Ryan Murphy says the Glee reboot script is finished, and the project has already reached around 10 original cast members. That puts the reboot past the idea stage and into actual writing, which is a different level of commitment for a show that ran from 2009 to 2015.
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Murphy said the script was written with Brad Falchuk and Ian Brennan, the same pair who helped shape the first two seasons of the original Glee. At the Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan cast Lizzie Borden in Monster: Netflix project, his current partnership history shows how often he returns to the same creative core when he is building a franchise step by step.
“It's very sweet, and they all had a lot of questions, but they all were very enthusiastic about the idea.” He said that about the original cast members he has been in touch with, a group that includes roughly 10 people rather than the full ensemble.
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That limitation is the story’s real business constraint. Corey Monteith died in 2013 before filming the fifth season, Mark Salling died in 2018 after being indicted on charges of receiving and possessing child pornography, and Naya Rivera drowned in 2020, so a full reunion is not a realistic production plan.
The surviving cast still gives Murphy a workable pool, but it also means any reboot would have to be built around partial returns, not nostalgia in its purest form. Lea Michele, Melissa Benoist, and others from the show’s orbit are part of the broader history around the series, yet the source only says Murphy has talked with around 10 original cast members and does not name who is in or out.
Ryan Murphy expands Monster on a different track, but this reboot is the cleaner signal for where his television pipeline is headed: a finished script is a development milestone, not a green light. For readers who care about Glee, the practical takeaway is simple — the writing is done, the contact list is active, and the casting math is already narrower than the original series ever was.
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Murphy has not said which original cast members will return or when production might begin. The next real checkpoint is whether the completed script turns into a formal production push, because until then the reboot is still a script on a desk, not a show on a schedule.
