{"id":2215696,"date":"2025-12-29T17:07:26","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T17:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2215696"},"modified":"2025-12-29T17:07:26","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T17:07:26","slug":"frankie-muniz-bryan-cranston-return-in-malcolm-in-the-middle-revival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/frankie-muniz-bryan-cranston-return-in-malcolm-in-the-middle-revival\/","title":{"rendered":"Frankie Muniz, Bryan Cranston return in \u2018Malcolm in the Middle\u2019 revival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F2%2F2025%2F12%2F117988226.jpg?quality%3D90%26strip%3Dall\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Malcolm is back \u2014 and he\u2019s bringing chaos with him.<\/p>\n<p>The<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=63VTRloLLH4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> first teaser <\/a>for the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/10\/24\/entertainment\/frankie-muniz-drops-malcolm-in-the-middle-revival-reunion-photo-i-was-told-not-to-post-this\/\">\u201cMalcolm in the Middle\u201d revival series<\/a>, officially titled \u201cMalcolm in the Middle: Life\u2019s Still Unfair,\u201d was released Monday, featuring Frankie Muniz as his now-grown up child prodigy character, Malcolm.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy life is fantastic now,\u201d Muniz\u2019s Malcolm says in Disney\u2019s 40-second teaser. \u201cAll I had to do was stay away from my family!\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Frankie Muniz in the \u201cMalcolm in the Middle\u201d revival. <span class=\"credit\">Hulu<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Frankie Muniz as Malcolm. <span class=\"credit\">Hulu<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It\u2019s revealed that Malcolm, who has a daughter named Leah (Keeley Karsten), has spent the last decade hiding from his family, including dad Hal (Bryan Cranston), mom Lois (Jane Kaczmarek) and siblings Francis (Christopher Masterson), Reese (Justin Berfield), Dewey (Caleb Ellsworth-Clarke), Jamie (Anthony Timpano) and Kelly (Vaughan Murrae).<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>But everything changes when Malcolm is invited to his parents\u2019 40th wedding anniversary party.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can\u2019t spend the rest of your life hiding and denying your family even exists,\u201d Malcolm gets told by his girlfriend, Tristan (Kiana Madeira).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt worked perfectly until they showed up,\u201d he responds.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><figcaption>Bryan Cranston (left) in the \u201cMalcolm in the Middle\u201d revival. <span class=\"credit\">Hulu<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Frankie Muniz in the teaser for the \u201cMalcolm in the Middle\u201d revival. <span class=\"credit\">Hulu<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>A scene from the \u201cMalcolm in the Middle: Life\u2019s Still Unfair\u201d teaser. <span class=\"credit\">Hulu<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The official logline for the upcoming four-part series reads, \u201cAfter shielding himself and his daughter from his family for over a decade, Malcolm is dragged back into their orbit when Hal and Lois demand his presence at their 40th anniversary party.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMalcolm in the Middle\u201d aired on Fox from 2000 to 2006, for seven seasons and over 100 episodes.<\/p>\n<p>The entire cast is returning for the revival <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/11\/25\/entertainment\/frankie-muniz-on-erik-per-sullivan-skipping-malcolm-in-the-middle-revival\/\">except Erik Per Sullivan,<\/a> who played Dewey in the original series. Sullivan, 34, retired from acting in 2010.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Jane Kaczmarek, Frankie Muniz, Christopher Kennedy Masterston, Bryan Cranston, Erik Per Sullivan in \u201cMalcolm in the Middle.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">\u00a920thCentFox\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Christopher Kennedy Masterson, Jane Kaczmarek, Frankie Muniz, Bryan Cranston, Justin Berfield and Erik Per Sullivan in \u201cMalcolm in the Middle.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">Fox Broad.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Muniz, 40, exclusively spoke to The Post last month about <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/11\/05\/entertainment\/frankie-muniz-on-quitting-hollywood-malcolm-in-the-middle-revival\/\">how the revival came to be.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe started talking about doing the reboot over ten years ago,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd then Bryan Cranston really kind of took the lead in pushing it. But early on, we sent out an email, me and Bryan, to everybody kind of saying like, \u2018Hey, if this happened, would you guys be interested?\u2019 Just to gauge.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Jane Kaczmarek, Bryan Cranston in \u201cMalcolm in the Middle.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">\u00a920thCentFox\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Frankie Muniz, Bryan Cranston in \u201cMalcolm in the Middle.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">\u00a920thCentFox\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Muniz also gushed over getting to reunite with his former co-stars for the project.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s rare that you get another chance at something, right?\u201d he said. \u201cAlso to be 20 years later and know the impact that the show had on people all around the world. You go into it with a greater appreciation, but also know that people are really going to love it. Normally when you make a movie or TV show, you don\u2019t know if people are going to like it or if it\u2019s going to be good. So I think we made a show that people are going to love.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMalcolm in the Middle: Life\u2019s Still Unfair\u201d premieres April 10 on Hulu and Disney+.<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/10\/24\/entertainment\/frankie-muniz-drops-malcolm-in-the-middle-revival-reunion-photo-i-was-told-not-to-post-this\/#\"\/><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malcolm is back \u2014 and he\u2019s bringing chaos with him. The first teaser for the \u201cMalcolm in the Middle\u201d revival series, officially titled \u201cMalcolm in the Middle: Life\u2019s Still Unfair,\u201d was released Monday, featuring Frankie Muniz as his now-grown up child prodigy character, Malcolm. \u201cMy life is fantastic now,\u201d Muniz\u2019s Malcolm says in Disney\u2019s 40-second [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2215697,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25174],"tags":[316808,21741,358256,25850,22205,306178,21913,306886],"class_list":["post-2215696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gossip","tag-bryan-cranston","tag-entertainment","tag-frankie-muniz","tag-hulu","tag-television","tag-trailers","tag-tv","tag-tv-reboots"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Frankie-Muniz-Bryan-Cranston-return-in-\u2018Malcolm-in-the-Middle.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2215696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2215696"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2215696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2215698,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2215696\/revisions\/2215698"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2215697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2215696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2215696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2215696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}