Steve Carell and John Krasinski have their reservations about the upcoming reboot of The Office, especially given that they haven’t been consulted over the project, per an insider.
Original cast member Jenna Fischer also feels the way Steve and John do.
“The big issue here is that Steve, John and other members of the original cast have legitimate concerns about how this reboot can possibly devalue the original series, which is a massive draw on streaming and still has a ton of cultural currency,” an insider said, per Radar Online.
“It’s only natural for her to be suspicious about the new version,” the insider noted of Fischer.
“You don’t see the surviving casts of Friends and Seinfeld going through this kind of annoyance because, for whatever reason, those shows are seen as off-limits to be rebooted,” they added.
“Why are THEY exempt but The Office Isn’t? The case can be made that since the U.S. version of The Office was a remake of an original U.K. comedy, all bets are off – but it still leaves a bad taste,” explained the tipster.
The mole revealed: “For Steve, John and Jenna, the wish is that NBC had just let the original continue to draw audiences on streaming, like a lot of classic sitcoms.”
“It’s no surprise that they’ve turned their backs on the very idea of a reboot. It must give them pleasure that the press is not fully on board with it either,” they concluded.
The original The Office cast included Steve Carell, John Krasinski, Jenna Fischer, Ed Helms, Erin Hannon, and more. The show ran for nine seasons from 2005 through 2013.
