A The Office reboot is reportedly in the works, with the original American showrunner attached to return.
The news about the reboot came in the context of mentioning all the projects and deals that are going to be announced once the writers’ strike officially ends. There’s no word yet on casting.
it would be set in the same overall universe but not necessarily feature the same characters. However, some The Office cast members, including John Krasinski and Mindy Kaling, have expressed they’d be open to revisiting their famous roles if the circumstances were right.
If it’s something akin to How I Met Your Father, I could be on board. Not so much in style or tone surely, but taking the same skeleton that worked in the original and applying it to new people (and in this case, to a new location too). I think it would be a bummer to just go back to Dunder Mifflin Scranton and rehash all those characters. Workplace comedy isn’t so far out there, real workplaces have become even more absurd over the last ten years, and if it has light callbacks to the original but can do its own thing too, then I’ll check it out.
That’s the optimist in me. We’ll see how hard he gets bodyslammed when this comes to fruition!
It’s almost certainly going to just inundate the viewer with canned punchlines about work from home, COVID, and Zoom.
Literally nothing new and nothing even funny.