35 while awaiting sentencing on child pornography charges.

A mini Glee reunion occurred on Sunday at London’s Royal Albert Hall, when Darren Criss, aka Glee’s Blaine Anderson, brought out Colfer for a duet of the song Baby It’s Cold Outside.

Earlier this month, former Glee co-stars Harry Shum Jr and Amber Riley reunited on Dancing with the Stars.