Ryan Murphy finishes Glee reboot script with original creators
Ryan Murphy has finished writing a script for a Glee reboot.
He told Entertainment Tonight he had completed the draft about an hour before speaking to them. The comments were reported by Deadline on 24 September 2026.
Murphy said he wrote the script with Brad Falchuk and Ian Brennan. The trio created the original series together. A reboot, in television terms, means a new version of a familiar show, and a script is only the first step before any channel or streamer orders episodes.
In the usual commissioning process, writers finish a script first. A buyer then decides whether to order a pilot, a single test episode, or to go straight to series, meaning no pilot is shot first. None of those orders has been announced here.
Murphy said he had been in touch with around 10 original cast members about the idea. He said they were very enthusiastic about a reunion. He added that nobody beyond the three writers had yet read the script. Nobody has read it yet.
Glee aired on Fox, the United States broadcast network, for six seasons from 2009 to 2015. It centred on a high-school glee club, a choir that sings and performs choreographed routines. It starred Lea Michele, Matthew Morrison, Cory Monteith, Dianna Agron and Naya Rivera, as listed by PEOPLE. The series was created by Murphy, Falchuk and Brennan.
The new script follows earlier public thinking about a revival. Murphy told PEOPLE in July that he loves the show and had wondered about bringing it back because many young people still watch it. Those July remarks came before the September script news, so the completed draft is the latest position. Lea Michele has also spoken about the potential for a reboot in recent months, according to Yahoo Entertainment.
The original idea started as a film script by Brennan about a glee club. Murphy said producer Michael Novick approached him with that script, in a 2011 interview with Deadline. That film idea later developed into the Fox series.
For viewers, this means there is a draft to consider, but no confirmed show yet. No broadcaster, episode count or casting has been announced. A script on its own does not put a show in a slot. Someone still has to commission it, fund it and schedule it, work that decides hundreds of crew jobs if it goes ahead.
