Drake Bell desires a ‘Drake & Josh’ reunion with TV brother Josh Peck

Drake Bell has some concepts for a reunion with Josh Peck.

The Amanda Present actor lately mentioned a possible new collaboration together with his Nickelodeon costar — however it would not be a continuation of their beloved sitcom Drake & Josh.

“I might like to,” Bell stated in an interview with The Patriot-Information. “We have talked about it. However I additionally did not need to do it when everybody was doing the reboots.”

Nickelodeon actually has a precedent for producing direct follow-ups to the sequence that made Bell and Peck teen stars. It has revived a number of of its properties from the Nineties and 2000s with their authentic casts, together with Good Burger, Zoey 101, and iCarly, the latter of which starred Drake & Josh‘s Miranda Cosgrove. Nevertheless, Bell is not eager about that mannequin and rejects the thought of “let’s do a reboot as a result of everybody’s doing reboots.” He thinks a D&J reunion ought to take another method. “If we’ll do one thing, it must be extra particular,” he stated. “Let’s hit ’em with a bang as an alternative of, ‘Oh, one other reboot.'”

Bell would like to crew again up with Peck on a brand new venture. “I do not suppose I might do us taking part in the characters from the present, or having [Cosgrove’s] Meg,” he stated. “I believe, fortunately for us, it is our names, so we are able to nonetheless play Drake and Josh. However I believe it would be funnier if we go on to doing different buddy comedies, you realize? One thing that’s sort of a shock, a little bit completely different. It will be extra fascinating.”

Bell lately re-entered the highlight when he appeared on this 12 months’s Investigation Documentary sequence Quiet on Set: The Darkish Facet of Youngsters TV. Within the doc, the actor spoke publicly for the primary time about being sexually abused by Amanda Present dialogue coach Brian Peck (no relation to Josh), who in the end served time in jail after being convicted of abusing Bell as a minor.

“There’s been a ton of assist,” Bell advised The Patriot-Information whereas discussing the sequence. “And when you’re diving into one thing like that, you’re very trepidatious. It is an emotional curler coaster. You do not know how individuals are going to react, or what is going on to occur, or what the aftermath goes to be.”

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After rising as fan favorites on The Amanda Present, Bell and Josh Peck spent 4 seasons because the titular step-siblings on Drake & Josh, from 2004 to 2007. The present additionally spawned a TV film, 2006’s Drake & Josh Go Hollywood, and two one-off specials.

Following the conclusion of the Nickelodeon sitcom, Bell primarily centered on his music profession and voice performing, taking part in Peter Parker in a lot of animated Spider-Man tasks throughout the 2010s. In the meantime, Peck starred in TV reveals like How I Met Your Father and Grandfathered (on which Bell guest-starred) and in motion pictures like Pink Daybreak and Oppenheimer.

Though some followers have speculated about unhealthy blood between the 2 stars when Peck didn’t instantly make a public assertion about Quiet on Set, Bell has reiterated that they are nonetheless on good phrases. “I simply need you guys to know that he has reached out to me, and it has been very delicate,” Bell stated in a TikTok shortly after the documentary’s launch. “He has reached out to speak with me and assist me work by way of this, and has been actually, actually nice.”