Jason Alexander confirms no one knows anything about this Seinfeld reunion

If a Seinfeld reunion were to happen, we’re pretty sure George Costanza would be the last to know. The hopelessly self-absorbed, solipsistic New York Yankees executive would only bog down the planning with questions about himself anyway. But George Costanza isn’t real, and Jason Alexander, the actor who performed the harrowing tales of Costanza for 170 episodes, doesn’t know anything about the reunion either. Speaking to Extra outside a celebrity poker tournament, Alexander confirmed, “no one called me.”

“There is only one reason for that rumor. Apparently, at the end of some stand-up thing, [Jerry] went, ‘Larry [David] and I are thinking of something.’ Good for you. I don’t know anything about it. No one called me,” Alexander said in a joking and warm-spirited tone. “Apparently, they don’t need George, and they may not need Elaine because Julia [Louis-Dreyfus] and I went, ‘Do you know anything about this? I don’t know anything about this,’ and I just talked to Michael [Richards] the other day, and I don’t think he knew anything about it.”

So what is this Seinfeld “reboot”? Well, as of now, the only Seinfeld reunion occurred roughly 13 years ago on Curb Your Enthusiasm. The reunion certainly provided fans still feeling cheated by the original Seinfeld finale (which remains way better than its reputation) with a satisfying conclusion to the Seinfeld story. Will there be more? Well, in the words of Jerry Seinfeld, “We already screwed up one finale,” why tempt fate and screw up the good reunion?

Or maybe—just maybe—the thing that Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld are working on is not a Seinfeld thing. Perhaps it has something to do with that Pop-Tart movie Seinfeld supposedly shot last year. One year ago, Seinfeld told The Hollywood Reporter that Netflix saw the movie and “then we’ll see where it’s at next week.” Though we’ve blown past his “early next year” release, we’re still curious about this one.

“There is no story,” Seinfeld said. “But there are a couple of elements that are true that we use to begin the story, which is that Post came up with this idea, and Kellogg’s heard about it and said, ‘We have to do the same thing.’ And then I kind of told the story as The Right Stuff with NASA versus the Soviet Union.”

We have yet to learn what any of that means, but boy, would we like to see it someday.