EXCLUSIVE: Chris Colfer is one of the best tune-ins for Fox’s Glee and is sure to be considered for an Emmy. But he’s multi-talented: Not only has he scripting an indie movie shooting this summer, but I’ve learned he has penned a pilot that the Disney Channel is about to shoot. It’s called The Little Leftover Witch, based on a children’s book of the same name by Florence Laughlin. The series would be about a little witch who was taken in by a family after crash-landing from her broom. The book was originally optioned by Rick Fine, the husband of Colfer’s Coast To Coast agent Meredith Fine, who brought the property to Chris to adapt. This is one busy guy even though he only turns 21 this May. After wrapping production on Glee this spring, Colfer joins the cast on tour and then returns to star in the indie feature Struck By Lightning, which he also wrote and which Brian Dannelly (Saved) is set to direct. He will then return for the third season of Glee this fall. Colfer is also repped by Inphenate and attorney Derek Kroeger.




Any way to work the word GLEE onto the poster of this new series is a good thing.
What a talented young man! He’s really quite incredible. (I have to wonder, though, if he ever sleeps? He is always doing so much!)
Is there anything Chris Colfer can’t do?
Grow a mustache or beard? (At this point, anyway…)
You can see some stubble in some episodes of Glee. js
LOL! There’s photos of him with stubble, though, so I think he can even do that!
top.
Thanks for making me spit out my drink.
that’s incredibly rude
I’m so happy for him.He really deserve this and more. I really want to say a lot of things but my english is not good.
¡Por siempre amando y apoyando a Christopher Paul Colfer! ?
Holy smokes, Chris, you need to step it up a little. I don’t think you’re busy or talented enough.
Why does he deserve this and not an ACTUAL writer?
Maybe because he’s talented enough to do both? Jesus, just be happy for him.
That may be the saddest post I’ve ever seen. A kid works his ass off and you complain that he’s not an ACTUAL writer? What is wrong with you?
He is a writer, just because he is an actor does not mean that he doesn’t have passions else where.
He has worked hard to get to where he is.
I dream of a world where Ryan Murphy missed his pitch meeting that day.
Only someone who doesn’t write would make such a comment.
What does this comment even mean? He WROTE the script and Disney liked it so they bought it. That makes him an “ACTUAL” writer.
You do realize that he was writing before he was even on Glee? He wrote a school play and also started writing his movie (which they’re filming this summer) when he was a teenager.
I’d say he “deserves” it because he has talent.
You know way too much about this kid…
Or all of this has been mentioned in a single article about him when it was announced he was filming his screenplay. Sorry that you have a problem with reporters being thorough in their work!
Chris did a lot of writing in HS. He had to prep his own Forensics pieces to perform for tournaments that he proceeded to win in his category. He passed up the National tournament to go try out for Glee. Yes, I do know some about him as he went to school with my dd. They were on the Forensics Team together.
We are all proud of him here & wish him even more success! A nicer person couldn’t deserve it!
Chris Colfer must be a professional Overachieveror something.
He works so hard and deserves everything he gets.
Proud mama moment.
Amazing. Someone who can sing, dance and act is a triple threat but what is someone who can sing, dance, act, and write? A quadruple threat? Is there anyone else in all of Hollywood who can do this? He’s won a Golden Globe, had songs on the top of the music charts, written a screenplay that is actually being made into a movie and now written a pilot, too. And he’s not even 21. Really, I mean it. Name one other person in all of Hollywood who has done anything like this. Would you have to go back to someone like Orson Wells or something?
It’s Disney, not HBO. Let’s calm down a bit with the Orson Wells comparisons.
He and his reps are smart. guess what? He’s on a hit tv show people are going ton take the meeting and or buy whatever he is selling to be in business and associated with him. Happens every day. Use it when you’ have it. Anyone say.sea crest?
Maybe I’m missing the excitement here, but beyond his relationship with his dad I find his character on Glee to be cloying and fairly irritating, and not in the love-to-hate-her Rachel way.
I agree. Though that is not to say that I don’t appreciate his considerable talent. He didn’t win the Golden Globe for nothing.
This isn’t his fault. More of Ryan Murphy’s poor writing. Chris Colfer is just acting the part (quite nicely, I thought.
I like Kurt when he is annoying and bitchy… It makes him more human and balances Mr Too-good-to-be-true-Blaine.