The co-creator of The Office U.S. has said he wouldn't want to reboot the show but would be more interested in creating a spin-off akin to what The Mandalorian is to Star Wars.
Speaking to The Wrap, Greg Daniels made clear there are no spin-off or reboot talks actually happening but, if there were, he'd rather make a "sister show" instead of recasting the likes of Michael Scott, Dwight Schrute, and the other iconic characters.
"I don’t like to think of anything as a reboot," Daniels said. “I feel like we ended that story beautifully. The characters had closure. I would never want to redo that same show with a different cast, because I think we got the luckiest cast, the best cast ever in TV, to do that show. So the notion of a reboot is not of interest.
"The notion of maybe something like the way The Mandalorian is a new show in the Star Wars universe, you know what I mean? Something like the notion of this documentary crew doing a documentary about a different subject.
“That, I think, could be intriguing and creative. But I don’t even know what you would call that. I don’t know if that’s like a sister show or something. I don’t know what the term is. But it doesn’t feel like reboot would be the appropriate term for that."
There is irony to this, of course, as The Office U.S. is a reboot and adaptation in itself, based on the UK show of the same name. The base characters and storylines in early seasons were largely based on the original show — David Brent became Michael Scott, Tim Canterbury became Jim Halpert, Gareth Keenan became Dwight Schrute, and so on — but the U.S. series became much more successful and eventually spanned 201 episodes compared to the original's 14.
The Office is also getting a female-led remake in Australia, with Prime Video creating the show starring standup comedian Felicity Ward, who will play the manager of packaging company Flinley Craddick.
Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He'll talk about The Witcher all day.
