Malcolm in the Middle: Life's Still Unfair

Malcolm in the Middle: Life's Still Unfair^[1] is an upcoming American television sitcom miniseries created by Linwood Boomer for the streaming service Hulu. It is a revival of Malcolm in the Middle (2000–2006), produced by Satin City Productions, Regency Television, and 20th Television

Malcolm in the Middle: Life's Still Unfair will consist of four 30-minute episodes, which is scheduled for release in 2026.

Set approximately 20 years after the end of the original series, the miniseries follows the titular Malcolm as he now lives with his daughter Leah and girlfriend Tristan. He is forced to bring them into his birth family's chaos when his parents Hal and Lois demand his presence for their 40th wedding anniversary party.

• Frankie Muniz as Malcolm, the third child and middle son of Hal and Lois with a genius IQ of 165, who now has a daughter.
• Jane Kaczmarek as Lois, the family's temperamental and overbearing but intelligent and decisive matriarch.
• Bryan Cranston as Hal, the family's well-meaning and loving but inept and immature patriarch who chronically depends on Lois.
• Christopher Masterson as Francis, Hal and Lois's oldest and most rebellious child, who was sent to military school for bad behavior, dropped out, emancipated himself, and worked multiple odd jobs across the United States before getting a stable job at a large tech company.
• Emy Coligado as Piama, Francis's Alaskan Native wife, whom he married while living in Alaska.
• Justin Berfield as Reese, Hal and Lois's second and most impulsive child, who lacks common sense but excels at cooking, and became a high school janitor at the end of the original series.
• Caleb Ellsworth-Clark as Dewey, Hal and Lois's often-ignored fourth child with a gift for music. Erik Per Sullivan portrayed Dewey in the original series.
• Anthony Timpano as Jamie, Hal and Lois's fifth child and youngest son. James and Lukas Rodriguez portrayed Jamie in the original series.
• Vaughan Murrae as Kelly, Hal and Lois's self-sufficient and studious youngest child. Her existence is teased in the finale of the original series when Lois discovers she is pregnant again.
• Keeley Karsten as Leah, Malcolm's daughter.
• Kiana Madeira as Tristan, Malcolm's girlfriend.
• Craig Lamar Traylor as Stevie Kenarban, Malcolm's disabled childhood friend, who was born with only one lung and uses a wheelchair.
• David Anthony Higgins as Craig Feldspar, Reese's close friend and Lois's longtime coworker at the Lucky Aide retail drugstore, where he is now the manager.
• Gary Anthony Williams as Abe Kenarban, Hal and Lois's friend and Stevie's father.
• Eric Nenninger as Eric Hanson, a former cadet at Marlin Academy, the military school where Francis was sent, who moved to Alaska with him.
• Arjay Smith as Ken Finley, a former cadet at Marlin Academy.

In 2016, Bryan Cranston openly expressed interest in doing a reunion.^[2] In 2021, Frankie Muniz, while speaking on Steve-O's podcast, revealed that Cranston was writing a script for a movie reunion and that the entire cast was ready to return except for one hold out, though he kept the identity confidential. In December 2023, it was suggested that the hold out was the creator of the show, Linwood Boomer, during Muniz's appearance on Mayim Bialik's^[3] podcast and that he would only give his blessing if two specific previous writers were on board.^[4]

In December 2024, it was announced that a four-episode revival was in the works for Disney+ with Muniz, Cranston and Kaczmarek set to reprise their roles. It will follow Malcolm and his daughter as Hal and Lois demand their presence for their 40th wedding anniversary party.^[5] Initially, the project had been pitched as a two-hour movie before being consolidated into four 30-minute episodes for the channel.^[6] In March 2025, it was revealed that Berfield and Masterson are set to reprise their roles, while Erik Per Sullivan was replaced by Caleb Ellsworth-Clark as Dewey. Further casting decisions were also revealed with the additions of Anthony Timpano (Jamie), Vaughan Murrae (as new sibling Kelly), Kiana Madeira (as Malcolm's girlfriend Tristan) and Keeley Karsten (as Malcolm's daughter Leah).^[7]

Principal photography began on April 13, 2025, at Vancouver Film Studios, and wrapped on May 16, with Michael Weaver serving as the cinematographer.^[8][9][10]

The four-episode miniseries will premiere on Hulu in 2026, but Disney has not confirmed a release schedule.

• Malcolm in the Middle: Life's Still Unfair at IMDb