Speculation is rife that a Malcolm in the Middle reunion could be on the cards after two of the show’s stars, Breaking Bad star Bryan Cranston and the sitcom’s lead actor Frankie Muniz, both spoke about desires to see the show reappear on screens.
How fun would "Malcolm In The Mid-life Crisis" be? I wonder what Malcolm and his family would be up to now!
— Frankie Muniz (@frankiemuniz) September 7, 2015
The comedy show about a boy genius and his erratic family made stars of its young and older cast, and featured guest performances from Susan Sarandon, Betty White, Christopher Lloyd, and Emma Stone, and is considered an influential series in redeveloping family sitcoms in the 21st century.
The final episode of Malcolm in the Middle, in which the eponymous Malcolm graduates from high school while his father Hal (Cranston) struggles to find the money to send him to college, was broadcast in 2006, and since the show's finale, only Cranston has seen his career develop significantly.
But in a recent interview with Entertainment Tonight Canada, the actor – whose forthcoming role as a blacklisted screenwriter in McCarthy-era Hollywood in Trumbo is being tipped to get Cranston his first Oscar nomination – told his interviewer about how much he'd like to take back up the role of Hal.
"It's been 10 years since we went off the air and it’d be fun to pick up that guy’s clothes again and be fun and sweet and adorable and hapless and clueless and afraid of everything," the actor told ET Canada.
But one of the show's stars is less enthused; Jane Kaczmarek, who played the battleaxe matriarch Lois, said in December 2014 that she had doubts about bringing the show back:
“I don't want to see old Lois,”she told a journalist. “Everyone’s going to have different vision of what the character is like, so to have that materialize is going to disappoint most people,” she added.
