We're quickly approaching the thirtieth anniversary of one of the most beloved comedy films of all-time, GROUNDHOG DAY, and over the years, there has been plenty of talk about some form of a sequel. Bill Murray reprised his role of Phil Connors for a Jeep commercial which aired during the SuperBowl earlier this year, and now it seems that a TV series based on the film could be in the works as well.
Stephen Tobolowsky, who played Ned Ryerson in GROUNDHOG DAY, spoke on The Production Meeting Podcast to reveal that a producer has approached him about reprising his role of Ned for a TV series.
There’s talk about a Groundhog Day series in the works. One of the producers – I was working on The Goldbergs or [the spin-off series] Schooled, one of those shows over on the Sony lot, and one of the producers saw me and goes, ‘Oh, Stephen! Stephen! We’re working on a Groundhog Day TV show. Could you be Ned for the TV show?’ I go, ‘Sure. Yeah. No problem.’…But it’s Ned thirty years later. What has his life become?
Hollywood loves a time-loop. Of course, you shouldn't take this as a guarantee that a GROUNDHOG DAY series will actually see the light of day, but it would be interesting to see how they would approach the concept for a weekly series. So far, the closest we've come to any sort of GROUNDHOG DAY sequel is the virtual-reality game titled Groundhog Day: Like Father Like Son, which finds the son of Bill Murray's character caught in a time loop of his own.