Hairspray Film Director Shankman Helms GLEE Episode, Boyle Confirmed to Guest Star!

Zap2it reports on some upcoming GLEE details, shared by executive producer/creator Ryan Murphy at a press conference today.

On upcoming guest directors, Murphy reveals: "Adam Shankman is doing one, I think that's great. I think he's doing Episode 8 or 9 of the first 10." As for future GLEE-helmers, he says, "I'm just now getting calls from big movie directors who love the show. I can't say who they are obviously. I have talked to Baz Luhrmann about it. I love him and he loves the show, but his schedule is so crazy."

The Britney Spears episode has begun production. According to Murphy, "we're sort of doing an episode not only of her music but also her public image. All the kids on the show, many of them went into singing and dancing because of her. At the heart of it, it's a show designed to show off the skills of Heather Morris, who plays Brittany ... [Morris] was a back up dancer for Beyonce, and her dream was to be an actress and she's such a great actress because she doesn't know what she's doing in some weird way. She's so natural and funny. I just did a scene this morning with Heather. I think she's got incredible craft. She has a great work ethic. All dancers do."

On the upcoming ROCKY HORROR episode, Murphy reveals, "My favorite thing to do is to torture the boys, and claim I don't know who's going to be wearing those gold lamee briefs because they're now all on diets, they're all in terror that I'm going to tell them that they're the one that has to get naked ... We are going to see 'Time Warp.'" Murphy tells us we'll see the episode by "Halloween. It's the third week in October, it's Episode 5. I'm directing it."

As for Susan Boyle's appearance, Murphy says, "The story I want to do for our Christmas episode is have Kurt give her some sort of fantastic makeover and have her sing a song from her album on the show. She'll be playing a character."

For more information about a Brittany/Santana kiss, Terri's return, Kurt's boyfriend, and more, see the full article here.Television's most award-winning new series, GLEE was recently honored with 19 Emmy nominations; a Peabody Award; a Golden Globe for Best Television Series, Comedy or Musical; a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series; and a People's Choice Award for Favorite New TV Comedy. The music from GLEE is an international sensation with "Glee: The Music, Volume 1" and "Glee: The Music, Volume 2" topping charts in Australia, the U.K., New Zealand, Ireland and Canada. In the U.S., over 4.5 million songs have been downloaded, and both albums have been certified Gold for sales in excess of 500,000 units.

GLEE follows an optimistic teacher who - against all odds and a malicious cheerleading coach - inspires McKinley High's Glee Club to conquer the world one singing competition at a time. GLEE stars Dianna Agron, Chris Colfer, Jessalyn Gilsig, Jane Lynch, Jayma Mays, Kevin McHale, Lea Michele, Cory Monteith, Matthew Morrison, Amber Riley, Mark Salling and Jenna Ushkowitz.

GLEE is produced by Ryan Murphy Television in association with 20th Century Fox Television. Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk and Ian Brennan are co-creators of the series. Murphy, Falchuk and Dante di Loreto serve as executive producers, while Ian Brennan serves as co-executive producer.