B.J. Novak Reveals His Thoughts on a Reboot of 'The Office'

B.J. Novak is opening up about the fate of The Office.The 43-year-old star got candid on Deadline‘s Crew Call podcast about the possibility of a revival of the hit TV series

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During the conversation, he was asked about the NBC show, in which he starred as Ryan Howard.“I don’t know contractually, but I know spiritually, it’s a pure Greg Danielsthing.

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Everyone knows he is the person who controls the rights to The Office, spiritually, creatively the American Office,” he said

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“Definitely you wouldn’t get everyone back together, that ship has sailed,” he added of a potential revival cast.

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“I think it’s more if there’s anything to mine creatively that’s fresh. I think it needs to be approached as an artistic decision, not as a financial decision.

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I worry that there’s so much financial pressure, understandably, to mine this precious metal in the ground called The Office reboot, spinoff or whatever,” he continued.

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“The Office originally was done for the opposite of money. It looked to all of us in that writers room as the most unlucrative stupid decision, to make a dreary, fake documentary

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