Glee fans left 'terrified' as reboot is made official despite 'death curse' as some beg 'don't ruin our masterpiece'

Glee is officially being rebooted it was announced on Wednesday morning despite 'death curse' theories and fan pushback.

The official Instagram page for Ryan Murphy's teen musical drama posted a graphic which said: 'It's official Glee is returning.'

The Daily Mail has reached out to several Glee cast memebers for comment and has yet to hear back. 

Many fans, AKA 'Gleeks,' reacted to the news on the post as the reception was relatively mixed with some feeling negatively about the legacy of the show being tainted especially after the deaths of main cast members Cory Monteith, Mark Salling and Naya Rivera.

One wrote: 'this is lowkey scary. Pls don’t ruin our masterpiece [eyes wide open emoji].'

Another Gleek said: 'Terrified. The only way I see this working is with the kids of the original glee club members all on their own journeys in their schools. Please don’t mess this up! [laughing emoji].'

A different fan referenced Rivera's death as they wrote: 'whatever you do, do NOT even think about having santana die on the show.' 

The original Glee was centered around a group of high school show choir members from Lima, Ohio as it first premiered on Fox in 2009 and concluded in 2015 after six seasons. 

There are not too many other details regarding the reboot as Disney did not share much other than it is being produced that 20th Television and will air on Hulu and Disney+.

Last month, Murphy, 60, revealed that he had just finished the script for a Glee revival despite three of the show's biggest stars tragically dying within seven years of one another.

Murphy was on the red carpet of the American Horror Story season 13 event on Wednesday, September 23 when he was queried about the rumors Glee is coming back.

He told Entertainment Tonight at the time: 'Well, funny you ask, because I just finished the script an hour ago.

'We have a script. Brad [Falchuk], Ian [Brennan] and I, who wrote all the first two seasons, have written something.'

The showrunner went on to say that the wheels are fully in motion as he has been in contact with several original cast members who are excited about possibly returning to the series.

Murphy explained: 'I’ve been in touch with around 10 of the original cast members, and it’s very sweet.

'They’ve all had a lot of questions, but they all were very enthusiastic about the idea.'

However, fans of the show - who are referred to as 'Gleeks' - should not bank on the revival happening just yet as he just finished the script.

He said: 'Nobody’s read it, so I don’t know; we’ll see.

'I mean, 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.' 

The three deaths of main Glee cast members rocked fans of the series beginning with Monteith, who died of an accidental overdose in 2013 at 31 years old. Monteith played the beloved Finn Hudson on the musical comedy-drama series that aired on Fox network from 2009 to 2015.

 Five years later, Salling took his own life in January 2018 at 35 years old while awaiting federal sentencing after pleading guilty to possession of child pornography. He played Noah ‘Puck’ Puckerman, a tough high school football player and Finn’s best friend who eventually joined the glee club. 

And lastly two years after that, Rivera died in July 2020 at the age of 33, from accidental drowning after using all her energy to save her four-year-old son, Josey, instead at Lake Piru in California. She played Santana Lopez, a cheerleading sidekick who was a bit of an antagonist and evolved into a gifted vocalist.

Much has been made about the 'Glee curse,' but one star recently went on an expletive-laced tirade to defend his late co-stars who tragically died.  

Kevin McHale, now 38, played the sweet, wheelchair-using Artie Abrams in Glee, but the star came out swinging and dropped the f-bomb twice in a blunt statement on X back in July criticizing fans for their online conspiracy theories regarding the deaths of his three former co-stars

'Let me log off today because the way too many of you talk about real people who have passed as a "sacrifice" or a "curse" in regards to a tv show is f***ing diabolical and untethered from any sort of humanity or reality,' McHale furiously wrote, adding: 'get f***ed.'

While he didn't mention his co-stars by name, his condemnation of social media users discussing their deaths as a 'sacrifice' and 'curse' clearly underlined his loyalty.

McHale, who previously slammed the Discovery+ documentary series The Price of Glee, was very close to Monteith, and had an exceptionally strong bond with Rivera during and after Glee aired as he very deeply and publicly mourned her after she died.

Not long after her body was recovered, McHale posted a devastated tribute on Instagram, writing: 'I legitimately cannot imagine this world without you.'

McHale, however, previously admitted he and his co-stars have joked about the show being cursed, but insisted they were just using humor to deal with a difficult situation.

'We make jokes about a curse, which makes a lot of people uncomfortable,' he said on the Elvis Duran Show in 2024.

'The amount of times we've said some things that everyone gets really quiet, we're like, "No no, you [don’t] understand, if we don't laugh about this we will all just be sad."'

A 2023 documentary, The Price of Glee, also expanded on the idea of the show being cursed by detailing the untimely deaths of five crew members of the show, per E! News.

Second team lead and background wrangler Jim Fuller and a 'lead prop guy' named Paul both died after suffering heart attacks, and Mark Watson, a 'main stand-in' for series star Matthew Morrison, lost his life in a 'car fire.'

In addition, production assistant Nancy Motes took her own life, and rigging gaffer J.A. Byerly revealed his brother and colleague also died by suicide after the show ended.

'I think it unfortunately is just a lot of horrible coincidences and accidents,' McHale said on the Elvis Duran Show.

'It's a big cast of a lot of young people and things happen. I think things happen on other shows as well and you're working with crew members and things happen to crew members, you're not necessarily hearing about that.

'But I just think a lot of unfortunate really horrible accidents do happen,' he added.