Responding to recent report that the cast of the TV series have signed up for the big screen version, creator Ryan Murphy claims there are no current plans to make 'Glee' movie.
- Jun 22, 2010
AceShowbiz - Glee club will not head to big screen anytime soon. Following report which mentions that "Glee" will be made into films, the show creator Ryan Murphy has debunked it. "There will be no 'Glee' movie in the foreseeable future," he tells Entertainment Weekly, before adding "Despite overtures, I and the studio (Fox) have decided we want to put our energy into the second season with no distractions for the cast."
Words that "Glee" could hit cinemas were first run by Hollywood Life which claimed 20th Century Fox Television has the option to get the cast of the musical comedy series to be involved in up to three movies based on the show. The site additionally highlighted a point in the contract signed by the stars such as Dianna Agron and Mark Salling which mentions, "[The actor] hereby grants Fox three exclusive, irrevocable options to engage [the actor] in up to, respectively, three feature length motion pictures."
"Glee", which has Lea Michele and Cory Monteith among the lead stars, has wrapped the first season as the finale episode has been aired on June 8. The series, which centers its story on a high school show choir known as a glee club in the fictional William McKinley High School in Lima, Ohio, will return for the second season and has also been renewed for a third season.
