MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE Team Considering Full Reboot With Additional Characters and New Circumstances
The limited series reboot Malcolm in the Middle: Life’s Still Unfair is less than two weeks away from premiering, and the creators are feeling so good about the new terrain of storytelling, they’re considering extended the show’s return into a full reboot.
In the limited series, everyone’s favorite dysfunctional family — first introduced on Fox in 2000, reunites, much to the chagrin of Frankie Muniz’s title character.
Now estranged from his loud-mouthed clan, happily partnered and with a similarly neurotic daughter, Malcolm is forced to enter the fore amid Hal (Bryan Cranston) and Lois’ (Jane Kaczmarek) 40th wedding anniversary celebration.
With many original cast members returning (except Erik Per Sullivan’s Dewey, now recast with Caleb Ellsworth-Clark), Kiana Madeira joins as Malcolm’s girlfriend Tristan, while Keeley Karsten plays his daughter Leah.
When asked by Entertainment Weekly for the publication’s cover story if a reboot, potentially a gender-swapped spinoff now centering on Leah, could be next, Kaczmarek replied: “It’s a whole new set of characters and circumstances that are ripe.”
Meanwhile, revival executive producer Tracy Katsky Boomer noted, “She could absolutely hold a show.” Original show creator Linwood Boomer, who also serves as EP on Malcolm in the Middle: Life’s Still Unfair, added: “Keeley is an undiscovered star. As a performer, she has this crazy potential that would be silly for show business not to use.”
Additionally, while Muniz is now focused on being a full-time NASCAR driver, he told EW that he would be open to further acting projects down the line.
So we will have to see what the fan response is for these first four episodes, premiering April 10th, and see where the show goes from there. Would you be happy to see Malcom in the Middle return for a longer stay?
via: Deadline