SCRUBS Cast and Creator Say They're All In to Make a Follow-Up Movie to the Beloved Comedy Series
Scrubs fans have reason to celebrate after this past weekend’s reunion with the cast and creator of the show at ATX TV Festival. Stars Zach Braff, Donald Faison, Sarah Chalke, John C. McGinley, Judy Reyes and Neil Flynn were in attendance, with Bill Lawrence, who created the series, and is now working on his great new show, Ted Lasso.
The group reminisced about the hit comedy, and talked about its resurgence since the launch of Braff and Faison’s Scrubs-themed podcast, Fake Doctors, Real Friends with Zach and Donald.
They were, of course, asked about whether they’d all be up for bringing the show back in any capacity, seeing as how that’s a pretty common practice these days with shows as successful as theirs.
Variety, who hosted the panel, reported that they all agreed they wanted to do it, but Lawrence is so busy. Faison said:
“I think we all want it. We all would love to work together again. It’s just that it’s really hard. It can’t be a full season of a show — it would have to be a movie or something like that, where you could only give a couple of months to it. Everyone is doing things.”
He then motioned to the creator, and added, “This dude’s never going to be free again.” Braff then compared the project to “E.T,” noting that E.T. would would only do “E.T. 2” if Steven Spielberg was doing it.
But Lawrence set the record straight, saying he is definitely in on a new Scrubs project. He shared:
“We’re gonna do it because we’re lucky enough that people care. Top to bottom, we enjoy spending time with each other. If you ever have an excuse to work with people that you’d want to spend time with anyways, run to it… It’s worth it to me to see Neil back in that jumpsuit again.”
Flynn sternly quipped back:
“It’s not a jumpsuit, it’s a shirt and pants.”
So it looks like we can officially count on a Scrubs reunion movie! That’s great news. It was such a fun, warm, sweet series, and it will be great to see the cast back in their roles. Are you looking forward to this new Scrubs project? All episodes of the series are currently streaming on Hulu.