This major development for the show comes hot on the heels of the tentative agreement reached for the resolution of the five-month-long writers strike.
The Office is centered on the employees of a fictional paper and stationery company in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and according to writers
Matthew Belloni and
Jonathan Handel its return is imminent. In an article for
Puck News, the pair speculated that original showrunner
Greg Daniels will return to revamp the series. They wrote, “Greg Daniels is set to do a reboot of
The Office, for instance. Disney’s Dana Walden will finally be able to announce the return of her BFF Ryan Murphy from Netflix. A ton of high-profile movie scripts will come in. The industry will chug back to normal.”
The news of a reboot came as part of a broader conversation regarding what projects and deals will emerge once the strike officially ends. News of this reboot might not come as a surprise to some given that there had been rumors from both cast members and executives at the NBC alike. The perception around a reboot has ranged from the optimistic to the pessimistic depending on the individual. Daniels has been one of the optimists. Speaking to Collider in 2022, the showrunner said, “I can’t tell whether fans would want more of it, and when I say more of it, I don’t think it would be the same characters.” He adds, “I think 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. But I don’t know if that would be something people would want or not, it’s hard to tell.”
