It's Official! Glee Reboot Greenlit by Hulu and Disney+

This story originally appeared on Out.Don't stop believin', Gleeks!A reboot of the legendary teen musical phenomenon many fans have pined for — a revival almost as many have dreaded — is indeed happening, according to Variety.Disney+ and Hulu have greenlit a streaming reboot of Glee, to be helmed by original series creator and queer television wunderkind Ryan Murphy. In July, Murphy hinted this was coming, telling People about his interest in bringing back the series and updating it for today's audience. "My nostalgia and love for that show is enough that I’m like, ‘Well, maybe people would like to see a new incarnation of that in some capacity.' So yeah, I love that show and I loved what it became and what it meant to so many people," he said.Now the question is, which surviving members of the original cast will be returning to William McKinley High alongside the new characters? Murphy recently told Entertainment Tonight he's been talking with some of them after collaborating with the writers of the first two seasons on a script: Brad Falchuk and Ian Brennan. "I’ve been in touch with around 10 of the original cast members. It’s very sweet, and they all had a lot of questions, but they all were very enthusiastic about the idea.”Chris Colfer, who played Kurt Hummel, recently revealed he wasn't one of those 10 actors and would find it difficult to return to the out gay character, given the deaths of co-stars Cory Monteith, Mark Salling and Naya Rivera. "It was a really tough show to do, and it would be really hard to do it now that Naya is gone," Colfer said. "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."That's a big change from what Colfer said in 2019: "That's not for me," he told USA Today at that time. "No amount of money can take from me the memories I have of then, but no amount of money can m