In a recent podcast, the writer and showrunner of the music series “Glee”, Ryan Murphy, expressed regret over the continuation of the series after the sudden death of Cory Monteith in 2013.
In a podcast posted yesterday, And That’s What You Really MissedRyan Murphy, screenwriter and showrunner of the series Glee, returned to the tragic death of actor Cory Monteith, who was one of the headliners, in 2013.
“If we had to do it again, we would have stopped a long time ago and we probably wouldn’t come back” he comments. The show’s creator says that if he were in a similar situation today, “I would say it’s the end”.
Adding: Because you can’t really recover from something like that. It wasn’t like a normal death where someone is sick, and you can see that. It happened so quickly without warning…”
Died at 31, following a heroin overdose, Corey Monteith was to start filming season 5 of the musical series. Ryan Murphy and his writers then made the decision to “kill” his character, Finn, and the 3rd episode of season 5 was entirely devoted to him. The series ended after six seasons in 2015.
It should also be noted that a three-part documentary on the very eventful behind the scenes of the series was recently commissioned by Discovery+. And it promises to be explosive, between the death of Cory Monteith therefore; the arrest of Mark Salling (Puck) for possession of child pornography, then his suicide; the death of Naya Rivera (Santana) who had shared in her book her aversion to “the diva” Lea Michele (Rachel), the accusations of racism…