Glee creator Ryan Murphy has revealed what he had planned for the show’s series finale involving co-star Cory Monteith.
In a new interview with Entertainment Weekly, Murphy says his plan for the Glee series finale was to reunite Rachel and Finn in Ohio after the former had moved away to New York for a Broadway role.
“Rachel was going to have become a big Broadway star, the role she was born to play,” he says, “Finn was going to have become a teacher, settled down happily in Ohio, at peace with his choice and no longer feeling like a Lima loser.”
Murphy says that in the last moments of the show, Rachel would make a surprise return to the school where he worked, “Rachel comes back to Ohio, fulfilled and yet not, and walks into Finn’s glee club. ‘What are you doing here?’ he would ask. ‘I’m home,’ she would reply. Fade out. The End.”
The creator had previously teased that up until Monteith’s death, he already knew how the show was going to end. “I always knew how it would end,” Murphy said in October. “I knew what the last shot was – [Cory] was in it. I knew what the last line was – she said it to him.” Today’s new blurb from Murphy appears to be that ending.
Despite having to scrap this planned finale, Murphy says that he has a new outcome for the show in mind that will honor Cory/Finn.
In recent months Fox has suggested that Glee’s sixth season will be its last, which means the show should come to a close around summer 2015.
Until then we still have much of Glee‘s fifth season. The show resumes with new episodes beginning Tuesday, February 25 at 8 p.m. eastern/pacific.