ANSWERS: Ryan Murphy clears up “Glee” questions!

You gotta wonder if Ryan Murphy is going to start thinking twice about giving revealing interviews about the future direction of Glee after the most recent fiasco involving cast members Chris Colfer, Lea Michele and Cory Monteith.
 

After Murphy told The Hollywood Reporter earlier this month that the trio would be written off the show after the upcoming season three, fellow Glee producer Brad Falchuk contradicted that at Comic-Com last week.

In an interview with Deadline Hollywood, Murphy gives us an update: “When I did that interview [with THR], what was happening was we were asked to investigate doing a spin-off and it was a spin-off specifically for three of them, Chris, Cory and Lea,” Murphy explains. ”We weren’t allowed to talk about a spin-off. It was too premature. We didn’t want to do it then. The idea was to do it this fall when Glee gets back on the air. Then, to pick up and read the actors saying, ‘We found out we were fired from Twitter.’ All of us, the studio, the network, were like, ‘OK, that isn’t exactly cool,’ because we involved all three of them in that decision. So then what happened is that we decided, ‘OK, let’s not do it.’ So that’s where we are today.”

He was very clear, however, that the actors were never fired: “When I say they’re seniors and they’re not coming back to the show, what I did not say is they’re not coming back to the show because there will be another show. What Brad [Falchuk] said last weekend at Comic-Con is now correct: they’re graduating. What we wanted is to get people away from this idea that the actors were fired which is ludicrous. Nobody was fired. They were talked to for months about the show.”

The spin-off is no longer in the works, says Murphy: “We were [going forward with it]. Not now.”