Glen Powell can be reuniting with Scream Queens creator and producing powerhouse Ryan Murphy for an upcoming Broadway musical.
“Ryan Murphy and I, we’re truly making a musical collectively,” Powell, 35, stated in a current interview with Vogue. “We don’t actually have any plans to be again within the tv world collectively, however we’ll be on Broadway collectively.”
Scream Queens premiered on Fox in 2015, and Powell’s position as Chad Radwell within the horror-comedy sequence set his profession on an upward trajectory that has grown exponentially in recent times.
Powell starred in final yr’s field workplace smash success Prime Gun: Maverick and is producing buzz for his new romantic comedy, Anybody However You, reverse love curiosity Sydney Sweeney. He instructed Vogue that Scream Queens remains to be the position that excites Powell’s followers essentially the most.
“The quantity of those that come as much as me about Scream Queens is stunning, most likely greater than anything I’ve achieved,” Powell instructed Vogue. “Possibly it ages like a superb wine.”
Whereas Powell didn’t reveal any particulars concerning the upcoming musical, he joked about reprising his position as Chad Radwell on the stage.
“The Chad Radwell Musical. That’s the funniest thought. Simply the Dickie Greenback Students,” he stated.
Murphy, 58, cocreated Scream Queens together with his Glee collaborators Brad Falchuk and Ian Brennan. The satirical slasher sequence adopted a bunch of girls in a sorority who’re being focused by a serial killer on their school campus.
Powell performed a lovingly ignorant frat bro alongside ensemble solid members Emma Roberts, Skyler Samuels, Lea Michele, Diego Boneta, Abigail Breslin, Jamie Lee Curtis and Keke Palmer. The campy present earned Most Thrilling New Collection on the 2015 Critics’ Alternative Tv Awards. The sequence was canceled after two seasons in 2017.
Murphy, who has created and produced profitable exhibits similar to Nip/Tuck, Glee, American Horror Story, American Crime Story, Pose and Dahmer, is without doubt one of the greatest names in tv however has labored on stage productions earlier than. He ventured onto the stage in 2019, successful the Tony Award for Finest Revival of a Play for his position as a producer in The Boys within the Band.
Powell may also be starring in a reimagined model of the 1996 catastrophe movie Tornado subsequent yr. Describing the movie as a “standalone story within the modern-day,” Powell channeled recommendation from his Prime Gun costar Tom Cruise in deciding to take the position.
“After I was engaged on Prime Gun, [Tom] Cruise introduced up a extremely attention-grabbing factor, the place he’s like, ‘If you wish to make films of a sure measurement and scope and scale, it’s important to work out what can join with everybody all over the world in each territory,’” Powell instructed Vogue. “And people versus climate is a really common thought — how powerless we actually are within the face of those cataclysmic forces.”