Bryan Cranston Has Ideas For a Big Screen Revival of THE OFFICE
Bryan Cranston recently showed up on Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey’s latest episode of The Office Ladies podcast. Cranston directed a Season 9 episode of The Office titled “Work Bus,” and while on the show he shared that he has ideas for a big-screen revival of the hit comedy series. That’s right, Cranston wants a full-on Office movie! He said:
“Let’s say that there’s not a reboot series, but what if there was a movie? Something to where we can see where these people are. These people in the entire cast that we’re curious about. We wondered at the end, where did they go? What did become of them?”
Fischer and Kinsey seemed like they were all for it. Kinsey said: “I would do it. I would do it for my kids, because I think they would think that’s fun.”
Fischer added: “I mean, if [showrunner] Greg [Daniels] did it, because I would trust it. You know? As long as Greg is writing it and he’s in charge of it, then I say yes.”
Cranston went on to say that he’d have a minor role: “I just want to be an extra in it. I would be an extra in it. I would be some guy. I’d be a crossing guard or something like that. Just something.”
Kinsey went a little bit further and added: “Maybe you’re like one of Dwight’s hired hands on Schrute Farms.”
There has been talk of a series revival of The Office, and when addressing that, Greg Daniels said: "Well, I think that it's very speculative. The fact that it kind of blew up based on one line in a Puck piece was kind of cool, I guess, in the sense that the fans still care a lot. But the thing I would say is, when there's something to announce, I will definitely announce it."
Daniels also shared that it's "not impossible" for something to happen, but he certainly doesn’t want to make a hasty decision and let down the fanbase. Daniels has also said in the past that should The Office continue in some capacity, "it would just be sort of like an extension of the universe, you know what I mean, like the way [The] Mandalorian is like an extension of 'Star Wars.'"
"It was such a perfect thing that I would hesitate to open it up. We got the chance to end it the way we wanted to end it. It wasn't like we were interrupted in the middle of a run or something. So in a sense it's completely an artistic whole. But, that said, I don't know, the cast every now and then talks about getting back together in some form, but I don't see it being a reboot like the way Will & Grace was rebooted."
But, Daniels explained why he feels it would be a mistake to try and revive it, saying: “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 Office is one of those shows that doesn’t need a revival, but if it did happen, would you rather see it done as a series or a film?