Ryan Murphy now openly threatening planet with a Glee reunion

This is per Deadline, which reports that Murphy told Entertainment Tonight on Wednesday night that he’d “just finished” a script for a reunion of the Fox musical comedy series, presumably in case any journalists in attendance randomly asked him if he intended to reboot Glee any time soon. And while Ryan Murphy writing a script for something isn’t quite as seismic as if he was someone who doesn’t write, by our estimation, a solid 24 hours of television every single year, it does make it clear that he’s been hearing the call of the Gleeks loud and clear lately.

Murphy said he worked on the script with original co-creators Brad Falchuk and Ian Brennan, and has reached out to “around 10 of the original cast members” to gauge interest in coming back. (It feels worth noting that this project hasn’t been, like, officially set up at any networks or anything, although it’s not like we’d expect that to stop Murphy once he’s on a roll.) “It’s very sweet, and they all had a lot of questions, but they all were very enthusiastic about the idea,” the TV mastermind said of the cast’s reactions to the reunion plans, while cautioning that, “Nobody’s read it, so I don’t know, we’ll see. I vowed to myself that I wanted to write a couple of them to see what people think, particularly the cast, cause we were very close when we were making it.”

Although not his first success—he’d already had Popular and Nip/Tuck on the air years earlier—Glee was an evolution in Murphy’s public persona; over the course of its massively popular six-season run on Fox, he went from a writer and occasional director with an oddball taste in projects to “Ryan Murphy, guaranteed TV hit maker.” No wonder, then, that he might want to get the New Directions gang back together again.