BLUE BLOODS is coming to an end, and star Tom Selleck already has some ideas about what his next project might be.
“It looks like now I might have to write [a script for another movie],” Selleck said in an interview with TV Insider, adding that he might reprise his role as police chief Jesse Stone.
He made a series of JESSE STONE movies for CBS and Hallmark, starring in them and serving as a co-writer on the last four installments.
“It wouldn’t be a final one because everybody loves it,” Selleck said of a potential new JESSE STONE movie. “Jesse is a great character, and it would be fascinating to find out where he is quite a few years later.”
However, don’t expect a new movie any time soon — Selleck made it clear he needs to “regroup” following the end of BLUE BLOODS.
“I don’t know what’s next, but assuming the phone doesn’t stop ringing, I’m going to keep working,” he said.
The actor made similar statements in an interview with CBS. When asked what he sees in the future, Selleck joked, “Hopefully, work!”
“As an actor, you never lose — I don’t lose, anyway — that sense that every time I finish a job, it’s my last job,” he continued. “I like the fact that there’s no excuses! You just go to work and you do the work. And I have a lot of reverence for what I call ‘the work,’ and I love it. And I’d like to keep doing it.”
Selleck has previously spoken about the final season of BLUE BLOODS, explaining that he is “frustrated” by CBS’ decision to cancel the show.
“My frustration is the show was always taken for granted because it performed from the get-go,” he said, pointing out that BLUE BLOODS scored the No. 6 spot on a list of the top 100 TV shows of 2023-2024. “So how do I feel? It’s going to take a long time to sort all of this out.”
Movieguide® previously reported on Selleck’s feelings on the end of BLUE BLOODS:
Tom Selleck is opening up about his frustration with BLUE BLOODS ending and sharing what he’ll miss from the show.
“My last scene was ironically family dinner; that was also the first scene I shot on the show 15 years ago! I’m not going to tell you everything about the last episode…but the family dinner kind of reunites the Reagan family,” he told TV Insider this month. “Erin’s daughter Nicky (Sami Gayle) was there and so was Jack (Tony Terraciano) Danny’s older son. Everybody agreed with me that we should close the set for the family dinner and not exploit that. Most of them had four more days to shoot, but not me.”
After the last scene was shot, there were tears all around.
“We were shooting for hours and all of a sudden, they said ‘Well, that was the last shot.’ I always wanted to say this poem, ‘Love Is Not All’ by Edna St. Vincent Millay. There was crying and there was an enormous amount of hugs. Donnie was really broken up; he didn’t say much.”
“Bridget spoke. Just about everybody said something,” he continued. “Vanessa [Ray] was pretty beat up by the experience.”