Writer Ryan Murphy has revealed the details he had to change for the Glee finale, following the untimely death of one of his star's, Cory Monteith.
The show’s creator said that he had planned to reunite Lea Michele and Monteith’s characters in the finale and maintained that he knew how the hit series was going to end from the beginning.
In the original finale, Finn Hudson (Monteith), would be reunited with his on-screen sweetheart, Rachel Berry (Michele, Cory’s off-screen girlfriend).
"For me, Cory was both the beginning and the ending of Glee... literally”, he said in a eulogy that was published in Entertainment Weekly.
"The ending of Glee is something I have never shared with anyone, but I always knew it. I've always relied on it as a source of comfort, a North Star."
The writer continued: "The very last line of dialogue was to be this: Rachel (Michele's character) 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."
Cory Monteith died this year, aged 31.
